President and Taoiseach lead tributes to Brendan Grace
President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar have led tributes to the late Brendan Grace, who died earlier today of lung cancer. He...
Tommy McKenna RIP
The Irish World, and the Irish community in Manchester, are saddened to learn of the death of local businessman, promoter and philanthropist Tommy McKenna.
Tommy,...
Much-loved London undertaker goes to his own, final resting place
The man who buried many thousands of Irish people in West London last went to his own final resting place.
Local funeral director Patrick ‘Paddy’...
The story behind EPIC – Ireland’s award-winning emigration museum
Having lived and worked abroad for the majority of his adult life — Africa, the UK, America and now Dublin — Mervyn Greene felt...
Beef, broadband and Bailey deny Leo a break
PJ Cunningham’s look back at the past week in Irish politics.
Governments normally look forward to escaping public scrutiny during the summer recess –...
Parnells’ Brendan Lynch laid to rest in Meath
Parnells GAA club members provided a guard of honour for club stalwart Brendan Lynch, who was laid to rest last week after passing away suddenly in...
Irish celebrate spirit of volunteerism in Hammersmith
This year's Irish in Britain volunteer awards winners, finalists and nominators came from Merseyside, Leeds, Manchester, Stevenage Luton and London.
Among those present were...
Nurse recruitment campaign scrapped
A campaign to attract hundreds of Irish nurses back to Ireland from overseas has been quietly dropped after just 120 nurses relocated from the...
Chance to win €30,000 to relocate to Ireland
A competition has been launched to give one Irish emigrant living abroad €30,000 as part of a relocation package to move back home to...
We need concrete guarantees to return, say Irish teachers in UK
Irish teachers in the UK have called on the Irish government to introduce more substantive measures than online portals if they’re to be encouraged...