This year marks the 200th anniversary of St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Australia and events organisers around the country are hoping to make it the biggest celebration yet.
In 1810, NSW Governor Lachlan Macquarie declared March 17 an official day of celebration for the Irish and those of Irish heritage. Since then, festivals and parades have [...]
Tommy Tiernan’s knack for attracting controversy is matched only by his propensity to put bums on seats. Are the two connected? Does it matter? AARON DUNNE spoke to the Meathman on the eve of his biggest Aussie tour to date.
Tommy Tiernan doesn’t court controversy. Or at least he says he doesn’t. Yet, everywhere he turns, [...]
One of the men responsible for the 2008 attack on David Keohane – a bashing that left the 29-year-old Corkman in a coma for seven months – has today admitted to his part in the incident but has denied that he ever intended to murder the young Irishman.
The case against Thomas Isaako, 21, from Bankstown, [...]
IRISH President Mary McAleese is to visit the World War I battlefield of Gallipoli in Turkey on March 24 to remember the 3,000 Irish soldiers who died there.
Mrs McAleese will dedicate a foundation stone of a proposed memorial to Irish casualties at a cemetery in the Suvla Bay area, where the 10th Irish Division were [...]
Irish Australian Deborah O’Neill has won her pre-selection battle with high profile MP Belinda Neal in the New South Wales seat of Robertson on the Central Coast.
The University of Newcastle lecturer and former Sydney Rose of Tralee’s next challenges is to retain the marginal seat at the next federal election, due later in the year.
The [...]
Perth mother-of-two Claire Murray will travel to Singapore with her Dubliner mum, Valerie for a potentially life-saving ‘live liver’ transplant.
The 24-year-old will die within months if she does not have the operation. However, she has been refused a place on the waiting list for a donor organ in her native Western Australia because she is [...]
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and opposition leader Tony Abbott will be the guests of honour at the Queensland Irish Association’s (QIA) St Patrick’s Eve Dinner in Brisbane on Tuesday, March 16, it has been revealed.
The country’s two leading politicians will attend the event in what is a major coup for the club, while visiting Irish [...]
They say laughter is the best medicine, and nothing could be closer to the truth when it comes to Des Bishop. The Ireland-based New Yorker has joked his way through the most difficult of times and come out the other side smiling, as he told AARON DUNNE.
Back in 2000, after being diagnosed with testicular cancer, [...]
The Ireland Fund has been forced to defend its administration costs after it was revealed that its former chief executive was paid almost $1m (US$800k) last year.
Kingsley Aikins stepped down from the role last month but remains on the payroll as a ‘consultant’.
Mr Aikins is well-known to the Irish community in Australia as a former [...]
The Republic of Ireland were out of luck once again as an own goal from Keith Andrews set Brazil on their way to a 2-0 victory at Emirates Stadium in London last night.
With the heartbreak of the Henry incident just beginning to fade away, there was more misfortune in this glamour friendly against the five-time [...]
