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Almost 15 years have passed since I spent a morning in Higgins's home in Cavan. He was then a sprightly 72 years old and the passions of his life m...

The once beaten Medina [22-1-2, 17 KOs], who will be going up in weight, will be Duddy's toughest test since the resurgent middleweight reunited wi...

Play was held up for a time in what was an entertaining contest due to an injury to Tyrone's former Footballer of the Year, Stephen O'Neill, who di...

The Rev. James "Guadalupe" Carney, a 58-year-old World War II veteran, formally resigned from the Society of Jesus when he agreed to be a chaplain ...

Fellow New Yorker short story writer Frank O'Connor cited Salinger's case in particular in an anti-censorship speech he gave at Trinity College in ...

"It is alarming that so many fire company closures are even being proposed in the mayor's preliminary budget. Fire companies are critical to adequa...

But President Obama's focus on reform during the lengthy address to both houses of Congress struck many observers as being little more than perfunc...

In one tiny effort to apply a tourniquet to stem the nation's gusher of red ink, the administration targeted Ireland's lower corporate tax structur...

Koner's photographs of Dublin's inner city and docklands reflected his abiding interest in social conditions and portray Dublin at a time when the ...

Repeatedly called an "Irish slut" after she befriended some of the boys at the high school, Phoebe Prince had been bullied at school, on her cell p...

The state director to the Garden State's veteran U.S. Senator, Frank Lautenberg, has taken leave of politics to set out on a new career which will ...

Traditionally, February 1, St. Brigid's Day, marks the end of winter in Ireland. Unlike Groundhog Day, which is also Candlemas Day, there is no att...