Boris: Stormont must deliver for the people
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has met with leaders in Stormont and called on Northern Ireland’s restored government to ‘deliver for the people’.
The Prime Minister...
SF and DUP finally agree to resume Stormont power sharing
Northern Ireland's main parties, Sinn Féin and the DUP, have backed proposals for the restoration of power-sharing three years after the collapse of the...
Bitter dispute over future of Chorlton Irish Club
There are renewed concerns about the future of Manchester’s historic Chorlton Irish Club.
A group named Friends of Chorlton Irish say they have been made...
Manchester-Irish community stalwart Brendan Clarke passes away
By David Hennessy
The Irish community in Manchester is mourning the death of Brendan Clarke who passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family on...
Former CICA Chairman Seamus Troy passes away
By David Hennessy
The London Irish community is grieving after Seamus Troy, a former chairman of the Council of Irish County Associations in London and...
Government defers its controversial RIC commemoration
The Government has deferred the planned commemoration of the Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Metropolitan Police in Irish history.
The event had been widely criticised...
Varadkar defends Royal Irish Constabulary commemoration
Apolitical row has bro- ken out in Ireland over the government’s plans to commemorate the Royal Irish Constabulary in Dublin Castle later this month...
Hillary Clinton appointed Chancellor of Queen’s University
Hillary Clinton is to be the new chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast (QUB). Secretary Clinton, who received an honorary doctorate from Queen’s in October 2018,...
Number of Irish citizens in UK up by nearly 100,000 in 2019
Record number of passport applications behind huge spike
By Bernard Purcell
The number of Irish citizens in the UK has jumped by nearly 100,000 –...
Irish grandfather’s bedtime story picked up by Westfield
By David Hennessy
A Colindale-based Mayo grandfather’s bedtime stories meant only for his granddaughter have gone on to find a much broader audience, being placed...