Monday is Martin Luther King day. In the year of The Gathering, wouldn’t it be amazing to discover he was Irish? He just might have been, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

US President Barack Obama’s eighth cousin Henry Healy became a casualty of the economic downturn yesterday after losing his job of seven years.

PHOTOGRAPHS of the first immigrant to arrive at New York’s Ellis Island have been unearthed almost 120 years after she landed in the United States from Ireland.

US presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s ancestry has been traced back to a shoemaker in a small Irish village.

RESEARCHERS have reportedly discovered the true descendants of an Irish girl who was the first person to pass through New York’s historic Ellis Island immigration centre.