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Molloy event will focus on '81 hunger strikes
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Molloy event will focus on '81 hunger strikes
The Molloy College Irish Studies Institute is this weekend hosting a discussion focusing on the 30th anniversary of the "Great Irish Hunger Strike....
Probe into diversity visa snafu
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Probe into diversity visa snafu
The U.S. State Department is reportedly investigating just how more than 20,000 people were wrongly told that that they had been selected as finali...
1916 tricolor to go on display in New York
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1916 tricolor to go on display in New York
The tricolor that flew over O'Connell Street's General Post Office during the Easter Rising in 1916 will be given today to the American Irish Histo...
Hire me or I emigrate
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Hire me or I emigrate
A Galway man unemployed for almost a year has used an innovative strategy in an attempt to find a new job. Féilim Mac An Iomaire from Connemara, wh...
200 deported on government's last day
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200 deported on government's last day
It isn't always Ireland of the welcomes. Former Fianna Fáil minister Brendan Smith signed 200 deportation orders on the cabinet's last day in offic...
River Weir was a death trap for canoeists
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River Weir was a death trap for canoeists
A river weir in which two men drowned on a canoeing trip is impassable, accident investigators have found. Experts reviewing the deaths of Philip K...
Irish cycle team will cross America in Emer's memory
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Irish cycle team will cross America in Emer's memory
The Team Youghal cycling team has launched its planned "Race Across America Cycle" in the County Cork town, famous as the setting for the classic 1...
Glengarriff hosting Maureen O'Hara classic film festival
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Glengarriff hosting Maureen O'Hara classic film festival
The Maureen O'Hara Classic Film Festival is set to roll next week and will run from June 17 to 26. The festival will open on Friday June 17 in The ...
McCourt Limerick chair to aid memoir writers
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McCourt Limerick chair to aid memoir writers
A $1 million campaign honoring the name of the late Frank McCourt is aiming to underpin the Frank McCourt Chair in Creative Writing at the Universi...
Just another Face(book) in the crowd
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Just another Face(book) in the crowd
He may be one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, but the founder of a major social networking site managed to recently travel ar...
Famine monument dedicated in Jersey City
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Famine monument dedicated in Jersey City
The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Hudson County in New Jersey have erected and have dedicated a Famine Memorial Monument in the city's Lincoln Pa...
Fox secures CIIC post
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Fox secures CIIC post
The Coalition of Irish Immigration Centers in the U.S. has appointed Katie Fox as its new national coordinator. "We are looking forward to using Ka...

 

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