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Brooklyn, check your attic: Filmmakers need your Farrell's photos to finish...

“Why Farrell’s?” documentary nears finish line as filmmakers ask Brooklyn to help complete the story.

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Kneecap visit Portadown as Garvaghy Road stand off continues

Irish rap trio Kneecap have visited Portadown this Sunday evening to show their support for the residents of Garvaghy Road.

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The celeb-approved Irish baby name trend that is ideal for sentimental parents

There is an Irish baby name trend rising in popularity recently, and it’s such a cute option for parents looking to honor someone close to them while also choosing an Irish name.

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Tom Cruise's Irish roots run deeper than almost anyone in Hollywood

The actor born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV can trace his family in Ireland back roughly 800 years, from a Norman knight to a quiet parish in County Roscommon.

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Killary Harbor is Connemara's fjord and the quiet escape autumn was made for

Nine miles of deep Atlantic water cut between Galway and Mayo, complete with mussel rafts, resident dolphins and a famine road that still carries its story.

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Watch: Barry Keoghan leaves message after finding lost phone in park

Whoever lost their phone probably got the surprise of their life when they learned the people who found it were Barry Keoghan and Bobby Schofield.

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Flann O'Brien was born 115 years ago and his wit is as sharp as ever

Born in Strabane on October 5, 1911, the novelist and satirist behind "At Swim-Two-Birds" and "The Third Policeman" remains one of Ireland's strangest and funniest voices.

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On This Day: Frank Patterson, the Tipperary tenor who sang for the Pope and...

The beloved Irish tenor Frank Patterson not only sang for the Pope, but had a hand in teaching North Korean officials English.

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Colcannon is the Halloween dish that once told you who you would marry

The buttery mix of mashed potato and cabbage was once served with hidden charms that promised a wedding, a windfall, or another year on your own.

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Bob Geldof turns 75 and the Live Aid myth deserves a second look

The Dún Laoghaire boy who shamed the world into feeding Ethiopia also helped set loose the celebrity circus that came after him.

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On This Day: Five die in Guildford pub bombings 1974

Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, and Carole Richardson were wrongfully convicted of the Guildford Pub bombings which killed five.

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The old Irish coins in your drawer that could be worth up to €35,000

A handful of rare pennies, florins, and ten pence pieces minted between 1928 and 2000 now change hands for thousands of euros, and most families have no idea what to look for.

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The murderous highwayman behind Ireland's beloved "Whiskey in the Jar"

The rollicking ballad sung in pubs from Dublin to Boston began as a poem about Patrick Fleming, a robber hanged in 1650 who spared neither rich nor poor.

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The 1937 newspaper letters that show how Ireland once defended beating...

A run of letters in the Dublin Evening Mail during August 1937 captured parents, pupils and even a serving headmistress arguing openly about the flogging of girls as old as 19.

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Nominations are now open for 2026 IrishCentral Legal Elite Awards

Members of the public are invited to submit nominations for this year's celebration of Irish American legal excellence.

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Leo Varadkar says Israel should be expelled from UEFA

Speaking on the Path to Power podcast with Matt Cooper, Varadkar argued that Israel should never have been allowed to compete in European football in the first place.

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LISTEN: "You are what your mother is" - the bar line that led André...

A chance remark from a stranger in Washington Heights sent the New York ad man digging into a maternal line that runs back to Sligo and Dublin.

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Top US college golf teams to play in Northern Ireland for the first time ever

Up to 16 of America's leading Division I men's programs will tee it up at Galgorm Castle in County Antrim in September 2027, in what organizers say is a first for the sport.

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This Irish baby name has skyrocketed in popularity in the UK

We love an Irish baby name here in Ireland, of course. But how adorable is it that parents who don’t even live in this country are also now discovering our gorgeous monikers?

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German U-boat landed 28 rescued sailors in Kerry and Britain doubted Irish...

Eighty-seven years ago this Sunday, a submarine surfaced off Ventry and handed Kerry a story that London took as proof Ireland was quietly helping Hitler.

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