Her features are unmistakably Irish, but Nassau County, L.I. District Attorney Kathleen Rice, 44, first visited

On Saturday, October 17, rain or shine, the Shannon Gaels Gaelic football club of Queens will host its first annual field day in Sunnyside Gardens Park (49th Street and 39th Avenue). The special guest will be New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Mariah Carey, busy promoting her new album  Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel, says her Irish mother Patricia Carey kept her going when she was trying to break into the music business. Mariah's parents divorced when she was a child and she moved 13 times with her mother before settling down in a suburb on

Pierce Brosnan’s new film “The Greatest” is slated to open the 17th annual Hamptons International Film Festival on October 8.

All is not going well in the Sex and The City shoot out in Glen Cove on Long Island we hear. Reports from the set claim that

As Irish associations and societies across the country dwindle in numbers due to lack of immigration and other factors, a number of organizations in New York are taking measures to ensure their longevity. The Irish American Center in Mineola, Long Island, is no exception. President May O’Boyle Deegan, 48, whose parents are from Co. Donegal, said that the center is worried about its future.

Based on family names and individual stories, there are many hundreds of American dead with Irish heritage, including Americans who through parents or grandparents had become Irish citizens. 

This is a tribute to several of these brave Irish men and women.

It was his handshake I’ll never forget, solid and strong. The event was an Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) rally in Washington D.C. in March 2006. Although I was slightly intimidated by the enormity of the situation and those all around me, I was somewhat comforted by the presence of Senator Ted Kennedy and his vivacious handshake.

The Big Apple plays a big part in new movie "The Bounty" which stars Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler. The pair - who have been romantically linked for the past several months - have been spotted filming in Harlem, the Bronx and Queens, and have even taken a couple of day trips further afield to Long Island and Atlantic City in New Jersey.

After Sunday's showdown at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone, Padraig Harrington has no doubt that playing with Tiger Woods in any scenario brings its own unique set of pressures. However, Harrington argues that is is actually harder to play with Woods in the opening rounds of a tournament as opposed to the red hot atmosphere of a final day pairing.

Perfume maker Coty is suing an Long Island perfume company for the unauthorized sale of Sarah Jessica Parker’s "Lovely" scent.

With two divisions of the Ancient Order of Hibernians sponsoring the Long Island Feis on Sunday, the organization is thriving in Suffolk County.

With her glowing wig of black curls and bright smile, Mitsi Fink looks like she’s 18 when she points her toes to dance at the Long Island Feis on Sunday. She has danced for seven years and is in four competitions at the Long Island Feis. But Mitsi only took up step-dancing when she was 25 years old. She’s one of the few adult dancers at the feis and is competing with people much younger than her.

The final count of dancers at the Long Island Feis on Sunday was 528. That may seem like quite a lot of dancers to you, but it’s fewer than the hosts expected, and it marks a trend seen by many feiseanna this summer, as the country’s economic difficulties percolate down.

Soledad O'Brien talks to Cahir O'Doherty about growing up on Long Island with Irish and Afro-Cuban roots, and her highly anticipated new follow-up series "Black in America 2" debuting on CNN this week.

Dublin lightweight Steve Ormond (5-0, 1 KO) beat Puerto Rican Israel Suarez (1-2) by unanimous decision in a six round fight outdoors at Plattduetsche Park Restaurant, Franklin Square, Long Island on Saturday afternoon.

The most familiar sound at a feis is normally the jigging of the accordions, keyboards and violins, the instruments that typically accompany Irish step-dancing. At the Rockland County Feis, another noise was in the mix, sharp and sustained – the pipes. More than 35 pipe bands competed at the festival, and it’s one of the bigger pipe band contests in the country.

Eugene Kyne highlights the past week's intermediate and senior football matches from the Bronx.

New York has been hit by Irish Famine disease. The destructive fungal blight is wiping out tomato and potato plants across the state and much of the Northeast. The technical terms is "late blight," but it's the same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s.

Eugene Kyne gives the lowdown on the upcoming football action from the Bronx between New Jersey/Kilkenny and Offaly, Cork and Tyrone, Roscommon and Brooklyn/Long Island, and the John Joe McGovern Final between Rangers and St. Barnabas, the first junior final of the season.

Irish American congressman Peter King today slammed the late Michael Jackson as a “pervert” and has called on the media to stop “glorifying” him. The New York congressman said Jackson was a "low life." "He was a pervert, a child molester; he was a pedophile," storms King in a two-minute video he made outside an American Legion Hall near his office on Long Island.

Dublin lightweight Steve Ormond (4-0, 1 KO) will return to the ring on July 18 at the Plattduetsche Park Restaurant, Franklin Square, Long Island in a six round contest on an outdoor Ring Promotions card against Puerto Rican Israel Suarez (1-1).

Source close to congressman says his desire to be close to grandchildren and his divergence on policy issues swayed him stay in Congress.

Cathal Dervan: The world and his mother appears fascinated with Padraig Harrington’s swing ahead of this week’s U.S. Open at Bethpage on Long Island, but one man isn’t worried – Harrington himself.

A summer of work and fun in New York isn’t going as planned this year for a number of Irish J-1 visa holders, who are finding it difficult to secure jobs and accommodation.

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

On the eve of the U.S. Open at Bethpage , Long Island Padraig Harrington has promised to go back to basics in a bid to recapture the form that saw him win three majors in 15 months.

Eugene Kyne breaks down the senior football league contests between Donegal and Tyrone, Down and Four Provinces, and Leitrim and Sligo, as well as the intermediate football match between Brooklyn/Long Island and Mayo at Gaelic Park in the Bronx.

Dubin lightweight Stephen Ormond (4-0, 1 KO) beat Sergi Ganjelashvili (4-3-1) by unanimous decision at the Capital One Bank Theater in Westbury, Long Island on Friday night.

Tthe U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (UCSIS) recently announced that it has begun the process of archiving old alien records that will eventually become part of the U.S. National Archives.

It was a big night for 'Billy Elliot' and Irish American Trent Kowalik on Broadway, with the musical taking ten Tonys, including Best Musical and Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. In a first, Kowalik, a World Irish dancing champion and fifth generation Irish-American who traces his heritage to Roscommon, David Alvarez and Kiril Kulish made history when they shared the award for Leading Actor in a Musical.

It was a bird that won the Belmont Stakes, Saturday, only not the one that everyone thought would emerge victorious, as Summer Bird and not Mine that Bird stormed home to victory.

Dublin lightweight Stephen Ormond (3-0, 1 KO) will make his New York debut this Friday night when he takes on Washington Hago (4-4, 2 KOs) at the Capital One Bank Theater in Westbury, Long Island on a Lou DiBella-promoted Broadway Boxing card.

Irish Americans have reacted with shock and outrage at the revelations of the Ryan report which has detailed the extent of the abuse of Ireland's children which took place in Church-run institutions. They all agreed that a collar should not protect anyone from prosecution.

Irish Americans have reacted with shock and outrage at the revelations of the Ryan report which has detailed the extent of the abuse of Ireland's children which took place in Church-run institutions. They all agreed that a collar should not protect anyone from prosecution.

It’s a long time since Kathleen Blake has danced herself, but she loves dancing, and she follows her three grand-nieces across the country as they compete in contest after contest. “I love the costumes, the wigs, the music, the competition, the people, the camaraderie,” she says. “I’m obsessive about Irish dance. We’re groupies. We travel wherever they go.”

Feiseanna are growing and getting bigger across the country, she says, and a lot of work has to be done to keep up with these trends. Behind the Mulvihill-Lynch Feis is a seemingly vast network of committees, run by parents and by teachers, and each with its own head.

The Mulvihill-Lynch Feis, a local competition in Smithtown in Long Island, may seem like a small event by some standards. Organized by Debbie Lynch-Webber, head of the Mulvihill-Lynch School of Irish Dance, it takes place at Smithtown West High School. Yet it draws hundreds of children from New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and as many as seven or eight hundred kids will compete. In fact it’s a big deal.

LAST week the world shockingly learned that tens of thousands of Irish children were physically and emotionally abused, beaten, raped and even, survivors say, killed in Catholic Church-run reform schools throughout Ireland from the 1920s right through to the 1990s. After a nine-year investigation, the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse in church-run institutions produced its final 2006 page report last week. The report makes it clear that hundreds of priests and nuns terrorized and humiliated tens of thousands of Irish children over six decades with the tacit support of the Irish

Floods of Irish students are expected to descend upon New York and the surrounding areas in the coming weeks for their annual summer of fun.

James Moore (17-2) beat Joseph De Los Santos (4-4-3) by unanimous decision at Plattduetsche Park Restaurant, Franklin Square, Long Island Friday night.

Light middleweight James Moore (16-2) will make his ring return this Friday night when he fights Joseph De Los Santos (4-3-3) in a six round contest.

An American cop has joined the Irish police force - and won awards along the way

A group of New Jersey students have come up with some solutions to Ireland's economic problems.

An Irish restaurant in New York is to get a remake courtesy of foul-mouth chef, Gordon Ramsey, for his show, "Kitchen Nightmares."

Al Capone may have been a notorious gangster, but he also had a tender side: A song he wrote for his Irish wife will be released next month.

Unbeaten middleweight John Duddy (26-0, 17 KOs) fights Billy Lyell (18-7, 3 KOs) at the Prudential Center in Newark this Friday night .

An Irish American matchmaker based on Long Island promises to find the perfect match for a single mother, and just in time for Mother’s Day.

The Department of Homeland Security has postponed the deportation of former IRA member Malachy McAllister. McAllister, who served three years in prison in Northern Ireland for activities related to a shooting of a police officer, is allowed to remain in the U.S. until March 2010, at which time his case will be reviewed again.

Emanuel Steward is confident that middleweight Andy Lee (17-1, 13kos) will be back in action in New York City this June, while James Moore will fight Joseph De Los Santos (4-3-3) on a Bob Duffy promoted card at Plattduetsche Park Restaurant, Franklin Square Long Island on May 8.