Máirtín Ó Muilleoir is the publisher of the Belfast Media Group titles and of the Irish Echo in America.
He has been involved in journalism for over four decades and has penned columns for both that the Andersonstown News and the former daily Irish language newspaper Lá.
He is the author of several books in Irish and English including ‘Ceap Cuddles’ and ‘Belfast’s Dome of Delight’.
He has served in politics for Sinn Féin both in Belfast City Council and in the power-sharing Executive at Stormont.
As co-founder of events company Aisling Events, he has hosted a range of transatlantic conferences including the Big Irish Campfire, the New York-New Belfast Conference and the Belfast International Homecoming.
He is the proud recipient of a Honorary Doctorate from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, USA.
When veteran labor organizer Mike Casey addresses a meeting of San Francisco's Unite Here Local 2 union — drawn from the heavily immigrant Latino hotel and hospitality sectors — there aren't a lot of Irish faces looking back at him.
I know they say what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas but this is the exception that proves the rule because I want to thank Bostonian and President of the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) in North America Ed Kelly for hosting a gathering last night in the Neon City of fire service pension leaders to discuss investments in the North of Ireland and Border Counties.
Irish immigrant Hugh McConnell was the last person to make knives in San Francisco — 160 years ago. But now a cutting-edge company, with its own connection to Ireland, plans to bring back the tradition — and in the process may provide a lesson on the key role of manufacturing in the revival of American cities.
They feel they have waited patiently while the Irish government has prioritised major centres for the diaspora across the globe but now the Irish of San Francisco are insisting on being moved to the front of the line.
A journalist's journalist with a bloodhound's nose for a great story and a strong working class sensibility, Jim McDowell, who passed away earlier this week, will enjoy many much-deserved plaudits the many eulogies penned in his honour.
There is a popular song about the seditious Irish, as seen through the lens of the man from the Daily Mail which includes the cautionary line, "oh, Ireland is a very funny place, sir/It's a strange and troubled land".
Sailing halfway around the world in a whaling ship to rescue Fenian rebels rotting in an English penal establishment has all the ingredients of a cracking thriller — boundless courage, chain gangs, near-drownings and cool heads being only the half of it — which begs the question why this monumental feat is not more well-known.
Bureaucratic blocks on housing development are making it impossible to build much-needed homes.
Ba é an file agus rapadóir Pádaí de Cléir a chuir an lasair liteartha sa bharrach ag ceiliúradh Imram, 'Tionscadal Bhéal Feirste' in Áras Mhic Reachtain aréir.
Chuir an t-iriseoir Gearóid Ó Muilleoir na haoi-chainteoirí Caitríona Nic Sheáin agus Andy Whitston as na foilsitheoirí tSnáthaid Mhór i láthair ag cruinniú mhí an Mhárta de Chiorcal Gnó Iarthar Bhéal Feirste.
In an attic space of An Chultúrlann at the heart of Belfast's Gaeltacht Quarter, an imaginary world of nice-as-ninepence Ninjas and delectable dinosaurs – with the odd Gingerbread Girl thrown in for good measure – is busy being born.
In two pivotal St Patrick's Day messages, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has praised the Irish spirit of resistance and solidarity - and blasted the British for honing its colonial ambitions in Ireland.
Bricfeasta Gnó: Caitríona N`ic Sheáin & Andy Whitson, Bunaitheoirí An tSnáthaid Mhór, Foilsitheoirí Leabhair
‘Béal Feirste Cois Cuain — cathair na nGael is na nGall, cathair an tsaibhris agus na bochtaineachta, cathair an ghrá agus na gruaime’: b’shin an chur síos a bhí ag an scéalaí Liam Mac Carráin ar a chathair dhúchais.
When retired attorney and Vietnam veteran John J. Reilly got the call to join a group of Fordham law grads heading to the El Paso Detention Center in Texas, to aid beleaguered immigrants facing deportation, he felt he had to say yes.