He’s king of the box office yet again with his latest hit “Couples Retreat,” and Vince Vaughn is doing the rounds on a promotional victory lap in Europe. Dublin, it appears, was easily his favorite stop.

Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Brian Cowen and Sinn Fein leader Martin McGuinness came very close to blows and a stand up fight during negotiations on Northern Ireland.

Former President Bill Clinton will personally take part in a session on Northern Ireland at his annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) summit this week in New York.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP MLA will be leaving on Monday to attend the first two days of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. Adams is a member of the CGI and has attended the event each year since it was established four years ago in 2005, by former US President Bill Clinton.

One of the most touching parts of the Ted Kennedy memoir "True Compass" are his words about his sister Jean, now the last of the Kennedy can.

The Moran clan have produced some very interesting folk. The anglicized "Moran" can be traced to multiple distinct Irish names, and though commonly linked to County Mayo, forms of the name originated throughout middle Ireland in Counties Leitrim, Galway, Kildare, Offaly, and more. Moran is so heavily anglicized - from the French "Morrin" to the Irish "Moran" - that exact knowledge of each Moran's lineage may be hard to trace.

Kelleher exists also as Keliher, Kellaher, Kelliher, etc. The modern forms of the name are derived from the Irish name O Ceileachair, from ceileachar, which means "uxorious," or "excessively fond of one's wife."

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has blasted the people behind the massive bomb find in Northern Ireland this week. "We have made it very, very clear that those days are gone,” he said. “It’s quite clear that the local people do not support what is happening.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams is starring in a new documentary about the famous Che Guevara portrait.

The Irish government has suffered a catastrophic drop in support, according to a new poll due out on Thursday. The poll shows the two combined government parties at just 20 percent support with 17 percent for Fianna Fail — its worst performance ever, and just 3 percent for the Green Party.

One of the most historic days in the history of the island of Ireland was also the last time that IrishCentral Publisher Niall O'Dowd met Senator Ted Kennedy.

Irish-American actor John Cusack recently took a three-week vacation to Ireland to celebrate his mom’s 80th birthday, and luckily for his fans, he Tweeted his thoughts and pictures along the way.

No family has dominated American politics more in this century than the Kennedys, a clan which influenced the shaping of a nation to a degree rarely matched.

I take very strong issue with the piece by Niall Stanage – “Clinton saga highlights ludicrous notions about importance of Irish in America” in the August 8th edition of The Irish Times.

There was a major attack on Irish America in the Irish Times last Saturday, purporting to be an insider view on how Irish America has been misleading the Irish government. The article concludes by stating, “For too long official

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams has blasted dissident republican groups for putting "people in graves for no good reason." Speaking ahead of a major meeting in Ireland Monday, Adams slammed both the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA for the March murders of British soldiers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey and PSNI officer Stephen Carroll.

Amidst claims that Sinn Fein has become irrelevant in the south of Ireland and rumors that Gerry Adams is facing his political demise, the Sinn Fein leader strongly states that he and his party aren’t going anywhere.

A unionist political party leader is calling on Northern Ireland’s police to investigate the circumstances surrounding a recently published photo showing Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness holding a pistol in Derry in 1972.

The two men jailed for the 1996 manslaughter of Irish police detective Jerry McCabe were released from prison in Limerick today. Kevin Walsh from Limerick and Pearse McCauley from Strabane, Co Tyrone, walked out of Castlerea Prison at about 7 a.m. and were met by Sinn Fein TD Martin Ferris.

While mourning the death of Irish author Frank McCourt on Sunday, his friends and relations were consoled by the knowledge that -- although taken too soon -- McCourt had lived a rich life and had achieved every goal he had set himself.

Irish America holds the key to a united Ireland. That's according to Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, who was speaking at the annual Sinn Fein forum in San Francisco on Saturday. Social media will form a crucial part of Sinn Fein's outreach. The new PR campaign will use Twitter and YouTube to virtually unite major American cities on St. Patrick's Day in calling for a "united Ireland.

President Obama apparently had someone else in mind before he made Pittsburgh Steelers boss Dan Rooney the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.

Gerry Adams' thoughts on a united Ireland, from the Sinn Fein conference in

Gerry Adams convened a conference on Irish unity in New York on Saturday as part of what he described as “the start of an engagement with the Irish diaspora.” Hundreds of Irish Americans attended, with writers and academics joining Adams on the podium.

Up to 1,000 delegates are now expected to attend the Sinn Fein organized conference, which will take place in New York on Saturday, June 13. It will be another opportunity for Sinn Fein to fly the flag in America and to put paid to the claims by dissidents that they have allowed a united Ireland to slip off the agenda.

Sinn Fein’s Mary Lou McDonald has been criticized for allowing her campaign office to sell IRA trinkets.

Satisfaction with the Irish Government has plummeted to a new low of 10%, according to a new Irish Times /TNS mrbi poll.

The father of a young man who was murdered in 1997 by a Loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), is in the U.S. this week to seek “truth and justice” for his son.

Death threats ramped up against Martin McGuinness. NI police tell McGuinness dissidents are planning to kill him.

Terror groups in Northern Ireland are trying to recruit teenagers, some as young as 13, for their violent campaign to unify Ireland.

In an extraordinary attack, a unionist politican says Sen. Edward Kennedy shouldn't have been awarded a knighthood.

This June will see Sinn fein party president Gerry Adams host conferences in New York and San Francisco

Irish Americans and Irish give their reaction to the departure of Hugh Orde, who is to step down as head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, after seven years.

The president of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, has refused to heed Israeli demands that he not meet with Hamas officials when he visits the Middle East next week. And because Adams won’t give these assurances, Israeli officials have said that they will not meet him.

He would be 49 now, close to Barack Obama in age and sharing this moment with him. Maybe he'd be in elective politics, perhaps as Hillary's replacement in the Senate. Or he might even have been thinking to run for the job his father once held. We will never know.

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Bill Flynn formed part of a group of Irish Americans who played a vital role in the Northern Ireland peace process. Flynn, the leading Irish-American businessman and former chairman of Mutual of America, together with Bruce Morrison, Niall O’Dowd and Chuck Feeney, successfully persuaded the State Department in 1994 to grant Gerry Adams a U.S. visa.

Youths in hoodies, with covered faces, hurling rocks at the security forces. Gaza? No - we're back in Northern Ireland.

Pity Paul Muldoon. The great Irish poet had the ridiculous task of following Barack Obama to the microphone at the

The key U.S. supporter of IRA dissidents has said that the deadly attacks on British soldiers and a Northern Ireland policeman last week were inevitable. While the rest of the world reacted angrily and massive demonstrations for peace were held in Ireland, the small cadre of dissident supporters in America stuck to their guns. John McDonagh, head of the Irish Freedom Committee stated that the dissidents who carried out the attacks “probably couldn’t care less about this peace process, because it means nothing to ending the partition of Ireland.”

Disident Republicans are the chief suspects in the murder of a policeman in Craigavon, Co. Armagh, 48 hours after two unarmed British soldiers were shot dead as they accepted a pizza delivery at Massereene barracks near Antrim on Saturday

Long Island Congressman Peter King delivers a delicious novel of cutthroat politics on both sides of the Atlantic. Congressman Sean Cross (a King stand-in) is up for re-election in 2006. At the same time, Frank McGrath, an IRA informer who had been in the British witness protection program, is found dead with a bullet in the head, and both kneecaps blown off in Sunnyside, Queens.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is credited with moving Irish Republicanism from the bullet to the ballot. Along the way he's been jailed, shot at, and even now he remains a controversial figure. Yet few doubt that he is both a fascinating and important figure.

Irish Times foreign affairs correspondent Deaglán de Bréadn has put together an even-handed, blow-by-blow account of the recent, historic peace process in Northern Ireland. "The Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland" is an insider's account of how Gerry Adams, the Clinton administration, John Major and many lesser-known figures came together, huffed and puffed, kicked and screamed, but eventually produced a tenuous peace in a violence-scarred land. "This was drama, these were actors," de Bréadn writes.

A proposed British government plan to compensate the families of those killed in the Northern Ireland Troubles - including the families of paramilitary members - has unleashed a torrent of anger and disgust. The plan was put forth by Lord Robin Eames and Denis Bradley, a former Catholic priest, at the behest of the British government 18 months ago. They have proposed a one-time government payout of £12,000 for every family who lost a member in the 30 years of violence in which more than 3,600 people were killed.

Every year since 1901, the international Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. There is an elite group of Irish and Northern Irish scholars and activists who have won this prestigious award.

Irish American Chuck Feeney is one of the greatest philanthropists in American history, giving his billions away anonymously. A new book by Conor O'Clery reveals the secrets behind his extra-ordinary story for the first time. CAHIR O'DOHERTY reports.

YET another fascinating interview with - guess who? - Bono in the current edition of Rolling Stone. The article centers heavily on his political activism, and the U2 singer revealed something that hasn't been known to date - or, at least, wasn't known to "Page 2."

Did any of you know that President Bill Clinton was to-ing and fro-ing about issuing the first U.

ONE hundred of the nation's top Irish Americans will be honored this week at the prestigious "Top 100" awards hosted by our sister publication Irish America magazine in New York.

Distinguished Irish Americans from the worlds of entertainment, sports, media, music and politics will be celebrated . Tom Moran, president and CEO of Mutual of America, is the 2008 Irish American of the Year for his extraordinary work on the Irish peace process and his charitable work on behalf of Concern, the Third World relief agency.

William J. Flynn, the former chairman of Mutual of America, was recently asked by the British government to accept an honorary Commander of the British Empire award for services to Northern Ireland. Flynn, the son of Irish Catholics from Down and Mayo, accepted, and thus became the fourth prominent Irish American leader to figure on the British honors list in recent times.