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THE DEPARTMENT of State recently announced it plans to eliminate funding for an overseas post-graduate scholarship program named in honor of Senato...

It was a most friendly and non-amphibious landing. The U.S. Navy landed in the back yard of Ireland's ambassador to the U.S. Michael Collins last w...

The men and women of the Ancient Order of Hibernians are gathering in Verona, New York this week for the order's 96th biennial national convention....

US-Ireland Alliance head Trina Vargo may or may not embrace the irony, but after taking swipes at the influence, or lack thereof, of Irish American...

Twins Alba, seated left, and Anastasia Somoza, with their mother Mary behind her, personal-care aides Barbara Henderson and Nicola Swinehart, and f...

WITH the Republic's economy still taking a hammering, a new bill by the Irish government aims to ease the pressure on those declared bankrupt. The ...

By Peter McDermott Highgate Cemetery in London is famous as the final resting place of Karl Marx. But Jimmy Burns (pictured above), a writer for th...

A DUBLIN woman found guilty of stealing more than €2 million from U2 bassist Adam Clayton used some of the money for flights to America. Carol Hawk...

The US-Ireland Alliance is not taking no from the U.S. state Department as an answer. The organization, which runs the Mitchell Scholarships progra...

The first time that IF caught up with Tom McGrath the catching up but was more metaphorical than literal. Tom was running a thousand miles for Sloa...

This handshake would have been unimaginable just a handful of years ago. Sinn Féin is describing the decision to agree to today's historic meeting ...

In what is a clear blow for the enormous prestige in Ireland enjoyed by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, the U.S. State Department has moved to...