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Accused excused in Prince case arraignment
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Accused excused in Prince case arraignment
BOSTON - Lawyers for the teenagers accused of stalking and bullying Phoebe Prince for weeks before her suicide in January appeared in court Tuesday...
Quinn staff march in Cavan, Dublin
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Quinn staff march in Cavan, Dublin
Quinn Insurance company staff have staged marches in Dublin and Cavan to highlight job fears among the 2,800 workers after the Financial Regulator’...
Anglo chief attracts notice on Cape
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Anglo chief attracts notice on Cape
There’s no place like a home away from home, especially if you are being pursued by the media. But the media, Irish version, has caught up with for...
Anglo Ire-ish
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Anglo Ire-ish
While Catholic Church leaders have been on the defensive in recent weeks as a result of the pedophile scandal, the Archbishop of Dublin has emerged...
$cholar spat: US Ireland Alliance defends Mitchell program
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$cholar spat: US Ireland Alliance defends Mitchell program
The Mitchell Scholarship program and its sponsoring organization, the US-Ireland Alliance, was this week defending the pledge of Ireland’s politica...
Telling the story of the New York Irish Community
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Telling the story of the New York Irish Community
At the moment, I am spending my days reading about the history of the Irish in New York and conducting research. I meet with people on a regular ba...
Tough times require tough-minded art
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Tough times require tough-minded art
Tipperary-born Deirdre Scanlan, Casey's successor as Solas's lead vocalist, also sang conscience-pricking songs, such as Antje Duvekot's "Black Ann...
Wheels-o-the wisp
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Wheels-o-the wisp
A recent report on the car rental shortages stated that the number of cars on offer has fallen from 30,000 in 2006 to just over 12,000 last year, t...
Kelly greets AIF pledge
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Kelly greets AIF pledge
The initiative is in support of the envoy's economic mission in Northern Ireland in which the AIF is an active participant and working group member...
Church adrift
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Church adrift
Coupled with this there are the widespread cases of church authorities covering up the activities of pedophile priests, this spurred by the self-im...
Yonkers-based Hardwick lands Gloves win
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Yonkers-based Hardwick lands Gloves win
Noticeably absent from the 83rd annual Gloves tournament was another Dublin native, three-time women's 106-pound champion "Ruthless" Ruth O'Sulliva...
Kilkenny hurlers in trouble after going down to determined Galway
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Kilkenny hurlers in trouble after going down to determined Galway
The incident packed Nowlan Park encounter provided the crowd with just about everything apart from that much needed Kilkenny victory. Along with th...

 

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