New grassroots Irish movement to stop no-deal Brexit
A lifelong Labour Party activist and former councillor has joined forces with a rebel MP, who resigned the Tory whip, to start a ‘David...
No Deal? No way…
Three former British Prime Ministers and various Irish government ministers have warned incoming PM Boris Johnson not to continue down the no-deal Brexit path...
The untold story of Irish women emigrating to Britain
Both a personal and professional project for historian Dr Jennifer Redmond, having lived in the UK as a child, her Moving Histories book is...
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...
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...
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...
Irish can show the way in UK construction, says leading economist
Irish construction workers and firms can make “a real difference” in turning the UK sector’s recent slowdown around, a leading construction economist has said....
Irish country music underappreciated, says Higgins
The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins hosted a special concert of country music at Áras an Uachtaráin and suggested it is often not...