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‘I’m always amazed by how many people want to learn Irish in New York’
- Work
- December 11, 2020, 05:00
Mastering her native language and culture has given Caoimhe Forde a key to the Big Apple. Originally from Leixlip in Co Kildare, Forde moved to Galway(...)

New York’s first black mayor David Dinkins dies aged 93
- US
- November 24, 2020, 11:16
David Dinkins, a barber’s son who became New York City’s first black mayor on the wings of racial harmony but who was turned out by voters after one t(...)

‘We will have Jameson if he wins’: Joe Biden voter in Tuam nursing home
- Irish News
- November 2, 2020, 02:23
Irish whiskey will be quaffed at Greenpark Nursing Home in Tuam no matter the outcome of the US presidential election. A resident of the Galway nursi(...)

US university investigating professor who apparently pretended to be black
- US
- September 5, 2020, 10:55
A university in the US is investigating the case of a history professor who apparently pretended to be a black woman for her entire career. In a blog(...)

New York’s not dead, but Covid-19 has laid bare deep-seated problems
- US
- August 29, 2020, 14:59
Shabazz Stuart was one year old when the TV sitcom Seinfeld first went on air, and seven when the much-loved show about nothing broadcast its final ep(...)

Mixed views about conviction of Aaron Brady in his old New York stomping ground
- Crime & Law
- August 16, 2020, 19:41
Woodlawn Heights is at the most northerly point of New York City; an odd-shaped jumble of streets bordered by a park and the Bronx river, and just a s(...)

Propped on a stool drinking cider at the bar of the Coachman’s Inn on New York’s Katonah Avenue in the Bronx in 2014, Aaron Brady thought back to the (...)

51 days on a ventilator: How ‘Miracle Larry’ survived coronavirus
- Health & Family
- July 24, 2020, 06:01
On Saturday, March 28th, Dawn Kelly got the phone call summoning her to the hospital to say goodbye to her husband, Larry. A palliative care social wo(...)

‘Pure talent only works with tenacity: you need both to survive’
- Work
- July 24, 2020, 05:00
New York Emmy Award-winning producer, programme leader and non-profit consultant Maura Kelly moved to the US from Killarney when she was just seven ye(...)

New Yorkers fear return of ‘bad old days’ after shootings surge
- US
- July 17, 2020, 15:26
The shooting death of one-year-old Davell Gardner at a barbecue in Brooklyn last Sunday evening was surely heartbreaking. It was also another ominous (...)