Mary Robinson receives Third Benjamin Franklin House Medal for Leadership

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Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has been honoured with the Benjamin Franklin House Medal for Leadership in a virtual ceremony last week. The award recognises extraordinary...

British Army soldiers accused of Troubles murders will not now face trial

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PARAS' MURDER TRIALS COLLAPSE Two former British Army soldiers accused of murders in Northern Ireland including on Bloody Sunday in 1972, will now not face...

Igniting memories

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A Brent-born photographer, who took pictures of the Irish community as well as the Afro-Caribbean community in Brent in the late 1980s/ early 1990s,...

The Rhino in the room

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Former cabinet minister and Northern Ireland Secretary Lord Peter Hain told David Hennessy why he thinks Nelson Mandela would turn in his grave if...

A celebration of Irishness in Coventry from next Friday

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From this Friday Coventry will be showing off its Irish heritage as sharing it with the rest of the UK. You can follow the live-streamed...

C of E Court says Keane family was discriminated against in headstone row

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Margaret Keane Gravestone: Court’s Written Judgment Finds Direct Discrimination On Basis Of Irish Race A Coventry family who won a landmark appeal to have...
RTE Stay execution LW

RTE Long Wave under essential maintenance

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RTÉ are carrying out essential maintenance of the Long Wave (LW) transmitter in Clarkstown, Co. Meath. The maintenance began on Tuesday 15 June and...

Celebrating Bloomsday (See James Joyce giveaway)

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London-based, Dublin-raised, Irish-Nigerian author, academic and broadcaster Emma Dabiri this week led a virtual Bloomsday (16 June) celebration of James Joyce and Ulysses for...

Campaign for monument to WB Yeats nears target

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A campaign for a permanent London monument to the Irish Nobel prize winning poet WB Yeats is just £21,000 short of its £134,000 target...

New Edna O’Brien portrait for Embassy

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A new portrait of the writer, Edna O’Brien, has been purchased by the state and will be installed at the Irish Embassy in London later this...