The official list of top baby names in the U.S. for 2012 was published in time for Mother’s Day and Irish ties are strong once again.

There is only one thing that comes close to shocking me as much as the horrific attacks last week at the Boston Marathon, and that is the American media’s relentless pursuit of an angle that paints suspected terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a young, tragic hero.

Actor John Cusack is reportedly in talks to play Beach Boy Brian Wilson in the forthcoming biographical film Love & Mercy.

The Sunday Times Rich List has revealed that the collective bank balance of pop sensation One Direction has made them the richest boy band in Britain.

More commonly used for its anti-wrinkle properties, botox injections have recently been used to help three-year-old Irish American cerebral palsy sufferer, Aiden Farrell, to walk.

Irish funnyman Chris O’Dowd’s home grown comedy ‘Moone Boy’ has been commissioned for a third series by Sky One.

The Irish health minister has called for a report into the circumstances that lead to the death of a seven-year-old boy, who died after falling into a flooded river.

For years I dreamed of finding an Irish rogue to ask for my hand in marriage and take me back to the homeland. We would settle down, somewhere in the west perhaps, build a mansion and our red-haired and freckled children would roam free in the Irish countryside. My life in the U.S. would become a distant memory as I lived out my plan of embracing my Irish heritage.