THE Columba Club in Coatbridge gave a warm welcome to Jim McVeigh for the launch of his recent publication Our Martin.

FOR more than two decades, the Celtic Cup has been a unique tradition rooted in true friendship across two Celtic countries.

ON THE afternoon of March 11 1597, Dublin experienced one of the most devastating accidents in the history of the city. A huge quantity of gunpowder—being stored beside the River Liffey—suddenly explo...

THIS has been an active and varied summer for the Consulate, spanning cultural collaborations, political engagement and support for a pioneering internship programme between Ireland and Scotland in th...

THE Irish Champions Festival was held across two courses—Leopardstown and The Curragh—over the weekend of September 12 and 13, and Saturday’s big race at Leopardstown, the Group One Champion Stakes, w...

IF IRELAND has an efficient—and hopefully— expanding modern railway system, it equally benefits from being home to a surprising number of high quality heritage railways and museums. Irish heritage rai...

BHUEL, a chairde, tá súil agam go raibh samhradh maith agaibh. Ceann measartha maith ó thaobh na haimsire de a bhí againn, nach raibh? ‘An rud is annamh is iontach’ mar a deirtear!

THERE’S 05:38 on the stop-clock: Mayo are three points down in the 2026 All-Ireland Final, nevertheless very much in the game. Unlike in the 1996 replay against Meath, they still have 15 men on the fi...

THE GAA, Camogie Association, Camanachd Association and Women’s Camanachd Association recently confirmed that this year’s Hurling-Shinty International will take place at Cork’s SuperValu Páirc Uí Chao...

THE remarkable story of the man whose charitable work led to the birth of Celtic Football Club is to be brought to the stage in a new Glasgow production.

Irish Voices · Episode

Join us for a free presentation in Clydebank Museum about Irish ancestry.

THE city of Rome is a real kaleidoscope of colour. It really does has everything—food, fashion, art, faith and, of course, history. For those who have visited the Eternal City, there is never enough t...

THE All-Ireland Fleadh took place last month in Belfast for a celebration of Irish culture that was on a completely different level to anything that had gone before.

DOUBLE Emmy Award-winning Irish group, The Shamrocks, are coming to Scotland next month as part of their first ever UK tour.

AT THE outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the regularity of the Derry boat sailings began to dwindle, as U-boat activity in the North Atlantic made a dangerous journey much more hazardous. Ships ...

SAD are the homes of Ballingarry Southwards towards the hill The shadow of Knockfeirna A mission to fulfil He crossed the sea to help the poor And found Hibernian Undying fame surrounds your name Ed H...

AS PUBLICISED in our last edition, the end of Hibernian’s 150th year was celebrated in August by a couple of significant events.First, there was the unveiling of a plaque on the main pillar of the gat...

IT WAS a dream come true for five-time World Champion Irish dancer, Oscar Donnelly, as he took to the stage to perform in Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance show in Glasgow, late last month.

YOU may not be familiar with the name Kathleen Helen MacCarthy-Morrogh—otherwise known as Kay Summersby—but after reading this or going to see the movie Pressure, which is out this month, everyone wil...

IT'S BEEN a tough start to the season for Dundee United, where their first three fixtures saw them line up against the top three sides from last year.

FOLLOWING on from last season’s highs and the dramatic against-all-odds league winning run Martin O’Neill led Celtic on, a summer of canny transfer business was required, which would augment the threa...

HIBERNIAN'S season thus far has already been of a very ‘Hibs’ nature—inconsistent.

EXCLUSIVE IRELAND'S President Catherine Connolly travels to Scotland today for a four-day visit during which time she will explore the links between Scotland and Ireland, spend time meeting the Irish...

IRISH community and cultural organisations have spoken out strongly against organised attacks against immigrant communities in Scotland, and against fascist-style assemblies which have taken place in ...

THIS is a good first novel by a new author joining the scene of Scottish crime writing. The main character is Cal Lynch and the book opens with his arrival in Paisley. It emerges that almost three dec...

STANDING proudly on the north side of St Stephen’s Green, the Shelbourne Hotel is one of Dublin’s most famous landmarks. For more than two centuries, its elegant rooms and corridors have witnessed pol...

"I AM of Ireland… come dance with me in Ireland,” declared Erin’s greatest poet, WB Yeats. It is hard to overestimate the significance of Yeats to the development of modern Ireland. The Sligo poet was...

FOLLOWING on from Causeway joining forces with the British and Irish Trading Alliance (BITA) last year, the business networking organisation is marking its first anniversary with an important step for...

FROM the mills of the 19th century to the playing fields of today’s Gaelic games, Dundee’s Irish story is one of resilience, cultural exchange, and enduring community spirit. Far from being a relic of...

THIS month I thought I’d take a look at the beautiful explosion of Irish Rock ‘n’ Roll that’s happening right now and shine a light on some of the greats from the past that helped influence and bring ...

MALONES Glasgow—the Irish bar on Sauchiehall Lane in the city centre—has become one of the first venues in the heart of Glasgow to pour Beamish Irish Stout and drinkers emptied the taps within 36 hour...

A GREAT day’s play of handball was had recently at Broughton High School in Edinburgh, with some brilliant skills on display too.The fifth code of the GAA is fast-paced, fun and strategic and the even...

SOME older readers will recall The Irish Weekly—sister paper of The Irish News—being sold in churches throughout Scotland. It was a Nationalist and Catholic publication, which, in 1892 incorporated Th...

HIBERNIAN Football Club’s sesquicentennial year drew to a close with a pre-season tour of Ireland and the unveiling of two plaques in co-founder Canon Edward Joseph Hannan’s birthplace village of Ball...

A MAJOR exhibition exploring five decades of movement between people from the island of Ireland and Britain—and their enduring connection to both places—is coming to Belfast for the first time this su...

IN 2017, the Irish language television channel, TG4, broadcast a programme, Bus Ghlaschú, about the bus services between Donegal and Glasgow that acted as a vital link between the two places. It was s...

A NEW football club with Irish roots is beginning its journey in Glasgow, bringing together community, culture and sport under one identity.

BELFAST. June 2026. Burnt out homes. Terrified families fleeing in the night. We’ve been here before. A knife attack by Hadi Alodid, a Sudanese asylum seeker in Nationalist North Belfast, triggered ...

BHUEL, a chairde, an mbeadh iontas ar bith oraibh dá mbeinn ag rá libh go bhfuil meancóg amaideach déanta ag Reform UK? Ní bheadh, is dócha, ach seans go mbeadh iontas ort go mbaineann a gcuid seafóid...

IRELAND'S first railway was opened between Dublin and Kingstown—now Dún Laoghaire—in 1834, just nine years after the pioneering Stockton and Darlington opened for traffic. The Irish line made history ...

THE day after an uninspiring loss to Shamrock Rovers, my brother and I made our way by car to the cradle of the Hibernian Football Club—Ballingarry in County Limerick—to attend a service to commemorat...

IT'S BEEN 12 years since Glasgow hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 23rd iteration of the event—the 2026 Glasgow games—has now kicked off again in the city, far sooner than anyone would have p...

AN ATTENTIVE audience of family, friends and invited guests—including Theresa C Gallagher, chair of Comhaltas in Britain and Rosemarie Cassidy, chair of the Scottish Region of Comhaltas—enjoyed the St...

THERE are league victories, and then there are championship-winning performances. Tír Conaill Harps produced the latter recemtly as they successfully defended their league crown, overcoming Dunedin Co...