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.
Founder of the Argento chain of jewellery shops Pete Boyle has told a West Belfast gathering that investing in the city centre doesn’t add up anymore due to soaring construction costs.
Hugh Cormican is a local success story.
I bpáirtnéireacht le Mozilla Common Voice, tá Údarás na Gaeltachta ag cur cuiridh ar an phobal Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta páirt a ghlacadh i gcruthú corpais* labhartha Gaeilge poiblí a bheidh ar fáil saor in aisce agus gan aon srianta úsáide. Tá corpais nó bailiúcháin mór labhartha sa Ghaeilge ríthábhachtach d’fhorbairt uirlisí teicneolaíochta teanga, a deir na saineolaithe.
Ça fait 11 ans que je suis à Halifax. J'en ai rapporté de beaux souvenirs, notamment ce billet de C$10.
Amhail gach bliain eile beidh na taibhealaíona ag croílár na féile ag Oireachtas na Samhna 2025 i mBéal Feirste agus tá sraith comórtas do dhaoine óga agus do dhaoine fásta ar chlár na féile.
They are Ireland's two greatest saxophonists — both tracing their fame right back to the showband era of the 1960s — but when they met up at the Belfast International Homecoming gala, it was the first time they had been in the same room since the 1960s.
If there's a soundtrack to the tectonic plates of Irish history separating in the bitter Hunger strike year of 1981, it would be Moving Hearts' eponymous album of that momentous year.
A new West Belfast artwork celebrating some of the founders of the Shaws Road Gaeltacht has been launched with support from the US-based Irish language Foundation, Mary’s Gift.
'Wild Colonial Boys' by Thomas Paul Burgess, a native of Protestant North Belfast and one-time drummer with punk pioneers Ruefrex, is the best-written of four musical memoirs I have binged on over recent weeks (reviews to follow).
A new Open University archive project spotlighting the decommissioning of arms as part of the peace process is to be unveiled next week as part of Féile an Phobail.
Gabe Megahey (82), one of a group of Irish republicans known as the "deportees" who had been allowed by President Clinton to remain in America, has been ordered to leave the United States by way of a letter from the Department of Homeland Security.
Flax Café beside St John's Chapel on the Falls Road has reopened its doors just as the tourism influx peaks.
At today's opening of Teach Chluain Ard, new home to the West Belfast Partnership Board, Finance Minister John O'Dowd rejected claims that "democracy was continuing to fail" in the North.
Michael McAdam believes in dreams - even if they are the very stuff of movies. In fact, especially if they are the stuff of movies.
IF you want to judge the values of any society, you could do worse than ask how well it funds its libraries.