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Celtic Woman. Boston --- As luck would have it, Massachusetts has been green all winter, thanks to the mild weather here in New England. And now th...

A recent editorial argued: “Is the question of contraception coverage—something most American Catholics already have, and which the bishops have sa...

Oscar at the Divis. Oorlagh and Terry George, along with their Oscars, atop the Divis Flats in West Belfast.Belfast Oscar-winner Terry George has m...

Human remains have been unearthed from under the roots system of this tree at Duffy's Cut. They were buried with little or no ceremony 180 years ag...

Congressman Donald Payne. Congressman Donald Payne, one of the nation's leading African American legislators who died this week from colon cancer a...

Martin at the ard fheis. Thousands of people have attended a Dublin jobs fair advertising overseas work opportunities, this as Fianna Fáil simultan...

[caption id="attachment_70132" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Some lady leprechauns take a smoke break."][/caption] Pub crawls didn't rep...

Cops were more in evidence this year than in parade years. Urban Outfitters is not alone among major retail corporations flogging clothing that man...

Cameron in D.C. next week. Three of the most prominent Irish-American organizations have issued a joint statement on the Boston College archive cas...

A husband and wife have been charged with the murder of a man who was shot dead in Belfast last week. Charles Stephen Valliday, 40, and Julie-Ann V...

They stared down at us from the walls of musty parlors. Seven somber men, faces cased with conviction: the signatories of the 1916 Proclamation. Th...

Terry and Oorlagh George back in Belfast. Film director Terry George has returned to his native County Down following his Oscar triumph in Hollywoo...