Scituate, a pleasant seaside town thirty miles from Boston is the most Irish town in the United States according to the U.S census.
 
All in all 16 communities within the South Shore neighborhoods of Boston  have the highest percentage of people of Irish descent in the United States.

Up to 2,000 children were illegally exported from Magdalene laundries in Ireland to adoptive parents in the U.S., mainly to wealthy families.

A leading Catholic lawyer and commentator has slammed the Pope for publicly shaming Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony over clerical child abuse whilst treating Irish Cardinal Sean Brady in an entirely different matter.

Deadline reported that Oscar nominated actor Johnny Depp will play Boston Irish gangster Whitey Bulger in the upcoming film “Black Mass: The True Story of the Unholy Alliance between the FBI and the Irish Mob.” Production will begin in May and a location has not yet been announced.

On Valentine’ Day, The American Ireland Fund will host its 23rd Annual Black-Tie Dinner Dance, “The Palm Beach Emerald Valentine Celebration,” co-chaired by Michael Gibbons and Thomas C. Quick at The Breakers on Thursday, February 14, 2013.  The Honorary Co-chairmen are Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Michele and Howard Kessler, and Hillie Mahoney.

The Irish nanny accused of the brutal assault that led to the death of baby Rehma Sabir has asked for an ‘avalanche’ of evidence as she fights the charges.

In 2004 Angela Boylan, then 34, had just got married to Pablo Ruiz. Mass General Magazine reports the Irish woman living in Boston was looking forward to starting a family but soon after received the shocking news that she had uterine cancer and would likely never bear children. A second medical opinion bore out the first diagnosis.

A lawyer who worked for British au pair Louise Woodward has said the defence team of Irish nanny Aisling McCarthy Brady is going ‘on the offensive’ as their client awaits prosecution.

One of Ireland’s most loved comedians will be spreading Irish cheer this March on his US tour including stops in Chicago, Kansas, San Francisco and Boston. Ardal O’Hanlon, internationally famous for his role as Father Dougal in the comedy series “Father Ted”, will be joined by Bryan Walsh, Brad Meehan, David Studebaker, and Dave Rattigan on stage in each city during tour.

The average age of Irish emigrants has risen according to new statistics which show that thirty-somethings are leading the exodus from the economically crippled country.

One month after the death of Rehma Sabir, the baby who was cared for by Cavan native Aisling McCarthy Brady, the Irish nanny will appear in a Boston court to hear the charges against her.

The story of how Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger met with the IRA and set up the arms-smuggling deal is detailed in a new book.

Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley has said the next pope must deal with Bishops who allowed abusive priests to remain in ministry.

Before entering the Vatican conclave, where the next pope will be chosen, Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley wrote to lawmakers urging support for a bill that could weaken President Obama’s birth control coverage mandate.

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley will find his reputation enhanced with Catholics and non-Catholics when he returns to Boston from the papal conclave in Rome this week.

Mary McAleese, who as president of Ireland helped bring about an end to The Troubles” she had known during her youth in Northern Ireland, will come to Boston College this fall as the Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, the university announced today.

Irish nanny Aisling McBrady is set to appear in the Cambridge District Court, in Medford, Massachusetts, to face a probable cause hearing. The County Cavan native is accused of the assault of one-year-old Rehma Sabir, of Cambridge, MA.

Aisling McCarthy Brady, the Boston-based County Cavan nanny accused of assaulting one-year-old Rehma Sabir, will be held in custody until a probable cause hearing, on April 22. Her defense lawyer claims the DA is using her illegal status to keep her in jail.

Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley said Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End on Palm Sunday – his first appearance since returning home from the papal conclave – and urged infrequent church-goers to attend more regularly.

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2013 Presidential Distinguished Service Awards for the Irish Abroad. The closing date for return of nominations to the Embassy [or your nearest Irish Consulate in the United States] is Monday April 22nd. For more information and a copy of the downloadable nomination form, click here.

Boston College has threatened disciplinary action against a group of students distributing birth-control and information on safe-sex. The Catholic institution is calling the act a violation of the university’s mission.

The White House held an immigration round table discussion in Chicago on Wednesday March 27. 

It became famous as the most Irish political home on the planet but Southie, as in, South Boston, may be about to elect a Haitian American and one of two women over an Irish American in a key state senate race.