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 [...]
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 [...]
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 story of the Irish in Australia is to be told at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra next year.
The exhibition, which will open on St Patrick’s Day, 2011, will showcase the fascinating and tumultuous tale of Irish Australia over 225 years.
Speaking to the Irish Echo, Antrim-born Dr Richard Reid, senior curator at the [...]
It’s been a wonderful few weeks for Irish language and culture in Victoria, with the Lake School of Music in Koroit enjoying a record attendance, and the St Brigid’s Church and Hall in Crossley hosting its first event since coming back into community hands late last year.
But Irish cultural enthusiasts in the state had extra [...]
His grandfather fought for Australia at Gallipoli during WWI, and his great- grandfather served as a member of parliament for Bourke in NSW, but it was only last month that Dubliner Brian Finnegan finally received his own Australian citizenship.
The Finnegan family’s amazing Irish Australian story came full circle in Hobart on February 26 when Brian [...]
SYDNEY St Patrick’s Day Parade president Gerard Ryan has sounded an urgent plea to the Irish community for
funding amid fears the future of the event itself might be in jeopardy.
The St Patrick’s Day committee began last year with a $32,000 surplus, but despite record income last year from the Hyde Park Family Day, the [...]
St Mary’s Cathedral in Perth, which recently reopened after a $32.9m refurbishment, has a long and proud Irish history.
Originally opened in 1865, the cathedral had remained uncompleted since the 1930s when refurbishment was halted when money ran out during the Great Depression. St Mary’s closed for the restoration project in 2006 and reopened last month.
Five [...]
William Hackett’s fascinating life-story has been retold in a new book by Brenda Niall.
Born in Co Kilkenny, Fr William Hackett lived a life of intrigue and influence on both sides of the world.
A Jesuit priest and ardent Irish Republican, the last letter ever written by Michael Collins was addressed to him, and he counted Éamon [...]
“What the f**k is an Irish bloke doing on the Kokoda trail?”
That’s the question Dubliner and guide Aidan Grimes says he hears the most. The 45-year-old Finglas native lives on the Gold Coast with wife Kris and kids Sean, 13, and Kelly, 9, (both named after a certain Irish cyclist), but he spends most of [...]
