When Shivaun O’Casey first met Irish-born Nobel Literature Prize winner Samuel Beckett, she was a shy young girl of 16 studying acting in London. In the 32 years that have followed that meeting, she ...

Cohan’s father, Jerry Cohan, was widely known as one of the best traditional Irish dancers in all of New England. According to the Cohan biographer, John McCabe, Jerry Cohan’s specialty was working ...

TROUBLES survivors gathered in London for an event marking the anniversary of an organisation launched to support peace, reconciliation and healing. Troubles, Tragedy and Trauma Northern Ireland UK ...

A FIRE which ripped through the site of a former convent in Co. Down is believed to have been started deliberately. The former Convent of Mercy building in Downpatrick went up in flames on the evening ...

PARENTS in Ireland are being urged to swap their disposable nappies for reusable cloth ones. An initiative launched at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin is seeing new parents being given vouchers to ...

A MAN has been arrested following a fire at an Islamic prayer centre in Dublin. Gardaí were called to the Al Madinah Hall in Talbot Street where a fire broke out at around 3.35pm yesterday afternoon.

Remember that last scene in Yankee Doodle Dandy? An elderly George M. Cohan, played by an artificially aged Jimmy Cagney comes from an audience with Franklin Roosevelt. The U.S. has just entered World ...

DUBLIN: Now comes Sean Doherty, former Minister for Justice in the Irish government, the point man in a major scandal in the early 1980s involving the illegal tapping of phones of leading journalists.

There is a lovely story told about a day in the hospitable south of Ireland when a couple of American tourists rolled into the car-park of Lahinch golf club in a gleaming, rented limo. When they asked ...

POLICE have appealed for information after a man sustained head injuries following a serious assault in Co. down. It was reported that a man had been attacked by several males in the James Street area ...

A MAN who died in a road traffic collision in Co. Antrim on Friday has been named by police as Matthew McIlroy. The 31-year-old passed away following a single-vehicle collision in Ballyclare. “Police ...

ACCORDING to the Central Statistics Office, over 35,000 Irish citizens returned to Ireland in 2025, with Britain remaining the main source for people considering a move back, but it’s not always as ...