I’ve often thought that us Irish have a morbid fascination with death. Perhaps this is why we do funerals so well. Nobody does a funeral like the Irish. We manage to combine the right amount of ...

CARBONDALE — Music, dancing, food and games. It’s a celebration of all things Celtic at this weekend’s Southern Illinois Irish Festival. The Irish Festival runs from 12-8 p.m. Saturday and 12-4 p.m.

Sir, - Hugh Linehan hits the right note in his reflections about the comfort that media can provide (“Why scrapping of Sunday Miscellany’s trumpet sounds such a bum note”, Media, April 28th).

A brother of Scarlett Faulkner, who died in hospital three weeks after she was allegedly assaulted in Co Tipperary, has died two days after her funeral in Limerick. Jason Faulkner, who was in his 30s, ...

The funeral of Jason Faulkner is taking place in St Munchin’s Church - the same church where Scarlett’s funeral Mass took place just seven days ago. Mourners are expected to gather in their hundreds ...

Christophe Emanuel Jones didn’t have much family and just a small group of friends, but his visitation service Tuesday drew a roomful of strangers honoring the Elgin man’s life and his service in the ...

Funeral arrangements for Jason Faulkner, a brother of Scarlett Faulkner who passed away two days after he was a pallbearer for her funeral, have been announced by his heartbroken family. Jason, in his ...

IFTA winner Gary Lydon will be laid to rest on Thursday, his family have confirmed. The award-winning Banshees of Inisherin star passed away “suddenly” at his home in Wexford on Thursday, April 30.

A teenager who died in a road tragedy helped save the lives of five people through his organs being donated, his funeral heard. Mourners were told that Conor Coleman’s "legacy will live on” in those ...

Ali Dunworth explores the culture, customs, and craic surrounding pints in Ireland in her book "A Compendium of Irish Pints". In this extract, she explores the complex relationship between the Irish ...

A program featuring lively traditional Irish dance music will be presented at Academy Village Tuesday as the Arizona Senior Academy's weekly concert. Scatter the Dust, a trio of Tucson musicians ...

Despite the location having been closed for more than three decades, the West Seattle community felt it was not only appropriate, but necessary, to hold a funeral for the long-closed Taco Bell. The ...