Máirtín Ó Muilleoir

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.

Latest Stories

Ukraine tech supremo to address Irish festival of innovation in show of solidarity

It's a long way from war-ravaged and weary Mariupol on the once-tranquil but now turbulent Sea of Azov to the splendid solitude of Mín Corrbhuic in the serene hills of Donegal but those two very different locations will be linked next week at a technology festival in Donegal being convened by Belfast's Aisling Events.

OPINION: It's time for unionists to quit praying for a miracle and make peace with their neighbours

There is a story told of a man whose house was sinking in a flood and who had to seek refuge in the upper rooms of his home.

GoFundMe appeal: Pounding Belfast pavements for Big Apple's homeless

You can play your part too by donating via the Irish Echo GoFundMe page supporting WIN NYC.

Salute to brave Ukraine as Irish 40 under 40 gather in New York

When the best and brightest of Irish America gather in New York each year to celebrate the achievements of the Irish Echo's 40 Under 40, glasses are often raised to those heroes of yesteryear who took on an Empire.

60 years after civil rights struggle, do black lives really matter in Birmingham, Alabama?

As a white man entering a black church in America, it's hard not to cast the shadow of Dylann Roof, the crazed racist who joined a Bible Study class in a famed African American church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 and proceeded to shoot dead all nine of his 'fellow-worshippers'.

The Alabama Irish: Flying the flag in the Deep South

As I left an evening reception at the Huntsville home of Michael and Lisa Bollinger, mainstays of the most active chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Alabama, I thanked them for putting out the Tricolour in my honor. "That's not for you," said Lisa, letting me down softly. "That flies every day."

LEABHAIR: Spotsolas úr-nua ar splancóirí na Gaeilge i Síolta

Tá éacht iriseoireachta is taighde déanta ag an iriseoir Ciarán Dunbar ina shárleabhar nua 'Síolta' a thugann léargas lom dúinn ar dhul chun cinn (nó a mhalairt) athbheochan na Gaeilge le 50 bliain anuas.

Bliain úr faoi mhaise daoibh - Happy New Year

The staff of the Andersonstown News, North Belfast News, South Belfast News and belfastmedia.com send New Year's greetings to our readers at home and abroad.

LEABHAIR: Ón Pholl Glas go Quito, siúlaí scéalach in Ecuadór

Is taistealaí den scoth é Pádraig Ó Maolchraoibhe mar tá suim aige sa duine daonna agus sa staid dhaonna – rud atá thar a bheith follasach sa chéad leabhar ón leabharbhách iomráiteach seo, Ar Chrios na Cruinne - Gael in Ecuadór.

LEABHAIR: Cur síos samhlaíoch ar shaol corrach ar na Machairí Móra

Seoid atá idir lámha againn sa leabhar mhíorúilteach seo as peann an Ghael-Mheiriceánaigh Pádraig Ó Mathúna is é ag tabhairt chothrom na féinne ar deireadh do sheanchaí as a phobal féin, Eoin Ua Cathail.

TRIBUTE/ÓMÓS: Irish speaking Liverpudlian who never walked alone

Liverpudlian Tony Birtill (67) who passed away last week hit many heights in a life tremendously well-lived.

Top Irish artist paints bleak picture of Quinnipiac museum closure

Ireland's top visual artist has branded the closure of The Museum of Ireland's Great Hunger by Quinnipiac University as "very depressing".

Picking up the pieces on both sides of pond

If hotelier John Fitzpatrick had the best line of the 2021 New York-New Belfast conference on 1 October and session chair David Gavaghan the best topic — a high speed rail line from Belfast to Dublin — then the best time was had by those who joined Rob Walsh's walking tour of the spectacular new Moynihan Train Hall.