TAOISEACH Micheál Martin has praised the global influence of the Guinness brand while manufacturers Diageo unveiled a new brewery in Kildare. The drinks manufacturer formerly opened their new €300m ...

The police force believes Mr Murray spent a large part of St. Patrick’s Day 2009 in the Headline Bar on Clanbrassil Street in Dublin 8, before making his way towards his home at Rockbrook Cottages, ...

BELFAST CITY COUNCIL has unveiled a plaque marking the spot of the city’s last Famine grave, where more than 10,000 people were buried. The burial ground on Donegall Road marks the site where people ...

A YOUNG man has died following a road traffic collision on Co. Wexford. The incident occurred on the L4016 near Glenour, Adamstown at around 9.20pm on Friday. The man, aged in his 20s, was pronounced ...

THE American Irish Historical Society in New York has been showcasing the depth of Irish influence in the United States, with materials in its care stretching back more than 400 years. Mark Lindenburg ...

A MAN has been seriously injured following an early-morning road traffic collision in Co. Mayo. The collision, involving a car and a pedestrian, occurred on the Moneen Road in Castlebar at around ...

A BOY aged 15 is among three people arrested in connection with an attack on a police station in Co. Armagh. On March 30, a delivery driver was hijacked by two masked men, one of whom was armed with a ...

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 ...

‘In Banbridge Town in the County Down One morning last July, From a boreen green came a sweet colleen, And she smiled as she passed me by.' What is absolutely, positively true about Greer Garson is ...

Eileen Collins, the first female to command a space mission, is a determined down-to-earth woman who never let anything stand in the way of her dream. August 1999: NASA, Texas: Eileen Collins looks a ...

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 ...

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 ...