The ladies footballers of the Central Coast GAA club in Sydney will feature as part of the Hamish and Andy radio show tomorrow from 3pm.
The well-known television and radio personalities will visit the club as part of their efforts to play 24 sports in the space of 24 hours, and will take to the field [...]

A 24-year-old Wicklow man is in critical condition in a Brisbane hospital after falling four metres from the balcony of a city hotel at around 2am on Friday morning.
The unnamed man, believed to be from Arklow, fell from the balcony of the Beach House Bar and Grill at the Garden City shopping centre and hit [...]

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 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 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 [...]