Terrorist attacks are the sad reality of Northern Ireland and should be expected during the G8 summit, according to the the PSNI commander of the security operation.

Police in Ireland have arrested more than one person a week in connection with terrorism related activities, new figures claim.

On Monday, as I attended to household chores, the marathon was streaming in the background on one of the local stations with the sound off. All of a sudden there was a shout from another room to look at the marathon coverage. The events that unfolded changed my day, and that of many others. The quiet gloriously bright sunny Patriots Monday was shattered with two explosions in quick succession, followed by smoke that blocked the blue sky and introduced a new reality. The horror was in our living rooms the moment it happened; we all felt it.

Monday’s Boston Marathon bomb blasts have revived painful memories of the 1998 Omagh bomb in Co. Tyrone, a Stormont Assembly member said.

The Irish dance community in Boston is in shock over the news that one of its cherished students, seven-year-old Jane Richard of Dorchester, lost a leg in the terror attack at the Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon.

Two distinctive Irish extravaganzas are coming to the Ridgefield Playhouse in Connecticut in March. North America's premier Celtic event featuring the best in rock and Celtic music, comedy and dance, the Tartan Terrors will take the stage on Saturday, March 2, at 8 p.m. Special guests are The Mighty Ploughboys. 

A new dissident IRA group has expelled scores of members in a crackdown on informers.

US President Barack Obama has a dependable 'Irish mafia' within the White House to advise him on key international matters, his anti-terrorism chief said this week.

John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism delivered what could have been a campaign speech for Irish Americans from the Obama campaign in Dublin yesterday.

NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has said that New York City continues to be a target for terrorists in the wake of the attempted attack of the Federal Reserve Bank in Lower Manhattan.

Pennsylvania native Colleen LaRose, who dubbed herself ‘Jihad Jane’ in a YouTube video, will receive her sentencing in Philadelphia in December. LaRose could be facing life in prison for her terroristic threats that she made while living in Ireland.