One warm summer evening last year, I picked up a first edition of The Country Girl from the bookshelf in a house where I was staying and I did not leave my place by the window until I had read it from ...

CARDINAL Timothy Michael Dolan, Archbishop of New York, shared a video this month in which he appears with Sister Mary Bosco in Tullamore, Co. Offaly. The 100-year-old Irish nun, a Sister of Mercy, ...

The President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins paid tribute to the First Nations of Canada and Native Americans for their ...

TAOISEACH Michel Martin has offered his condolences to the family of a garda who lost his life i… News from Ireland and happenings in Irish America..

A WOMAN in her 70s has died following a collision involving a bicycle and a tractor in Co. Clare. The incident occurred at around 12.45pm on Saturday on the L3180 at Toonagh, Tulla. Gardaí have now ...

ONE of the two teenagers who died after getting into difficulty in the sea in Co. Donegal last week has been described as ‘a true ambassador of hope’. Emmanuel Familola, 16, died in the tragedy in ...

Thomas Moore was the most popular poet of his day. His “Irish Melodies,” arranged and sung to traditional tunes, were translated into many languages and won him international fame. He was particularly ...

POLICE have named two men who died in separate road traffic collisions on Friday as Paddy McDonald and Philip Taylor. Mr McDonald, 62, was riding a bicycle when it was involved in a collision with a ...

COUNCILLOR Ryan Hack has been elected as the new Mayor of Brent, becoming the borough’s First Citizen at the Council’s annual general meeting held earlier this month. At 26, Cllr Hack is the youngest ...

A WOMAN from Co. Donegal has died in a two-vehicle collision in Co. Tyrone. Bernadette (Bernie) Cranley, 82, from Lifford died in the incident outside Omagh on Saturday afternoon. Ms Cranley was ...

Hard to believe that it’s already a year since the days of Morrison Madness, when tens of thousands of Irish (as well as people of other nationalities) mailed over 14 million applications for the ...

A WOMAN arrested in Belfast after going on the run for two years to avoid sentencing for drug-related offences has been jailed. Emily MacArthur, 34, of no fixed address, failed to appear at Swindon ...