Despite the economic hard times 20,000 Irish emigrants return home every year a new Irish Times report has revealed.

An interactive map, compiled using data from the International Organization for Migration, has tracked migrants around the world. Published by the World Bank in 2010, the map shows the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada as being Ireland’s top choices.

Canadian sculptor Tim Schmalz has completed a small model of his planned 100-foot statue of St. Patrick which is proposed for the peak of Croagh Patrick, in Mayo.

After six hours of deliberation, a jury found Dublin woman, Tanya Doyle, guilty of stabbing her husband to death at their home in Aylesbury in Tallaght, Dublin, on 4 September 2009. The 40-year-old has been sentenced to life in jail for murdering her 48-year-old husband, Paul Byrne, by stabbing him over 60 times.

For Americans who have an Irish grandparent getting an Irish passport is still fairly easy. But first, you'll need to get citizenship

As the 2013 Oscars will be broadcast on ABC this Sunday, Irishman Daniel Day-Lewis looks to be the odds-on favorite for his turn as Abraham Lincoln in Stephen Spielberg's “Lincoln” to add yet a third Oscar for Best Actor to his mantelpiece. Day-Lewis is but one of many fine thespians from the Emerald Isle.

The news that the Rockaway St. Patrick’s parade may be in financial jeopardy is a distressing coda to all that happened after Hurricane Sandy.

Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin should replace Pope Benedict as pope writes Catholic commentator and author Michael D’Antonio in the Los Angeles Times.

As the debate over immigration reform begins in earnest this week after the House Judiciary Committee held its first hearing, it is clear we stand on the cusp of the most important few months for the Irish in America in many decades.

Imagine alien economists landing from another planet to assess the state of the Irish economy. (Don’t laugh, for many Irish that is what the last few years have felt like, as troika economists – highly respected and capable but with very different frames of reference to most Irish people – have visited our shores). What would those alien economists say?
                   
The first thing they’d have difficulty understanding is why an island nation of 6.5 million people on the edge of Europe has been split into two separate tax, currency and legal systems.

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has told Sinn Fein to forget about a border poll on a united Ireland.

10. "Waking Ned Devine"

Charming comedy set in a tiny, rural Irish town. When lottery winner Ned Devine is found dead - lottery ticket in hand and all - the townsfolk ban together to fool the authorities into thinking Ned is alive so they can receive the cash and share it. Starring Ian Bannen and Fionnula Flanagan.