There is a significant Irish presence on a Southern separatist group known as the League of the South that calls itself Anglo-Celtic and has been featured on the Glenn Beck show on Fox News. Now, The Huffington Post has attacked the group as racist and Beck for allowing them to appear on his show.

The former president of the High Court, Justice Richard Johnson, has called for a referendum to reintroduce the recently abolished death penalty in Ireland.

The undocumented Irish community in the U.S. received a major boost today with the announcement from the White House that it will push forward with a legalization program. Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano said the Obama administration is seeking a "tough but fair pathway to earned legal status."

Members of the Irish community gathered at a memorial Mass in New York Thursday to remember Sen. Edward Kennedy just over 12 weeks after his death. The senator’s son, Edward Kennedy Jr., Christine Quinn, Speaker of New York City Council, and Irish Consul General Niall Burgess were among those present.

The undocumented Irish have picked up a key new supporter in Congress. Congressman Bill Delahunt (D-MA) has pledged to support the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform and its efforts on behalf of the undocumented Irish in the U.S.

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.

THE promise of immigration reform benefiting the undocumented Irish in America took a quiet but very important step forward in Washington, D.C. last week with a pivotal meeting between Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Ciaran Staunton, president of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) and South Carolina Ancient Order of Hibernians board member Jim Lawracy.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a suit at the State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Thursday against Michael Mahoney, 42, for withholding wages from workers and discriminating against minority workers.

“Harry Potter” star Evanna Lynch is headlining part of a grassroots effort to keep same sex marriage legal in the state of Maine.

Tony-winning Irish actor Jim Norton has returned to Broadway in Finian’s Rainbow, a joyful big-budget revival of a golden-era classic that’s become that rare thing: an almost critic-proof Broadway musical. Cahir O'Coherty talks to the veteran Irish actor and his A-list Broadway castmates about starring in the most hotly-anticipated show of the season.

Undocumented Irish immigrants have been given new reason to hope that immigration reform is on President Obama's agenda. This follows a report in The New York Times that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency has quietly begun preparing for an expected upsurge in its workload.

An Irish film-maker has called on U.S. authorities to ban Irish comic Tommy Tiernan. Louis Lentin, the former head of drama at the national broadcaster, RTÉ, said Tiernan should be denied a visa for his shows in the U.S. in October.

Controversial rock star Bob Geldof infuriated female delegates at the Global Irish Forum in Dublin Saturday when he told deputy Prime Minister Mary Coughlan that she had lovely legs. Coughlan visibly blushed when Geldof made his announcement and there was an audible gasp from members of the audience. Geldof "went way over the line," said one female delegate who asked not to be named. "That was a blatantly sexist remark about a woman who is doing a professional job at the very highest level."

New York local politics will get a major Irish boost on Tuesday when Deirdre Feerick, a second-generation Irish American, squares off against two other Irish-American candidates in the September 15 Democratic primary election in Queens to succeed well known Council Member Eric Gioia who has endorsed her.

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.

Cahir O'Doherty: While Ted Kennedy’s passing is being mourned by the nation, there’s real anxiety in the gay and lesbian community about who — and whether — anyone of his stature will come along to replace him. Real heroes are hard to find.

Senator Edward Kennedy - who freely acknowledged that his own family would not be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. now - was a real champion for the undocumented Irish.

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.

Stella O'Leary: Recently in The Irish Times, writer Niall Stanage declared the demise of the Irish vote in America. Stanage, from a Unionist background, may be working with an image of an earlier time, when all Irish American political needs were met by political dynasties, the Kennedys, the O'Neills, the Dodds, and in Chicago, the Daleys.

On a visit to Mexico on Monday, President Barack Obama told reporters that immigration reform would have to wait until next year, although movement will begin on the contentious issue in fall.

Undocumented Irish immigrants in the U.S. are cautiously optimistic about immigration reform after President Barack Obama said he would provide a "pathway to citizenship" for illegal immigrants. Speaking in Mexico yesterday, President Barack Obama said he wanted to provide a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

US President Barack Obama has defended his decision to honor Ireland's former president, Mary Robinson, with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. The award for Robinson, the highest the U.S. can bestow on a civilian, has been bitterly attacked by the influential Israeli lobbying group AIPAC

A pro-Israel lobbying group blasted President Obama's decision to grant a top honor to former Irish President Mary Robinson, accusing her of bias against the Jewish state.

The hopes of the Irish undocumented rose today amid reports from Washington that activists have stepped up their efforts for comprehensive immigration reform. They are calling on President Barack Obama to introduce legislation this

WITH VIDEOS: With mugs of beer and calm conversation, President Obama tried to get past a political uproar Thursday, hailing a "friendly, thoughtful" conversation with the black professor and Irish cop whose dispute had ignited a fierce debate over race in America.

The Irish government designated May 17, 2009 as the first National Famine Memorial Day. On that day, Irish people throughout the world remembered and honored the victims of Ireland’s Great Hunger

Though he’s happily lived with his male partner for more than 12 years, Irish Voice reporter CAHIR O’DOHERTY cannot marry because marriage and immigration laws don’t jibe in the U.S., and he’s wondering when they ever will.

Thomas Cahill’s most recent book, A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green (March 2009), is a departure from the Hinges of History series. Or is it?

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.

If New York Senator Charles Schumer has anything to do with it, the estimated 50,000 Irish undocumented in the U.S. will have an immigration bill to look forward to by the end of this year or early next.

Are will.i.am's leprechaun lyrics anti-Irish? The Black Eyed Peas singer says it's all in good fun but some Irish Americans say he's crossed a line. The band's new song, "Boom Boom Pow," includes lyrics which boast about how his beats are so big, "they be stepping on leprechauns."

There is new hope for the thousands of undocumented Irish in the U.S. with the news that Senator Charles Schumer intends to have a comprehensive immigration reform bill ready by Labor Day. Schumer (D-NY), who replaced Senator Edward Kennedy as the chair of the immigration sub-committee, is steering an immigration overhaul through the Senate. "I think we'll have a good bill by Labor Day," said Schumer, D-N.Y. "I think the fundamental building blocks are in place to do comprehensive immigration reform."

Republican N.Y. Congressman Peter King appeared on “The O’Reilly Factor” Wednesday night to defend his controversial “pedophile” remarks about Michael Jackson. King is sticking to his word, stating that he was simply saying “what millions of Americans really felt.”

Hope springs anew in the never-ending battle to win comprehensive immigration reform in the United States. The latest development saw President Barack Obama finally convene a top-level meeting of congressional leaders and key staffers to discuss how the issue might move ahead.

Victims of Church child abuse wept yesterday as Irish President Mary McAleese apologized for their suffering on behalf of the people of the Republic. “For so long, your suffering seemed to make strangers of you in your own land.”

The vast majority of the Romanian immigrants who were attacked last week by racist thugs are leaving Northern Ireland and returning to Romania, and the City Church in Belfast where they sought shelter last Monday has been vandalized.

President Barack Obama promised a complete overhaul of the immigration system at the Esperanza National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. today.

Race relations in Northern Ireland took a turn for the worse over the past few days when Romanian immigrants were forced to flee their homes on the Lisburn Road in Belfast after repeated attacks by racist hooligans.

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

In a case that one lawyer described as "one for the record books," a white couple in Northern Ireland are suing a fertility clinic after an in-vitro fertilization blunder caused the woman to give birth to a mixed-race baby.

In “The Rivalry,” a 1959 play by Norman Corwin now playing at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York, a riveting old argument is at the center of the work, and the debate is as potent today as it ever was -- the argument over human liberty and the survival of the United States itself.

The packed crowd at the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform meeting in Yonkers last week, including a sea of new faces, points out yet again the importance of the immigration lobby organization.

THERE was standing room only at Rory Dolan’s Irish restaurant in Yonkers on Wednesday, May 6, at an immigration meeting hosted by the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform. “There’s nothing going on in Ireland anymore. There are no jobs,” said Alan, 25, a native of Co. Limerick who has been working in New York for the past four months. “They say things are bad here, but I’ve still managed to find construction work. Not a hope of that in Ireland. There will be plenty more Irish coming over here very soon because it’s so bad. I hope ILIR is able to do something for them, and me.”

Ireland urgently needs to “harness the global Diaspora and to pull together high achievers from many different countries” says Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheal Martin in an exclusive interview with IrishCentral.com.

David Duke, the white supremacist who was once a leader of the Klu Klux Klan and a failed U.S. presidential candidate, is thinking about bringing his twisted brand of hatred to Ireland.

A pregnant British woman, who's mother lives in Ireland, faces the death penalty in Laos on charges of drug smuggling

Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin will launch The Senior Help Line USA at the New York Irish Center in Long Island City, Queens on Thursday.

AFL/CIO boss John Sweeney is “very optimistic” on achieving comprehensive immigration reform and wants to meet Irish groups on ways to bring it about. Sweeney, the son of Irish immigrants who settled in The Bronx spoke in an exclusive interview with Irish

The decision by Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter to change parties from the GOP to the Democrats bodes well for immigration reform, especially if the move provides a filibuster proof majority on the Democratic bill in the senate.

The Irish nun known as 'Mother Teresa of Philly' made No 49 on Time's 100 Most Influential People beating out Oprah, the Pope and Hillary Clinton. Bono didn't even make the cut!