Brooklyn's legendary Irish American DA Charles Hynes has found himself accused of tampering with evidence that wrongly convicted an innocent man this week.

The New York Irish History Roundtable is hosting a free walking tour of Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill this coming Saturday, December 1.

A public protest over the imprisonment of Republican political prisoners, Martin Corey, Gerry McGeough and Marian Price, is to take place this coming Sunday in Brooklyn.

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Proudly Irish American, New York City Council speaker, Christine Quinn has been named as one of the grand marshals of the Brooklyn West Indian Day Parade.

Indicted last summer by King’s County District Attorney Charles Hynes, Levi Aron is expected to plead guilty to the murder of Leiby Kletzky last summer and face 40 years to life in prison with no chance of parole.

Irish American actress Rooney Mara has been tipped to play the lead role in the film adaptation of ‘Brooklyn,' the award winning novel by Irish author Colm Toibin.

A shootout in Brooklyn over the weekend that injured four on-duty police officers prompted a press conference from Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. The two are equally distraught about the rising violence towards police officers.

John Spinks is a Co. Clare born artist living and working in Brooklyn. His work was recently exhibited at New York’s famous Gleason’s boxing gym.

Occupation: Artist

Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes is making the murder of an eight year old boy, Leiby Kreitzy, his top priority after claims his office was moving to slowly.

New York police officer Tom Burke is being hailed as the man who tracked down a vicious child murderer in Brooklyn, New York.

It’s still early in 2011, but so far the Irish newcomer of the year has to be Colin O’Donoghue. The Drogheda native starred alongside Anthony Hopkins in the Exorcist-style thriller The Rite, which should be out on DVD soon. It was O’Donoghue’s film debut, and though some critics were a bit rough on the film, The Rite spent a week as the number one movie in America in January. O’Donoghue, 30, had previously starred (alongside fellow Irish thespian Jonathan Rhys Meyers) in the Showtime drama The Tudors. Prior to that, O’Donoghue had simply done theater work and television shows for Ireland’s TV network RTE. With his performance in The Rite (which also stars Irish screen veteran Ciaran Hinds), O’Donoghue certainly opened some eyes and set himself up for an interesting career. What’s next for O’Donoghue? He’s playing things coy. “I’ve got something else in the works,” he told About.com. “But I can’t talk about it.”

Eight Irish students were scammed out of thousands of dollars after being told a luxurious loft apartment was available to them for summer rental in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Historic Green-Wood Cemetery, the final resting place of countless Irish and Irish Americans, is now home to the newly unearthed gravestone of 19th-century Irish rebel Patrick O’Donohue (1815-1854). As one of the leaders of the Young Ireland Rebellion in 1848, O’Donohue was charged with sedition and sentenced to death. That sentence was later commuted to deportation to Van Diemen’s Land, a British penal colony from which many Irish prisoners escaped to America.

A young Irish-American woman is in grave condition after she and her college friend were mown over by a hit and run driver  at Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn on Sunday morning.

"Brooklyn," Colm Toibin’s sixth novel which will go on sale May 5, is a spellbinding tale of a shy young Irish woman’s journey into adulthood.