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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Former auxiliary bishop of Sydney, David Cremin, Australia’s much-loved Limerick-born cleric, celebrated his 80th birthday with a huge party in Sydney recently and a dream ride on a Harley Davidson as more than 400 people (including 21 of his relatives) attended the celebration at Hurstville.
The Irish Ambassador to Australia, Máirtín Ó Fainín, made a speech [...]
The New South Wales GAA (NSW GAA) has lost its last ditch bid to save its traditional home at Princes Park in Auburn.
A council meeting last night final resolved the situation. A motion had been put forward that the Council’s original decision to reallocate the park to a local soccer club be rescinded, but that [...]
The beleaguered Irish Government suffered its third resignation in a fortnight last night amid claims that the coalition is at breaking point from internal dirty tricks.
Green TD Trevor Sargent dramatically quit his junior ministerial post over his attempts to save a “concerned neighbour” from a criminal prosecution.
The opposition seized on the swift but dignified departure, [...]
