A MAN has been sentenced for drugs-related offences following an investigation into criminality linked to the New IRA. Ian Cotter from west Belfast was sentenced to a two-month custodial sentence, ...

SIX people died on Irish roads during the week around St Patrick’s Day. Gardaí conducted a nationwide policing operation from March 11 to March 18. During that period a total of six people died in ...

IRELAND’S Minister for EU Affairs has confirmed Ireland’s continued solidarity with Ukraine on St Patrick’s Day. Minister Thomas Byrne is in Kyiv this week where he took part in he first formal event ...

A MAN has died following an assault in Cork city. Gardaí are investigating the incident which happened in the Lower John Street/Knapps Square/Devonshire Street area yesterday (March 16). Gardaí and ...

THE family of Irish Oscar contender Jessie Buckley are on route to Los Angeles to attend this weekend’s Academy Awards ceremony. Aer Lingus has flown the actor’s parents Marina and Tim Buckley and her ...

A BOY who died in a collision in Belfast has been named. Mason Keilhauer was struck by a car on the Shankhill Road at around 7.25pm on March 7. The 11-year-old, from the Shankhill area, was taken to ...

The Comstock Lode in Nevada, uncovered in 1859 by two Irish laborers, ultimately produced more than $500 million worth of silver, a large share of which went to the Irish-American “Big Four” – James ...

Daniel O’Connell is remembered as the Liberator of Irish Catholics, but he also played a significant role in the movement to end slavery. On 23 May 2011, President Obama made an historic visit to the ...

Editor’s Introduction: The MacBride Principles aimed to secure the elimination of religious or anti-Catholic discrimination in the hiring process or employment practices of U.S. corporations with ...

The descendants of Irish people sold into slavery in the 1600s live in a close-knit community beset by poverty and ill health. During the winter of 1636, a ship bearing a consignment of 61 men and ...

Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason talks to Patricia Harty about her pride in her hometown, her career; the hard reality of work on the U.N. Security Council; and her new role as Ireland’s Ambassador to ...

It was a summer flood when our draft horse was caught in the river and the river smashed against stones. The sound of it to me was like the turning of locks. It was silage time and the water smelled ...