THE WIFE of Ronnie Delany has died just two days after the Irish Olympic gold medallist’s funeral. Joan Delany passed away on Wednesday, a week after her husband’s death and just two days after his ...

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, ...

THE Washington Ireland Program (WIP) class of 2026 was announced this week. US Congressman Tim Kennedy made the announcement during a special event held at the University of Notre Dame’s office in ...

A NEW initiative has been launched this week to bring members of Ireland’s global diaspora closer together. Plans for the Shared Home Place: Diaspora Voices project were revealed in Boston while ...

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 Celtic cross that the Ladies’ Ancient Order of Hibernians Auxiliary dedicated to Great Hunger victims at the Cohasset Cemetery in Massachusetts. Her other books include: Black Abolitionists In ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The evolution of the Irish-American policeman – in real life and on screen. In the classic 1954 Looney Tunes cartoon entitled “Bugs and Thugs,” everybody’s favorite animated rabbit gets himself caught ...