AN elderly woman who was involved in a collision in Armagh earlier this month has since died in hospital. The two-car collision happened on the Newry Road at around 10.30am on March 22. The woman, who ...

FIVE people were taken to hospital following a collision between a car and a van in Co. Westmeath. The incident happened on the afternoon of March 29, Gardaí have confirmed, while describing the ...

TRIBUTES have been paid following the death of one of Ireland’s best-known sports presenters Michael Lyster. Mr Lyster died yesterday morning (March 23) at the age of 71, it was confirmed in a ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to an eight-year-old boy from Co. Tyrone who passed away just weeks after meeting his football heroes. Odhrán McGirr, who was diagnosed last year with a rare form of cancer, ...

CYCLE lockers are being installed across Dublin this month in a bid to make the city a safer place for cyclists. A pilot project is underway where 40 such lockers will be placed in various locations ...

Sean Downes is an attorney based in Manhattan. Since 1985, he has been representing individuals who have sustained serious injuries in accidents, and has donated considerable time representing clients ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Daniel O’Connell is remembered as the Liberator of Irish Catholics, but he also played a significant role in the movement to end slavery. On 23 May 2011, President Obama made an historic visit to the ...

Seán MacBride’s career spans the history of independent Ireland. His father was executed by the British after the 1916 Rising, when Irish independence was first proclaimed. As a teenager, he fought in ...