Long Island

Tom McCarthy, from Limerick, lives in Babylon, Long Island, and runs a bakery in Brooklyn. The day we meet he has to push back our appointment becau(...)

Two years ago, then New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy took three days’ paternity leave when his wife Tori gave birth. The decision to miss ga(...)

Republican White House hopeful Ted Cruz has vowed to hunt down illegal Irish immigrant “Tommy O’Malley” and deport him as an example of how he would d(...)

Fr Raphael Annan: arrived from Ghana, 2014 When Fr Raphael Annan first mentioned to his father that he wanted to enter the seminary, he was told he(...)

New York city has slowly emerged from a massive blizzard that paralysed much of the US east coast, while snowy gridlock gripped the nation’s capital (...)

New York lifted a travel ban and mass transit started getting back to normal on Sunday after a record-setting blizzard in the US Northeast, but Washin(...)

A monster blizzard that has paralysed the US east coast intensified on Saturday afternoon as it barrelled into New York City, prompting a travel ban o(...)

Washington DC and Baltimore were under blizzard warnings on Thursday and states of emergency were declared across the east coast of the US as preparat(...)

An eight-year-old boy left severely disfigured after a group of chimpanzees attacked him and two other boys as they played in the Democratic Republic (...)

The average cost of a three-star hotel in Manhattan south of Harlem through Booking. com was $241 a night, more than twice as much as I’ve ever paid (...)