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  1. Ireland faces massive clean-up bill for worst flooding in living memory
    November 20, 09

    When it rains it pours for the Irish. The country is facing a multi-million euro clean-up bill after some of the worst flooding in living memory.

  2. The McCain Keane clans
    September 13, 09

    The McCain family name originated in the Gaelic as O'Cathain, and is derived from Cathain, who was a ninth century ancestor of the King of Tara. Conchobar, son of Fergal Mac Mael Duin of the O'Neills, formed the O'Cahan sept, which came to be known as the "Warrior Clan of Ulster." The O'Cahan clan served as subordinate kings to the O'Neills who granted them the titles "King of Kianaght, King of Limavaday, and King of Fir-na-Creabh.

  3. The naked truth: Gay man strips for George Clooney at press conference
    September 09, 09

    Clooney has proved that he’s a red hot sex symbol all over the world, for both women and men. And some of the Irish-American actor’s admirers will go to extremes to show their love for him. Take the gay Italian man who decided to strip off his clothes and offer himself to Clooney in the middle of a press conference at the Venice Film Festival.

  4. Tree Museum in NYC inspired by Irish-born artist's love of nature
    August 05, 09

    Irish-born artist Katie Holten is encouraging New Yorkers to commune with nature this summer through her interactive Tree Museum, a public art project along the four-and-a-half-mile Grand Concourse that connects Manhattan to the north Bronx.

  5. The Blarney Stone is the dirtiest rock on the planet!
    June 17, 09

    With video: In news that may come as a shock to few, but not to anyone who has given the matter any serious thought, the Blarney Stone in County Cork has been named the world’s germiest tourist attraction.

  6. Venice Flop for Farrell
    March 10, 09

    OH, dear. Another movie, another bad review or should we say reviews for poor Colin Farrell. We speak of his latest, Cassandra's Dream, written and directed by Woody Allen and co-starring Colin and Ewan McGregor, which made its debut at the Venice Film Festival last week.

  7. Repeat No Marriage!
    March 10, 09

    CHARLIZE Theron and her Irish beau Stuart Townsend were at the Democratic Convention in Denver last week not for the sole purpose of cheering on Barack Obama, but rather to promote Stu's documentary Battle in Seattle which he made a couple of years back.

    The film, about the 1999 riots at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999, is set for limited release on September 19. Charlize, one of the stars of the flick, was none too pleased prior to the screening, however, when a photog from TMZ.

  8. Never Mind the Weather!
    March 09, 09

    Dublin: The wind and rain lashed furiously on the tarmac at Dublin Airport, rocking our Aer Lingus Airbus like a gondola exposed to the elements on a mountaintop. We hadn't packed any sun block for this post-Christmas 2000 family trip to Ireland, but no one had told us we'd be landing in the monsoon season. It had proved impossible to land at Shannon Airport in the west, where the storm was said to be really raging.

  9. Those We Lost
    March 09, 09

    Those We Lost

    Michael Joseph Daly

    Michael Joseph Daly, 83, died July 25 of pancreatic cancer in his home in Fairfield, Connecticut. A lieutenant and later a captain in the Army's Third Infantry Division, he was awarded the Medal of Honor from President Harry Truman on August 23, 1945. Credited with single-handedly fighting off and killing fifteen Germans as well as demolishing three machine-gun emplacements - one from ten yards away - during the battle for Nuremberg in the Second World War, he was evacuated the day after the heroic event after sustaining injuries from a bullet to the face in a separate firefight.

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