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Over thirty horses could end up homeless after the Housing Preservation and Development agency issued an order to Shamrock Stables to vacate their premises on 45th Street in Manhattan by the end of 2009.

After receiving the call from God when he was just 16, Christopher Heanue, the youngest child of Irish immigrants based in New York took his first class at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome on Monday, October 12 on the long road to becoming a priest.

News from the 32: Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Derry, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Fermanagh, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Tyrone, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow

News from the 32: Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Derry, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Fermanagh, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Tyrone, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow

  Introduction Ireland is an island on the western fringe of Europe between latitude 51 1/2 and 55 1/2 degrees north, and longitude 5 1/2 to 10 1/2 degrees west. Its greatest length, from Malin Head in the north to Mizen Head in the south, is 486 km and its greatest width from east to west is approximately 275

Irish WBA super bantamweight world champion Bernard Dunne wants to dedicate the first defense of his WBA belt to the late Darren Sutherland at the O2 Arena on Saturday night -- with a victory over Thailand’s Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym a fitting tribute.

Olympic Bronze medalist Darren Sutherland was buried Monday after a funeral mass at St. Mary’s Church in Navan.

Tragic Irish boxer Darren Sutherland was supposed to see a top psychologist the same day he was found dead in London. The 27-year-old Olympic star had been on the verge of giving up boxing, saying that he felt adrift in the boxing world. His trainer, Brian Lawrence, said that Sutherland had "poured his heart out" just 10 days ago over his fears for his future.

News from the 32: Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Derry, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Fermanagh, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Tyrone, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow

Irish actor Pierce Brosnan’s childhood home in Navan, County Meath is set to be demolished. The now abandoned house, called Boyne Crest, will be knocked down along with two other houses and will be replaced with an apartment complex.

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.

Bits and bobs from newspapers across Ireland's 32 counties, North and South.

Hundreds of Irish fans have joined the crowds descending on the City of Angels to say farewell to the king of pop. Aer Lingus was said to have completely sold out all flights from Dublin to Los Angeles for today and yesterday as heartbroken fans made their way from Ireland to the West Coast. The special memorial service has been totally over subscribed with more than 1.6 million people registering for just 9,000 tickets.

After catching the eyes of several AFL scouts, 17-year-old Kildare minor Gaelic footballer Paul Cribbin has been training with the Collingwood Magpies Aussie Rules Football club.

Funnymen Tommy Tiernan, Ardal O’Hanlon and Dylan Moran are the ultimate comedy triple threat, and they're about to take New York by storm when they play the Town Hall on June 11. Headliner Tiernan talks to IrishCentral about New York, cracking jokes and who he really wants to make laugh.

Irish actor Pierce Brosnan caused a media storm at the White House Tuesday as he took in a tour while meeting with staff to discuss the preservation of whales.

Irish activist in U.S. in bid to drum up support for campaign against highway at Tara

Recently the Irish language station in Ireland, TG4, released the names of the annual winners of their prestigious Gradam Cheoil Awards now in their 12th year. As usual their panel of selectors in the know zoned in on some extraordinary talent in traditional Irish music today whose work exemplifies both the quality and spirit of Irish music that keeps it thriving where ever you find it. The announcement was made in the newly re-designed and constructed Wexford Opera House two weeks ago, where the actual award ceremony will take place in a live performance and presentation on Friday night, April 4 and in a delayed broadcast on TG4 on Easter Sunday, April 12 (www.

CELEBRATED Irish folk singer and New York resident Susan McKeown is spearheading a Saturday, September 22 protest outside the Irish Consulate on Park Avenue to stop the new M3 motorway development from passing near to the Hill of Tara, the ancient seat of the high kings of Ireland located in Co. Meath.

Also scheduled to speak at the planned protest is award winning Irish poet and professor of the humanities at Princeton University, Paul Muldoon.

Already a sellout star in Ireland and Britain, Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan's new special on Comedy Central will finally introduce him to a nationwide U.S. audience.

THE economic experts seem to be having trouble deciding whether or not we are officially in a recession for some reason, but you can be sure that a whole lot of big ticket items will not purchased this holiday season because everyone's spending power is reduced.

One alternative is a wide selection of "little ticket" offerings for seasonal concerts which are in abundance if Irish music is what you pine for the year long. Gathering with family and friends and enjoying a live Christmas show, Celtic style, has that old-fashioned appeal that could help overcome the economic doldrums and remind us that it is a season of hope after all.

Former Irish Workers' Party Leader Sean Garland, wanted in the U.S. in connection with counterfeiting money, was released on €100,000 bail in Dublin on Friday, February 13.

The New Year brought Ireland's most severe jobs crisis in several decades, with the giant Dell organization switching its entire computer manufacturing operation from Limerick to Poland, Waterford Wedgwood going into receivership, and Tara Mines under severe pressure. Limerick reeled last week as its largest employer, Dell, announced it was laying off 1,900 workers over the next year as it moves manufacturing to a new plant at Lodz in Poland as part of a massive global cost-cutting operation The company, the largest exporter in the Republic, also said that about 1,500 jobs in firms which directly supply the plant are at risk. Local business leaders claimed the knock-on effects could affect up to 7,000 jobs in other industries.

Nostalgia is big business this side of the world right now, even as the future looks a lot less rosy than our immediate Celtic Tiger past. In and around Christmas time the biggest hits at the office parties were the songs of yesterday, the golden oldies that are the dance floor staple at any Irish gathering. Abba are right up there as kings and queens of the genre, heroes to the generations who hark back to their glory days in the eighties.

IN the end we did what we always do in such circumstances -- we sought out the sanctuary of the usual to celebrate the very unusual.

Paddy O'Shea's is, as you've probably guessed, an Irish bar. Not any old Irish bar but the newest -- and the best -- Irish bar in Beijing, capital city of the Olympic Games for the past three weeks.

The names O'Byrne and O'Beirne (or Byrne and Beirne), often regarded as variants of the same root, are, in fact, totally different. O'Byrne is derived from the Gaelic O'Broin meaning "descended from Bran", the 11th century King of Leinster. The O'Byrnes were chieftains of what is now County Kildare until the Norman invasion when they were driven from their lands into the mountains of County Wicklow.

The Boyne Valley is home to some of Ireland's most important archeological landscapes. The most famous - Newgrange - predates the Pyramids by hundreds of years. Not to mention the river which runs through the area giving the Boyne Valley its name. Join Andy Spearman on a stroll through this heritage area.