New York

Wild Geese: Clare native Elaine Brennan moved to the US in 1994 on a Morrison visa and built a successful career in life sciences

Caustic New Yorker had little time for spiritualists, abolitionists, organ grinders, mosquitoes and snobs, either

Padraic Colum’s death made front-page news in the New York Times in 1972, while F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway feared his wife Mary’s rapier wit

The bestselling Canadian writer returns with a near-future vision of the world – well, two of them

In the News podcast: Even as 9/11 fades from living memory, we are still living in a 9/11 world

A post on Facebook informed me the 9/11 families were petitioning to prevent my mayor, Zohran Mamdani, from attending the 25th anniversary commemorative event. I hate this time of year

Franciscan friar recognised as first fatality of terrorist attacks 25 years ago on New York’s Twin Towers

From Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay to mass surveillance and populist politics, the response to the attacks transformed far more than US foreign policy

New York firefighters still honour fallen colleagues who stayed on duty once the call came to the World Trade Center

After turning on CNN, we watched in horror as the second plane hit the South Tower

Mayor says survivors and families were failed as newly released documents shed fresh light on the toxic legacy of the attacks

Wild Geese: Jer McCarthy, a Cork man in the Big Apple, recalls building his business amid ‘days when I don’t remember eating or sleeping’

Josh Holton delivers an impressive autofictional debut; Alex Hyde creates a portrait of two very different artists

New York braces itself to again remember the diabolical awfulness of the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001

This weekend it is Katie Taylor’s turn but 100 years ago a New York-based Irish heavyweight was the big draw at GAA headquarters

Immigration arrests reached a record high of 49,000 in July, nearing Trump’s goal of 2,000 daily arrests

Bill of €7,000 for 18-night stay at swish New York hotel during UN General Assembly

The artist became one of the world’s best-known contemporary figures after decades living in a psychiatric hospital

This insightful exploration of how masculinity is being shaped by current trends will linger long after you’ve closed the final chapter

Is a desire for authenticity behind our growing love of food-themed clothes and bags? Or do we just want to be ‘different’?

Mangione is scheduled to go on trial on September 8th on state murder charges

High debt, management turmoil and Trump tariffs hinder Anchorage Capital’s turnaround plan

The provocative satire Our Hero, Balthazar is the debut feature of a filmmaker who has ‘a fear of boring the audience’

The 33-year-old fashion designer, originally from Co Carlow, was found dead on a yacht in New York in August 2025

Wild Geese: Alexander Buckeridge, New York

As the financial hub regains confidence, police action against small booksellers highlights continuing limits on dissent

Final novel in two-time Pulitzer winner’s Harlem Trilogy traces evolution of its ageing crook characters and of New York itself

Dad whispered I should leave, so he could sleep: ‘I want to dream about my children’

Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford are fine, but none is a global city. Why, then, all the anti-Dublin bias?

Amie Wiley has learned Irish people are not very good at ‘talking about ourselves or our achievements’

Rite & Reason: A new mural at the cathedral was commissioned by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, retired archbishop of New York, and is by the American artist Adam Cvijanovic

Gardaí say main suspect in Killarney murder inquiry has fled Ireland as they liaise with foreign police forces

More than 20 years after it was announced, though, the project remains unfinished, a symbol of broken promises and the pitfalls of taxpayer-subsidised megaprojects

US president tells supporters communism is ‘the enemy of July 4th, 1776′ during Mount Rushmore address

Actor Adam Sandler officiated the ceremony and the couple chose their siblings to stand in as man of honour and best man

America 2026 with Kevin Kilbane and Paul Howard

Apparently a gathering for 100 is expected at Madison Square Garden tonight, and another for 1,000 people tomorrow afternoon

Tipperary native Thomas O’Brien emigrated to the US before joining the army and was identified through modern DNA analysis

Doing nothing if you get promoted over a colleague increases the likelihood of them leaving and you losing a valued team member

An insane and arbitrary sequence of events led to me getting to write about things for a living, instead of toiling away in an office job I hate