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Niall O'Dowd

Niall is the founder of IrishCentral as well as of Irish America Magazine and the Irish Voice Newspaper, both successful publications. He is also responsible for publishing IrishCentral.com community news and The Irish Emigrant newspaper in Boston.

He founded the Wall Street 50, Top 100 Irish Americans, Business 100 and more recently the Top 50 Women in Business as well as the Irish Legal 100.

Niall was awarded an honorary doctorate by University College Dublin for his work on the Irish peace process, which was a subject of a book, 'Daring Diplomacy' and a PBS Special, 'An Irish Voice' He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University journalism school.


Ed Farnan

Ed lives in the US and has been writing articles and opinion pieces as a conservative/liberterian for years.

Topics include: Energy independence, questioning the science behind global warming, secure borders, 2nd amendment rights, smaller government and the many great Irish influencers of yesterday and today.

Ed's columns have been linked to or appeared in various publications such as WSJ, NY Daily News, NY Post, Washington Times, Des Moines Register, USA Today, India Times, AMAC, and many other publications throughout the USA and world. Ed is often a guest on radio stations in Europe and the USA and is a guest on Fox News.

Ed Farnan

Laura Bryn Sisson

Laura Bryn is an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, majoring in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and minoring in Studio Art. Laura Bryn has been a staff writer for The Dartmouth, Dartmouth's daily independent student newspaper, since 2009, and became a news editor in 2010. She also studied abroad at Trinity College Dublin in the fall of 2011. 

Laura Bryn Sisson

Kerry O'Shea

As a staff writer for IrishCentral since September 2011, Kerry helps to build daily editorial content for the site.

Before graduating from Marist College in 2011 with a degree in English & Writing, Kerry worked at Business & Finance Magazine in Dublin, Ireland and BBC America in New York City. She also served as Web Editor for Marist's student-run newspaper 'The Circle.'

Kerry O'Shea

Daniel O'Carroll

Daniel O'Carroll, 23, is a law graduate of UCC, Cork, Ireland. His interests include small business startups, surfing, and writing. He has been a contributor and a blogger with IrishCentral.com since interning there in 2010.

Daniel O'Carroll

Cahir O'Doherty

Cahir O'Doherty is the longtime arts editor and feature writer for The Irish Voice, Irish America magazine and IrishCentral.com. He has reported on the culture, politics, and heritage of Irish America for over a decade.

O'Doherty is a graduate of Yale University, where he was awarded the George Pierce Memorial Scholarhip and of the University of Ulster, where he won the Greer Garson Award.

Cahir O'Doherty

Cormac Eklof

Cormac is a freelance sports writer who graduated from University College Dublin approximately two recessions ago. He has been writing about Major League Baseball and other sports for IrishCentral since 2010.
 
He is a veteran of the Irish National baseball team, holding a number of records including most appearances by a pitcher and most wins for the Irish team. He has a record of 140-46 as a starting pitcher in the Irish baseball league for the Dublin City Hurricanes, and is a big Red Sox fan.

Cormac Eklof

S.J. Velasquez

S.J. is a professional multimedia journalist by day, Irish dancer by night.

After earning a master's degree in magazine, newspaper and online journalism at Syracuse University, S.J. worked full time as copy editor at The Post-Standard, and then web producer at Syracuse.com. S.J. currently works at The Buffalo News as multimedia content coordinator for Buffalo.com.

S.J.'s Irish dance-themed news articles, videos and blogs have appeared in Hornpipe Magazine, Feis America Magazine, The Irish Times, The Buffalo Irish Times, I Heart That Dance blog, MichaelFlatley.com, Diddlyi.com and RincePop.com.

S.J. Velasquez

Cian Fahey

Cian has run the Sports-Central blog on Irish Central since February of 2011. He covers all things from both sides of the Atlantic to appease all Irish sports fans.

A future Graduate of Griffith College Cork who will earn his degree in 2012.

Fahey is also a contributor to the Guardian's NFL coverage, a featured columnist (and former full-time on-call writer) at Bleacherreport as well as lead writer for the website FFBLife. He is an avid NFL, NBA, soccer and rugby fan while enjoying most sports. Suffers from a severe twitter addiction also which, ironically, figures to prove fatal to his social life.

Cian Fahey

Molly Muldoon

Molly is Deputy Editor of IrishCentral and a reporter for the websites sister print publication, the Irish Voice. While assisting in all editorial aspects of the website, Molly regularly brings the latest in breaking Irish news from New York City.

A journalism graduate of Dublin City University, Molly worked in broadcast and print media in Ireland before embarking on her career with IrishCentral in New York.

A graduate of the Washington Ireland Program, Molly is a regular contributor to print publications in Ireland and has been published in the Sunday Business Post and the Irish Examiner.

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Kate Hickey

Having worked in various online and print publications after gaining a MA in Journalism, Kate joined IrishCentral.com in 2010, taking on the role of Editor.

Throughout her career in Ireland and in New York, Kate worked on publications such as “The Irish Independent”, “The Herald”, “The Irish Times” and “New York Arts” among others.

At IrishCentral, Kate is responsible for sourcing, commissioning and managing content of the site.

Kate Hickey




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