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.
Ulster's pre-eminent Irish language poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh says his latest anthology 'Gafa i nGaza' is his response to Israel's war on the beleaguered Palestinian people.
SEEING her bi-racial son Elliot (11) buffeted by "everyday racism" inspired South Belfast's Orla McKeating to launch a business focused on the inclusion of minorities.
Popular Irish language radio station Raidió Fáilte has been giving listeners the silent treatment due to an aerial malfunction.
A mother and son who have championed the prevention of gun violence were toasted at the Belfast International Homecoming in the city's historic Titanic Hotel this week.
In Birmingham, Alabama last week for the inaugural Irish Roundtable in the Magic City hosted by Aisling Events, I thought back 16 years to the initial New York-New Belfast annual conference. At that time, Belfast's links to the powerful American diaspora were in the doldrums.
For a while, I've been troubled by the absence of a forum for small businesses to meet, network and partner in West Belfast. For I'm a firm believer in the old adage that a problem shared is a problem halved - nothing like meeting fellow-entrepreneurs and (to use Brian Moran's term) 'passionate business owners' to discover new ways to tackle that cashflow problem, taxing staffing issue, blocked access to capital or challenging sales target which is giving you a headache.
Artificial Intelligence will upend our society and transform our economy over coming years.
The decision by a small band of community leaders in 1964 to set up Clonard Credit Union has brought returns beyond their wildest imagination.
Foras na Gaeilge has teamed up with the annual Aisling Awards extravaganza to find the Irish language group or individual activist most deserving of the coveted accolade.
NUMBED by the carnage in Gaza, North Belfast artist and Gaeilgeoir Pól Mag Uidhir asked himself what good would it do for his one voice to be raised against the Western-sanctioned slaughter.
A go-ahead group of St Gall's GAC female veterans have given age the red card by founding a Hens' Shed boasting a dizzying array of activities.
Schoolchildren protesting at the multi-million pound transit hub in West Belfast this week to demand recognition for the Irish language could well brand government bodies denying them parity of esteem as slow-learners.
In most American cities I go to they do a pretty respectable breakfast but in Birmingham, daybreak is their speciality - as you can see from the pic above.
Paul McCorry (75), who passed away last month, was a veteran community champion, housing rights trailblazer, charity worker and artist whose advocacy and activism helped transform West Belfast.
West Belfast parents struggling to raise their children in Irish have been praised for their "inspirational" efforts in a new report.