The final survivor of the Berkeley balcony collapse is officially on her way home to Ireland, it has been confirmed.

The company behind the construction of the Berkeley apartment complex where six Irish students died in a balcony collapse last month has filed for a restraining order against the district attorney investigating the tragedy.

Aisling Brady McCarthy, the Irish nanny accused of murdering a baby in her care, has been granted bail.

Aogán Ó Fearghail didn’t recognise Emma Mundy immediately.

Next week in New York the county board’s centenary celebrations will end on a high note with the launch of the extensively researched Fergus Hanna 100-year history of the GAA in New York, writes John Riordan.

Students from Ireland who trashed a rented house while on a working holiday in San Francisco have been condemned by Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan.

Local news described the students - allegedly Irish - as 'nightmare renters'.

A land lady based in San Francisco has accused a group of students, identified as Irish, of causing thousands of dollars worth of damage to her property.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has reacted angrily to Micheál Martin’s assertion that the bank guarantee was the “least worst option” available to the former government in 2008.

Men At Lunch, the documentary inspired by the iconic photograph taken during the construction of New York’s Rockefeller Center, received its cinematic release in New York yesterday, 81 years to the day since 11 steelworkers nonchalantly posed on a beam dizzyingly high above Manhattan.

An Irishman has told how he prayed for three hours as he waited for his wife after two bomb blasts ripped through the Boston Marathon, killing at least three people.

Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, are now confirmed as dead and more than 100 are injured after two blasts at the finishing line of the Boston Marathon yesterday.

It has been claimed that former Bohemians and Dundalk manager Sean Connor is currently living in financially-straitened circumstances in South Africa after being deported from Zimbabwe over visa complications.

The treacherous Yangtze, a lost raft and a health scare didn’t stop two Irishmen on an incredible journey across Asia, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

A 23-YEAR-old Canadian student, accused of attacking and injuring a French doctor in Dublin’s Temple Bar, has been allowed to return on bail to his home in Quebec.

Efforts are underway to bring home the body of the young Irish man who died in a plane crash in New Zealand over the weekend.

IT was amusing to read of the recent use of fake Irish passports in various international capers.

BORD Bia has opened new offices in New York beefing up Ireland’s presence in the US.

Relatives of an Irishman killed by police in the US state of Oregon viewed the body and said he was shot at least seven times.

A Clare man whose partner is accused of hiring a hitman to kill him and his two sons has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that he found it “very, very, very hard to believe” that she was guilty of the charges.

FAMILY and friends of an Irish backpacker missing in South America say the discovery of his rucksack in a hostel in El Calafate in Argentina has renewed hopes that he is still alive.

THE family of plane crash victim Aaron Toland arrived in Thailand yesterday to begin the process of bringing his body home.

THE specially erected bars and tents are in situ for the Irish invasion at the Bordeaux Rugby Village on the banks of the Garonne — but all was quiet yesterday afternoon.

MUNSTER RUGBY may not have been born in the USA, but the official final run–in to their new season began in Chicago yesterday.

AN Irish woman on hunger strike to protest her innocence of involvement in laundering money from the Northern Bank raid was in correspondence with the Minister for Foreign Affairs weeks before the robbery.

UNDER nationality law from 1956 anyone with an Irish great-grandparent, grandparent or parent was eligible for citizenship by descent.

AN Irish citizen living in the US has drowned in a swimming accident.

There are worries over the location of some Irish citizens caught up in the disaster stricken US city New Orleans, a Government minister said today.

Evelyn Ring and Caroline O’Doherty

THREE years ago, when I decided to get married, I left my family and my job in Romania to move to Ireland to be with the man I loved.

The body of a Northern Ireland doctor killed in a climbing accident in New Zealand is expected to arrive in Belfast later today.

ITALIAN police searching for the 18-month-old son of a Kerry mother believe the child is still in the Naples area with his Romanian father.

THE New York GAA has formally launched its project to build a state of the art stadium on 25 acres of prime Manhattan real estate.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has told all Irish residents in Iraq and Kuwait to leave those countries immediately, following last night's threat of war by the United States against Iraq.

The remains of a Co Sligo man, who died in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York, have been recovered.

Aer Lingus said all flights will operate as normal to and from the United States today.

The Irish consulate in New York is currently trying to establish if any Irish citizens were on board the American Airlines flight which crashed in New York today.

Seven days after the US atrocity, hopes are fading for up to 20 Irish people missing in the rubble of New York’s World Trade Centre.

The families of some of the Irish people missing in the World Trade Centre terrorist attack last week, have begun arriving in New York.