A 65-year-old Westmeath man has spoken out about how he was kidnapped and kept as a slave for six years by a group of Irish Travellers.

A man who screamed racist abuse at an American football fan who had traveled to Dublin for the Notre Dame-Navy Emerald Classic game last year has had a warrant issued for his arrest.

An Irishman is to be sent to jail in Dubai for having sex in the back of a taxi – after his final appeal against the two month sentence was dismissed.

A tragic construction accident  in upstate New York has taken the life of 24-year-old Gary Feeney of Dorchester and Lugdoon, Templeboy, Co. Sligo.

The mother of Michael Dwyer, the Irishman who was murdered in Bolivia four years ago, has submitted a written petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Washington asking that his shooting be investigated.

There are many questions left unanswered even four years after state security forces shot and killed Michael Dwyer of County Tipperary and two other men said to be plotting the assassination of Colombian president Evo Morales and other terrorizing acts.  Inver Films, a Mayo based company,  has released a documentary called ‘Bolivian Escapade’ that will air tonight at 10 on a Qatar based tv station to address and look deeper into the glaring question marks surrounding the incident.  

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

A hair transplant company in Blackrock, Dublin, recently helped heal the mental and physical scars of a young Dublin man who was the victim of a traumatic attack during the 2010 Galway Races.

According to Papal Dictate dating back as far as 1883 the pope is nominally the Bishop of Kilfenora, in County Clare. Along with attempting to mend a fragile Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis I is taking on this west of Ireland diocese.

In a box, in the archives of the National University of Ireland Galway, lie a bundle of yellowed letters dating from 1935 to 1936 about a mysterious Galway man who sailed with Columbus on his first voyage to the west in 1492.

An Irishman died just hours after a liposuction operation in Colombia – after he had taken cocaine.
Dublin’s Coroner’s Court heard that Pierre Christian Lawlor suffered a massive coronary shortly after undergoing liposuction in a Colombian clinic.

Police in Australia have confirmed that the man held in connection with the death of emigrant Kenny Meyler is also Irish.

The language of love can very, very easily get lost in translation. What may be perfectly acceptable when dating in Ireland can warrant a well-aimed slap in the face in the U.S.

Before you take the plunge or allow your Irish boyfriend to put a ring on it, please review IrishCentral's list of the pros and cons of marrying an Irishman.  It just might save your sanity, or at least it will prepare you for the madness that awaits.

Harlem cabdriver Isidore Branham, 38, turned himself into a hero on Thursday at the 135th Street-Lenox Avenue station in Harlem on his way to work.

The Irishman who was among those reportedly being held hostage at the In Amenas oil-field in Algeria on Wednesday is said to be out of harm’s way now and “safe and well.”

An Irishman is among those who were kidnapped while working in an oil field in Algeria in the early hours of Wednesday morning. A group connected to the terror cell Al Qaeda is reportedly claiming responsibility for the kidnapping.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch this past March, and discovered a secretly engraved message that turned an unsubstantiated family story into a confirmed historical event.