Giving something back to the inner city
Ten years ago, Dubliner John Nugent, along with his business partner Peter Millican, led the way transforming King's Cross but, he says, there is...
Laura Whitmore to lead Cricklewood Darkness into Light walk
Irish actor and broadcaster Laura Whitmore will lead this year’s Darkness Into Light charity walk in Cricklewood.
Following on from the success of...
Alcock and Brown statue moved to Galway to mark centenary
A statue of the British pilots who completed the first non-stop Transatlantic flight, from Canada to Clifden in Galway, is being moved from Heathrow...
Tributes follow death of world’s leading scholar on Irish-English
British and Irish scholarship has said farewell to the London-born Irish professor who became the world’s leading authority on Hiberno-English - the distinct form...
‘EU elections are best chance to stop Brexit and protect Belfast agreement’
Writing in the Irish World, former BBC presenter and Change UK MEP candidate Gavin Esler says the European Parliament elections could be our last,...
Siobhan McCann passes away aged 26
Siobhan McCann, the Dulwich Harps footballer who was fighting the “toughest opponent” of her life, has sadly passed away after battling cancer.
McCann, who...
Winning hearts and minds
A national charity has partnered with a London GAA club for a mental health scheme aimed at reducing stigma around mental illness in the...
Historian, witness, survivor
Precisely 51 years on from the day Peter Tyrell set himself on fire at Hampstead Heath park in London, dozens of people gathered there...
Remembering a controversial 1916 Rising drama shown on the BBC
Lance Pettitt, Associate Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, London, explores the impact of a TV drama about the Easter Rising on viewers in England in...
Victims’ families call for end to ‘hurtful’ rallies
The families of victims killed by British soldiers during the Troubles have called on veterans groups to cancel their “deeply hurtful” demonstrations.
A rally protesting...