Adam Stuart Busby, 64, a native of Dublin, is facing charges in relation to a number of fake bomb threats he sent to the University of Pittsburgh and surrounding media outlets. Busby, described as a “prolific hoaxer,” has already served prison time for other hoaxes.

The full scale of illegal adoptions and birth registrations in Ireland prior to the 1970s is unknown, the government has admitted.

An unknown Irish author has received a  $1 million advance from her publishers, Grand Central in the US and Little Brown in Britain, for a two-book deal.

After nearly a century, a 28-year-old First World War unknown soldier has been identified  as an Irish immigrant a full eight years after his remains were discovered in Northern France.

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    When the bigwigs of the movie industry gathered in Park City, Utah, at the end of January for the annual Sundance Film Festival, the Irish were well represented.
    Brendan Gleeson’s new film The Guard, which also stars Fionnula Flanagan, Don Cheadle and Mark Strong, opened up the festival’s World Dramatic Competition.  The Guard was directed by John Michael McDonagh – brother of acclaimed Irish playwright Martin McDonagh.
    The Guard features the always-brilliant Gleeson as a small-town Irish cop known for his bad attitude and dark humor.  His mother is dying, and he may be involved in a drug-smuggling ring, which has attracted the attention of an FBI agent (Cheadle).
    Guard producer Ed Guiney recently said: “I’m delighted that Sundance has selected The Guard as the opening film of the world competition this year. It’s the most high profile slot in one of the world’s great festivals and we cannot think of a better way to launch the film.”
    Meanwhile, Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition featured Knuckle, an intimate look at the brutal world of bare-knuckle boxing among Irish Travellers.  Travellers, of course, are the nomadic tribe of people who wander through Ireland and other countries and live by their own set of rules.
    Director Ian Palmer followed a group of Travellers for over 10 years and focuses on James, a member of a group known as the Quinn McDonaghs. James often finds himself asked to defend his clan against the rival Joyces.
    At Sundance, Knuckle was described as follows: “Disturbingly raw, yet compulsively engaging, Knuckle  offers candid access to a rarely seen, brutal world where a cycle of bloody violence seems destined to continue unabated.”
    Two Irish shorts, meanwhile, were among the 81 short films featured at Sundance. Small Change, starring Nora Jane Noone (The Magdalene Sisters), is about a bored, young Mom while the animated The External World is about a little boy learning to play the piano.

An Irish couple owe a staggering $1 billion to banks after a property spending spree that included trophy buildings in Washington, Stockholm and London.

In an auction dubbed "the night that changed their lives" a photo of U2 from their younger days, and photos from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin will be up for grabs at Bonhams' Entertainment Memorabilia auction in London on June 23.

Here's a picture of hardworking Irish actor Liam Neeson, 57, on the set of his latest film "Unknown White Male" in Berlin, Germany.

School officials in South Hadley have reneged on their promise to divulge punishments dished out to the students responsible for the bullying inflicted on 15-year-old Irish girl, Phoebe Prince, who took her own life in January. 

January Jones and Diane Kruger have signed on to co-star alongside Liam Neeson in the upcoming thriller “Unknown White Male.”