The Corrs are living proof that absence really does make the heart grow fonder, enjoying the kind of enraptured response that only a lengthy break can create.

It was not just the GAA that provided a link between Irish sporting organisations and the 1916 Rising, writes Kevin McCarthy

LONDON is a kaleidoscopic — an ever-changing city as more and more people make it home. 

Kya deLongchamps looks at some of the most extravagant gifts in history.

It began with the creation of the catch-all concept (a legal freak) of a migrant’, which obscures the difference, central to the law, between economic and political migration, between people escaping poverty and people driven from their homes by war.

In an affluent city of Northern Europe, the beautiful people bask in the sun beside rivers and lakes.

In just a few hours, the oldest living person born in Ireland will make history and become the longest living Irish person ever.

A 113 year-old Irish woman, currently living in New York, is on course to become the oldest person in Irish history in just over a month.

Today one Irish lady in New York is celebrating a special birthday.

Jennifer Hough says Nova Scotia’s Irish immigrant influences are obvious, but it also has its own charm.

Hollywood may be hoping for less drama in 2014. 2013 was a tale of two cinemas.

The Statue of Liberty has reopened to the public after New York state agreed to shoulder the costs of running the site during the US federal government shutdown.

Gangs of New York in Kenmare, must rank as one of the more unusual gatherings in 2013.

One of Cork’s hi-tech leaders hopes to triple its staff numbers and develop a European research and development centre over the next few years.

Waterford Writers Weekend, which runs from Mar 21-24, is a relative newcomer among literary festivals.

People around the world with well-known Kerry names are being targeted by tourism interests to visit the county during next year’s Gathering event.

I thought rip-off Ireland was gone but, unfortunately, no one told the powers that be in Croke Park.

FLYING 3,000 miles to drown the shamrock, blurt out the cúpla focail and watch a St Patrick’s Day parade seems a strange way for an Irish holidaymaker to spend hundreds of euro.

Scores waved tiny flags after taking the oath of US citizenship at the foot of the Statue of Liberty on Friday, 125 years after the iconic American symbol welcoming visitors and immigrants was dedicated.

A Renegade History of the United States

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.

IF YOU want to lead the next generation of Irish entrepreneurs, then you’d better get your skates on, because you have just a few days in which to get your application on the desk of the Endeavour people.

Divers pulled a helicopter and four more bodies out of New York’s murky Hudson River in their search for victims, wreckage and explanations from the mid-air collision of a sightseeing helicopter and a light aircraft that killed nine people.

Two bodies have been recovered so far after a small plane collided with a tour helicopter over the Hudson River near Manhattan today.

THERE is something quaintly charming, something from the times of duelling pistols and public hangings, child chimney sweeps and deportation to Van Diemen’s Land for snaring a rabbit, about the notion that members of the judiciary might make “voluntary contributions” in lieu of the public service pension levy.

The New York grave of an Irish woman who was the first emigrant to pass through Ellis Island has been marked with a Celtic cross.

THE final resting place of the first immigrant through America’s Ellis Island has at last been marked — 84 years after her death.

ANNIE MOORE has achieved a significance in death that she would never have imagined possible in her lifetime. She was the first immigrant through America’s Ellis Island and her grave in New York was marked this weekend, 84 years after her death.

CRUISE liner business is worth an annual €46 million to the Munster region, but the Port of Cork is determined to up that figure with an innovative marketing campaign.

THE first immigrant to arrive on America’s Ellis Island over a century ago is to finally get a headstone over her unmarked grave.

THE news that Ireland is to pay more than €90 million a year in child benefits to EU nationals whose dependants do not live in this country is just another punctuation mark in the evolution of our society.

A charming coming-to-America tale of an Italian family at the turn of the last century, fetching up at New York's Ellis Island and facing the ordeal of making it past the barriers to the promised land.

A STUNNING exhibition of haunting century-old images of American immigrants opened in Cork last night.

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.

US president George Bush has embarked on nearly 24 hours of sombre observances at the three sites where 9/11 terrorists wrought death and destruction and transformed his presidency.

Martin Scorsese offered his moviemaking talent today to a campaign to reopen the Statue of Liberty to the public.

Martin Scorsese offered his moviemaking talent today to a campaign to reopen the Statue of Liberty to the public.

The 300-foot-long bright orange Staten Island ferries move about 70,000 people a day for free between the island and lower Manhattan.

PRESIDENT Bush stood beside a Pentagon rebuilt to mourn on this new September 11 the murder of so many innocents a year ago and, in their memory, he commanded the United States military to victory in the war the terrorists began.

President Bush vowed victory in the “first great struggle of a new century” today as he led the United States in marking shattering terrorist attacks of one year ago.

A MINUTE’S silence will mark a million screams today as the country stands still to remember the dead of the September 11 attacks.