Ambassador Rooney was on a visit to Kilkenny city Wednesday, November 18, home to the tomb of Obama's long lost relative, Bishop John Kearney. He said he has asked Obama to visit Ireland.

I hate to say I told you so but four weeks ago when I said Charlie Weis had to go there was a storm of criticism around my head. When I suggested that Brian Kelly of Cincinnati was the likely replacement I was told that I was talking nonsense, including on the ESPN site. What are the odds of Weis keeping his job now?

The Irish premiere of Kilkenny man Gabriel Murray's documentary on the Irish heritage of U.S. president Barack Obama will be screened on Sunday as part of the Waterford Film Festival.

AJ Voelpel: Notre Dame has something in common with 12 other teams in the nation; they both have two bye weeks. One in which they have a full week off, and the other when they play Washington State.

Colin Farrell’s name has been all over the tabloids since his girlfriend, Polish actress Alicja Bachleda, stepped out sporting what seems to be a baby bump. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and look at the 33-year-old Irish actor’s past love life, a track record that just may be more extensive than his acting career.

Notre Dame's offensive line improvement means that quareterback Jimmy Clausen will get the protection he needs to have a standout season.

Junior quarterback Jimmy Clausen is one of four captains this season for the Fighting Irish football team. He better act like one if he wants Notre Dame to have any chance of making a BCS bowl, something that they haven't done since the Brady Quinn days.

Notre Dame’s season this year will depend on how well junior quarterback Jimmy Clausen performs. The California blond QB is bigger, taller, and stronger than his freshman and sophomore years -- but the big questions will be can he have a Heisman type year and live up to the hype that has surrounded him since

Irish star Pierce Brosnan was a huge hit with fans in New York today as he took time out to pose for photographs and sign autographs. There was tight security in the Irish stronghold of Maspeth in Queens as scenes from 'Remember Me' were filmed in Mount Olivet cemetery. However, Brosnan waved away security and came out to visit with the fans who had gathered there

Irish star Pierce Brosnan - who plays Robert Pattinson's dad in "Remember Me" - was back on the set yesterday. The movie, which has been filming in New York this week, has been besieged by female fans desperate for a glimpse of "Twillight" star Pattinson. Brosnan, 55, who was vacationing in Hawaii, is bound to have some tips for 23-year-old Pattinson, on how to handle the sudden glare of fame and celebrity.

It is that time of the year again when I am very much in the New York state of mind as the days rapidly approach for another gathering of the trad music universe known as the Catskills Irish Arts Week (CIAW).

Barack Hussein Obama is the descendant of Ohio and Indiana immigrants who came from the borders of Counties

Ireland, with 3,000 miles of open Atlantic to the West, offers some of the best surf conditions in the world. Sea Fever, a documentary, covers the history of Irish surfing from the early 1960s to the present.

Every summer, thousands of Irish college students who come to the U.S. on the J1 Visa have an amazing time. But sometimes, as this list shows, things can go horribly, horribly wrong...

From Jennifer Connelly to Anne Hathaway, Hollywood has introduced us to some of the sexiest stars alive – and they just happen to be Irish and Irish American. We present to you our list of the top 10 sexiest Irish women in Hollywood

FOLLOWING is the second part of our annual summer feature on the questions U.S. naturalization candidates can be asked during a citizenship interview, as provided by the U.

PIERCE Brosnan is a true Irishman at heart. Witness next month's issue of Bon Appetit magazine, where the Co. Meath native lets us know all about his two favorite foods - spuds and soda bread.

LET the countdown begin to seeing Pierce Brosnan dancing around in spandex and singing ABBA tunes. The film version of the musical Mamma Mia! opens in London on June 30, with U.S.

THEY'VE been married for seven years and are parents to two sons, but Pierce Brosnan and his wife Keely Shaye Smith looked like newlyweds when they were photographed on a beach in Hawaii last week in a passionate embrace on the sand. Mrs. Brosnan certainly doesn't fit the mold

of the stereotypical Hollywood wife given her, shall we say, ample curves.

SEEMS like Jennifer Aniston isn't the only one on the planet who doesn't think Angelina Jolie is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Pierce Brosnan says that he's looking to co-star with Oscar winner Charlize Theron in the follow-up to his successful film The Thomas Crown Affair, even though Angie had been mentioned as a possible co-star during the summer.

"Charlize Theron is someone who I've always admired.

IT'S been quite a summer for Sarah Jessica Parker. She starred in one of the season's top box office hits, Sex and the City: The Movie, and was later undoubtedly rocked by reports that her husband Matthew Broderick cheated in the city with a twentysomething youngster while she was on location. But all seems well with the Broderick clan these days.

The son of a teenage single mother who barely knew his father has become president of the United States. In any other country such a story line would border on the miraculous. When you combine it with the fact that Barack Obama is also black it becomes a story for the ages.

Barack Obama is not just the first African American to become president. He is also the first son of an immigrant to reach the White House since Andrew Jackson in 1829. That places him very close to his African roots.

It's a sight that is not seen too often. Big burly electricians carving up turkeys and hams donned in white aprons at the Aisling Irish Community Center in Yonkers on a chilly Monday afternoon in preparation for the annual feed the homeless drive in Manhattan.

Over 30 volunteers of all ages and professions pulled over 300 dinners together on Monday, November 24.

"THIS is like an Irish wake" said Stella O'Leary, head of Irish American Democrats. We were at the first meeting between Senator Barack Obama and key supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton in Washington last week.

The atmosphere was somber to say the least.

ACCORDING to the American Embassy in Ireland, 6,445 Irish students, currently sitting their end of year college exams, will soon be leaving their books behind to embark on a working holiday in the U.S.Students who will flock to various parts of the U.

The state of Ohio is often called the Mother of Presidents, and it looks like its reputation is well deserved.

This week in a rural corner of the state, news is spreading that Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, has many Irish American relatives living in southern part of the state, all of whom are white.

Roger Kearney, 72, a retired Ohio technology director with a keen interest in genealogy, recently discovered his distant connection to Obama while researching his Irish American family tree.

A new television series which looks at the lives and antics of three groups of Irish students who lived and worked in Hawaii, California and Chicago while on J-1 student visas will air in Ireland this month.

A fly-on-the-wall documentary called "Summer in the Sun - The J1" and made by Motive TV, is a six-part series which documents the adventures of 18 students who came to live, work and travel in the U.S.

Let's have a look at a few things that happened in January history. January 12th 1932 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.

On the day he assumes the highest office in the land, Barack Hussein Obama, the descendant of Ohio and Indiana immigrants who came from the borders of Counties Offaly and Tipperary, will join an exclusive club of twenty Presidents who claim Irish ancestry. President Obama's single Irish great-great-great-grandparent puts him at thirteenth position in an informal ranking, alongside James Polk and just ahead of Richard Nixon, whose Quaker immigrant ancestors also came from Ireland to Ohio and Indiana. But the new president's foreign-born father admits him to a smaller and more distinguished group of four that up to now has been exclusively Irish (the parents of Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan, and the father of Chester Arthur were all born on the island of Ireland).

It's 8 a.m. and Fionnula Flanagan arrives for breakfast looking fresh as a daisy in a crisp white shirt.

U.S. President Barack Obama's story is certainly out of the ordinary. But then everything about this presidential front-runner seems woven out of the stuff dreams are made of.

When people think surfing, they think Hawaii; they think hot sunny weather, clear oceans and tropical surroundings. Believe it or not, surfers who know their stuff have discovered some of the best surf in none other than the Emerald Isle. Ireland’s not just green fields – it’s also home to some epic waves.

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