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By Susan Falvella Garraty [caption id="attachment_22269" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Rep. Jason Chaffetz, left, and Ambassador Michael...

The weather as a meteorological metaphor for the state of Ireland. If this be the case then the big chill that is hanging over the island will be a...

By Susan Falvella Garraty [caption id="attachment_22229" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Senator Kirsten Gillibrand"][/caption] The House ...

As the North braced itself for budget cutbacks yesterday, there was the prospect of good news on the funding front from the US. For a proposed $15m...

By Susan Falvella Garraty Washington, D.C. --- The U.S. diplomat at the center of State Department cables posted on the WikiLeaks website claims in...

Kids walked out of school, people protested on the streets, and opposition politicians dug as deeply as they could to come up with words of condemn...

By Scott Jamison [caption id="attachment_22076" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="A scene from last Saturday's Irish Congress of Trade Union...

By Ray O'Hanlon The Irish government was hanging on to power this week, determined to deliver a cost slashing budget on Dec. 7 even as it bowed to ...

By Anthony Neeson Nov. 17-23, 2010 Gerry Adams has caused political shockwaves by announcing that he is to step down as MLA and MP for West Belfast...

By Ray O’Hanlon & Scott Jamison Nov. 17-23, 2010 Taoiseach Brian Cowen drew a line in the sand Tuesday insisting that Ireland did not need to be ba...

By Ray O'Hanlon The annual guessing game is over. Best selling author Mary Higgins Clark is the grand marshal of the 2011 New York St. Patrick's Da...

The Great Hunger is "the hole in the heart of Irish America," author and film-maker Mary Pat Kelly declared at a "Famine Echoes" conference held ov...