A MAN who fled to Ireland after fatally stabbing another man in Leeds last year has been jailed for 14 years. Alfie Milburn, 20, fled to Dublin and then Belfast following the death of 19-year-old ...
GARDAÍ are appealing for witnesses to come forward after a young man died following an assault in Dublin city centre. Garda were called to an incident in Grafton Street at around 3am yesterday morning ...
GARDAÍ have appealed for information after a man in his 60s died in a single-vehicle collision in Co. Roscommon. The incident is believed to have occurred early this morning at Carrigans Park in ...
THE Irish Government has pledged to reduce suicide rates across the country over the next ten years. Launching its Connecting for Life 2026-2035 strategy this week, it has committed to a ...
TRIBUTES have been paid to Tyrone football great Frank McGuigan, who has passed away at the age of 71. The Ardboe clubman won four Tyrone titles with the Rossas and two Ulster titles with the Red ...
THE family of a teenager who died while swimming at a beach in Dublin have said they are “heartbroken” to lose their “beloved daughter”. Abbie Carmody-Pepper died “tragically whilst swimming at Howth” ...
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 ...
As the thousandth anniversary of the Viking discovery of America will soon be celebrated in the year 2000, Thomas J. Martin and Donald V. Mehus examine the role that the Irish, with their own long ...
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 ...
This exchange in a novel about college sports in the 1920s catches the prejudices that many Americans of the time held toward citizens of Irish-Catholic descent. However, unlike other immigrant groups ...
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 ...
The Choctaw “Trail of Tears,” tribe raised money for Irish Hunger relief. Visiting New York in 1989, Don Mullan, the then-director of Action From Ireland (AFrI), a Dublin-based human rights ...