A MAN has been extradited from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland where he is wanted in relation to a series of offences. The 54-year-old was extradited yesterday (May 19) in relation to 17 ...

TRIBUTES have been paid following the death of former President of the Camogie Association Liz Howard. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Iar-Uachtarán an Chumainn Camógaíochta, ...

POLICE are treating an attack on a Belfast taxi driver who was punched and spat at as a racially-motivated hate crime. The man was also subjected the racial slurs during the incident, which occurred ...

The 2009 documentary film Waveriders explored the little-known Irish roots of surfing. For Kelly Slater, one of the pro surfers featured, it was also a return to his ancestral roots. Currently raked ...

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 ...

Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason talks to Patricia Harty about her pride in her hometown, her career; the hard reality of work on the U.N. Security Council; and her new role as Ireland’s Ambassador to ...

It was a summer flood when our draft horse was caught in the river and the river smashed against stones. The sound of it to me was like the turning of locks. It was silage time and the water smelled ...

In 1876, a daring escape from an Australian prison colony by six Fenian prisoners was masterminded by the revolutionary and journalist John Boyle O’Reilly. The sailing triumph of the Catalpa and the ...

From the Civil War to Chicago’s Mercy Hospital, the extraordinary history of Irish nuns in health care. The Sisters of Mercy were the first women to go with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War ...

The Comstock Lode in Nevada, uncovered in 1859 by two Irish laborers, ultimately produced more than $500 million worth of silver, a large share of which went to the Irish-American “Big Four” – James ...

‘In Banbridge Town in the County Down One morning last July, From a boreen green came a sweet colleen, And she smiled as she passed me by.' What is absolutely, positively true about Greer Garson is ...

As you celebrate Labor Day weekend, consider the contribution that the Irish have made, and continue to make to the American labor movement. Peter “P.J.” McGuire the Father of Labor Day It was Peter ...