The census figures for Northern Ireland released last September show Catholics, broadly understood, at 45.7 percent, and Protestants or people brought up in the Reformation culture at 43.5 percent. Ten years earlier, the figures were 48.45 percent Protestant and 45.1 percent Catholic. The statelet that was officially designed in 1920…
March 2023 marks the 25-year anniversary of The Craic Fest, New York’s brightest annual celebration of Irish film and culture. Like many of the best New York stories, New York’s long-running Craic Film and Music Fest began with a chance meeting. In 1998 now Festival Director Terence Mulligan, then a…
The Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022 has officially become law in Northern Ireland after the bill received Royal Assent on Tuesday, December 6. The Irish language now has official recognition in Northern Ireland for the first time ever. The bill will create a new office for an Irish…
‘Row Hard or Go Home,’ a team of nine Irish rowers, and ‘Nothing Ventured,’ a solo Irish rower, will undertake the Talisker Atlantic Ocean Race this December, attempting to row 4,800km unsupported across the Atlantic Ocean in support of Irish charities. ‘Row Hard or Go Home‘ is represented by nine Irish…
Kevin McCarthy, who has been House Minority Leader in the US House of Representatives since 2019, is likely to become Speaker of the House of Representatives when the next session of Congress convenes in January. McCarthy, a Republican, cruised to re-election in California’s 20th district during the recent 2022 midterms…
Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll, an Irish immigrant hitman in the US, died on February 8, 1932. The United States has always opened its arms to the huddled masses of Irish men and women, who have left their native land for a better life, and most have repaid this hospitality many…
Hundreds of people marched through Dublin City Centre on Saturday afternoon to mark the tenth anniversary of Savita Halappanavar’s death, with activists pledging to launch a campaign for a permanent memorial. Halappanavar died on October 28, 2012, at Galway University Hospital after suffering a septic miscarriage for which she was…
Grab yourself a cushion to hide behind, throw on Netflix or wherever you stream and be prepared to be terrified. The Irish make a great horror movie. I mean, the landscape itself just instantly lends itself to the horror genre and combines that with the rich and terrifying Irish folklore…
Brendan Gleeson was joined by his “Banshees of Inisherin” co-star Colin Farrell during his first-ever appearance as Saturday Night Live host on Saturday night. Delivering a five-minute opening monologue, Gleeson introduced himself as “the fella that you’ve seen in that thing that you’ve seen that you can’t remember but you…
Several people are understood to be trapped following a major explosion at a gas station in Donegal. Emergency services are responding to an incident that took place at an Applegreen Service Station in the village of Creeslough shortly after 3 pm on Friday, October 7. A number of apartments near…