AOH Division 5 in Woodlawn will host its annual Spirit of 916 awards benefit on Sunday, October 21 at the Rambling House on Katonah Avenue and 236th Street, from 3-7 p.m.
If you were looking for profiles in courage last week you would not have found them among American politicians. Emma Mhic Mhathúna while dying herself likely helped save thousands of Irish women's lives.
Could more Irish American Catholics have been brought into a broader, progressive coalition? Some certainly ran into right-wing arms... but some were also pushed.
Priests in Ireland are being increasingly denied the right to retire, with increasing reports of elderly clerics being "bullied" into carrying on working beyond the age of 75.
What's next and what can we learn after the tragic death of Emma Mhic Mhathúna and the 221 women who were failed by the Irish government and the health system?
44 percent of the Northern Ireland people who voted to leave the European Union are prepared to see the peace process collapse to deliver their Brexit wish.
Tourism workers and smokers will help the homeless, school-goers and the health service after the Irish budget announced on Tuesday by Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe.
I'm quite proud of the fact that I heavily criticized the dreadful Conor McGregor in this space last year, not for his financial feats at all but for draping himself constantly in our proud Tricolor when raking in his brawling millions.
Scared of economic recovery and mono-culturalism, about to legalize abortion, embarrassed by racism, Theresa May's Tory's breaking at the seams... Ireland is living through strange times indeed.
Blinded by her pursuit of what is good for one section of unionism, DUP leader Arlene Foster is endangering the union itself by attacking the spirit and letter of the Good Friday Agreement.
The Bronx's original Irish theater company, Poor Mouth, is back this week with six new short plays collectively titled “Puttin’ On Your Shorts” at An Béal Bocht on 238th Street in the Bronx.
Irish in America are in need of a reminder of just how despised, just how desperate, just how foreign, their ancestors were. And all of that begins with the Famine Irish, streaming off of those coffins ships.
With the Ireland Presidential Election on Oct 26 it's already plain to see that there's little chance Michael D Higgins will be defeated and rightly so.
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster has said the Belfast Good Friday Agreement should not be considered untouchable in Brexit negotiations. She claimed it is not a sacrosanct piece of legislation.
The 21st annual Wall Street 50 dinner was hosted by Irish America magazine last week at the New York Yacht Club. The evening paid tribute to the country’s top Irish Americans working in the financial industry.
What the world is witnessing is a naked Brexit power-grab by Johnson at the expense of Ireland's 20-year-old peace process, with the Democratic Unionist Party aiding and abetting.
The Dublin UFC champ is not funny, is not clever and is now so predictable he's no longer shocking. Why can he not use his position to become a role model with real dignity and influence?
Crowley, the kind of politician you don't come across any more, has already moved on and knows what a cruel game politics can be, with 20 years of service behind him, he'll be back.
