A huge public march, time to coincide with the G8 Summit of world leaders, will be held in Belfast the weekend before the President Obama arrives.

An Irish Catholic Bishop addressed thousands of marchers in Dallas on Sunday, who came out to show their support for comprehensive immigration reform.

Retail sales in Ireland were hit by the unusually cold weather in March, the introduction of the local property tax and industrial relations uncertainty.

Up to 10,000 loyalists took park in a Belfast parade on Saturday marking the centenary of the formation of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).

When Met Eireann publishes its findings on April 2 show that March will likely be the coldest or at least one of the coldest months on record.

Protestant extremists upset the St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Armagh – as the leader of Ireland’s Catholic Church marched with the Vatican’s new ambassador, the New York-born Archbishop Charles Brown.

Snow, coughs, house-hunting, babysitting and parading . . . it’s all in a week’s work for APRIL DREW as she and her family look forward to St. Patrick’s Day.

On March 23, 2013, McLean Avenue in Yonkers, New York will host its second annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The event commences at 1 p.m., and proceeds through the largely Irish neighborhood.

Almost 40 students from the University of Louisiana at Monroe will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland, when they march the capital’s annual parade.

John Wayne’s memory and his Irish heritage has been immortalised on a loyalist marching drum in Northern Ireland.

The bank guarantee deal that collapsed the Celtic Tiger economy will expire at the end of March.
Ireland’s Finance Minister Michael Noonan has announced that the infamous scheme will cease to exist at midnight on March 28.

Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny is adamant he will cut a deal with the IMF and the EU on bank debt by the end of March – but opposition parties don’t believe him.