Community Features & Events
Navigating Colorado Rapids is career high-point for Meath native steeped in sport
Pádraig Smith made the journey from the banks of the River Boyne, in County Meath, to the Mile High city of Denver, Colorado in 2015, first as the ...
April 06, 2023
by Peter Nolan
Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: The Irish builder shaping Windy City skyline
Mike Meagher is President of McHugh Construction, and one of those responsible for most of the iconic buildings that make up our Chicago skyline, i...
April 06, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
The Skulls of Inishbofin
On February 22, Trinity College Dublin made an historic announcement that it would return 13 skulls stored for over 130 years in the Old Anatomy Mu...
March 20, 2023
by By Pegi Vail
Community Features & Events
A Holiday That All the World Can Share
Growing up in Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day was always welcome. It was first and foremost welcome because it was a day off from school. March 17 was a...
March 16, 2023
by Ray O'Hanlon
News
We have lift-off - celebrating St Patrick's Day in Rocket City, Alabama
St Patrick's Day in Alabama has it all - and then some. In Huntsville, home to NASA, You can have $5 Irish car bombs to accompany your early-doors ...
March 15, 2023
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
News
Born and bread in Belfast, Brendan brings a taste of Ireland to U.S.
A Belfast man is bringing a little taste of Ireland to the States this week in the run-up to the St Patrick’s Day celebrations. Brendan Neeson is t...
March 14, 2023
by Anthony Neeson
Community Features & Events
TRASNA MHEIRICEÁ: An International Women's Day salute to Natalie O'Shea of the Twin Cities Irish centre
In the fabric of Minnesota’s history and culture is embroidered the name of someone to be celebrated not only on International Women’s Day but on e...
March 08, 2023
by Aileen Gorman Leong
News
CHICAGO CALLING: Hometown hero who has the 'plumb' job at Windy City St Patrick's parade
“The plumber protects the health of our nation.” Albert Einstein 1954. Hizzoner Mayor Richard J. Daley asked his childhood friend Stephen Bailey, B...
March 07, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Culture
Artists cast loving light on style and soul of sidelined South Bronx
They met “40 something” years ago, Rigoerto Torres told me, speaking of himself and his partner in art John Ahearn, while we chatted one recent aft...
February 23, 2023
by Peter Nolan
Community Features & Events
A Man, a Border, a People
The story of Sean Quinn is a story about the Border and its people. I was born in Enniskillen and, living in the shadow of the industrial complex t...
February 17, 2023
by By Trevor Birney
Community Features & Events
Profile: Buffalo's Jack of all trades with finger on political pulse
Attorney, lobbyist, political aide to Chuck Schumer, former political candidate, author, adjunct faculty member at his alma mater Canisius College,...
February 13, 2023
by Peter Nolan
Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: Áine's beating the ancestral drum, from Tyrone to Tinley Park!
Fans of “Derry Girls”, the hilarious TV show out of the North of Ireland that ran for years with the wacky antics of a group of Catholic school gir...
February 13, 2023
by Mike Houlihan