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St Patrick’s Day
Guinness and Boyzone diplomacy: How Irish Embassies exercise soft power around the world
Internal study gives an insight into how Department of Foreign Affairs views Irish influence abroad
Am I Irish-ish? I’m not not Irish. Being second-generation Irish in Britain is complicated
Us second-generation Irish in Britain, raised with back-home accents and framed aerial photos of bungalows - who are we really?
A tale of two trials: how a Boston jury came to find a Dublin firefighter guilty of rape
Terence Crosbie faces a sentence up to 20 years in prison at a hearing on October 30th after his conviction on Friday
‘Go to any reasonably sized town in Japan and you’ll find an Irish pub’: The Japanese fans of Irish culture
Tokyo boasts regular Comhaltas traditional music sessions and an annual St Patrick’s Day parade, while Enya and Riverdance have strong Japanese followings
Consumer spending rose but card activity dipped on St Patrick’s Day, says Revolut
Nearly seven million transactions were made from March 15th to 17th, with bars, cafes and restaurants seeing the biggest rise, Revolut says
John Rocha loses his calm in Killiney as he objects to ‘Trojan horse’ development
Plus: Olivia O’Leary wants to save the snails; An Post chief accuses WHO of anti-Irish message; and Ryanair enters the culture wars in Germany
How official Ireland is preparing for a possible US-EU trade war
The working assumption had been that Trump would use the threat of tariffs to get people around the table, but that has changed
Rosie O’Donnell apologises to Micheál Martin for being dragged into her feud with Donald Trump
Taoiseach was questioned about actor and comedian, who now lives in Howth, during visit to the White House
The inside story of how Conor McGregor secured his meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office
Conor McGregor’s short encounter with US president Donald Trump amounted to little more than a photo op
At home the DUP spurns Irishness, but when abroad it embraces it
The party’s code-switching in the US recently plays to negative stereotypes of unionism as a shallow identity. But could it be a response to a deeper shift?
More Guinness diplomacy from Keir Starmer as he hosts Irish party in Number 10
Eclectic guest list included drag queen Blu Hydrangea, broadcaster Dermot O’Leary and Olympic swimming champion Daniel Wiffen
Conor McGregor represents ‘very worst of toxic masculinity’ - Tánaiste
Garda criticises MMA fighter’s remarks on crime rates in Dublin in wake of contentious St Patrick’s Day visit to White House
Two killed on roads over bank holiday weekend as more than 500 cars seized
Garda road safety campaign catches 900 motorists speeding, some at more than twice the speed limit
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