Irish history isn't just one long cataloge of battles and privations. In the early Middle Ages the country's reputation was enviable throughout Europe.
Book review: "The Adoption Machine" by Paul Jude Redmond - Ireland, from the year it received it's independence in 1922, set the global standard for the mistreatment of single women and girls aged from 12 to 48, as well as the neglect or cruel mistreatment of their babies.
Irish writer and director Imelda O'Reilly has just been invited to the Cannes Film Festival where her latest project We're The Kids In America has been selected for development by the Cinefondation Atelier program.
Not many girls from the Bogside in Derry have ended up living in a fabulous mansion in Malibu, and no one is more surprised about it than the Derry girl it actually happed to, Roma Downey.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio del Toro snapped up the film rights to T.J. English's brilliant new book before it was written or published (it goes on sale March 20).
Jimmy Van Bramer has been Deputy Leader of New York City Council since 2009, one of the most high profile jobs in the city, where he was overwhelmingly reelected for another four year term in 2014
Here's a truth not yet universally acknowledged, Northern Ireland, the only part of the U.K. that has a land border with the European Union, ruinously complicates Britain's proposed Brexit withdrawal.
