New York ban on horse-drawn carriages ends 160-year-old industry for Irish emigrants
Sligo carriage driver says operators are being unfairly blamed for wider public safety concerns after a tourist died in a carriage crash in June
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An American in Dublin: ‘People are like, okay, maybe she has notions, but she doesn’t know any better’
‘In some ways I get a free pass because I am an outsider,’ says musician Joanna Mattrey
John Fitzpatrick: ‘The two hotels are running perfectly. Someone might make me an offer ... but I’m not in any hurry’
Irishman’s two hotels in New York City, the Manhattan and Grand Central, have bounced back from Covid to post record revenues
A Belfast designer on making it big in New York: ‘There are still days when I have to pinch myself’
Ryan Crown has worked on projects as diverse as a luxury safari resort in Africa, Michelin-starred restaurants in New York and Geneva’s Ritz Carlton hotel
Dubliner in New York: ‘You have to be on your A-game all the time’
Cinematographer Daniel Byrne: ‘Being Irish abroad, I feel like I know how to draw strength from being who I am’
Restaurant review: Dylan McGrath’s latest offering delivers an expertly executed pizza party
Dylan McGrath’s latest dining proposition is simple, compelling and worthy of praise
My oldest friend is about to turn 40. He tells me he feels good about this
Dinner with him after a long absence requires no warm-up. It reminds me why making new friendships is worth the effort
Actor Selma Blair arrested in New York after alleged assault on flight
Blair’s lawyer says actor, who has multiple sclerosis, missed several doses of ‘powerful medication’
Mother appeals for help to find Irish man (30) missing in New York
Jordan McGrath arrived in New York in mid-August and has not been heard from since
Actor Tadhg McMahon: ‘Going to Ireland always feels like going home. My accent is gone’
McMahon appears in The Westies, a drama series about Irish gangsters in New York City in the early 1980s
Changing the world of organ transplants while fearing he could die waiting for one
Dr Robert Montgomery pioneered the use of pig organ transplants – after his time on waiting list led to heart surgery in clinical trial
Cornell rape allegation scandal brings an early bleakness to upstate New York
Case suggests college years are more challenging and, in some cases, troubling than ever
Salman Rushdie on watching himself being stabbed: ‘Triggering? That’s a little too military for my liking’
After Rushdie was stabbed in 2022, his wife began to film his recovery. Now the footage has become part of Knife, a striking documentary about the attack on the writer and its aftermath
New York governor attacks law enforcement’s handling of 2024 Cornell rape investigation
Letitia James’s office to oversee reopened investigation after Hochul names attorney general special prosecutor
UN delegates stride on Manhattan streets steeped in bloody mafia history
Steakhouses such as Sparks, outside which Paul Castellano was shot dead in 1985, are untouched by food fads or the 21st century
Letters from America: ‘I would not advise anyone to come here that can live comfortable at home’
From tenements to wagon trains, a book comprised of letters sent from the US between 1818 and 1972 illuminates the history of Irish emigration in an intensely personal way
Hecht off – Frank McNally on the testing testimony of a brilliant newspaper man
New York-born journalist and author set bar rather high for those who followed
Martin and Mamdani call bingo numbers and smile for the cameras in heart of Irish New York
Mayor bats away offer from marijuana dispensary as Taoiseach explains the Subway’s Cork connection
Micheál Martin rejects Binyamin Netanyahu’s criticism of New York mayor
Zohran Mamdani says it is for Irish people to decide on unity as he attends diaspora bingo game with Taoiseach
Netanyahu says he will use UN address to ‘tell the truth about’ New York mayor
Zohran Mamdani brushed off the remarks, saying the Israeli prime minister is ‘the architect of horrific genocide against Palestinians’
Picking Darren Clarke, a Harrington-Olazábal feud and pints of Guinness: Ian Woosnam on the 2006 Ryder Cup
‘It was an incredibly emotional time for everyone’: 20 years on from the 2006 Ryder Cup
Dubliner named chief executive of New York-listed boat manufacturer Brunswick
Áine Denari has served in senior roles across the auto industry in the US
Taoiseach to push for Palestine aid in talks with global leaders at UN General Assembly
Little to suggest US president’s view of the institution has changed since he delivered a scathing rebuke in 2025
Mamdani and Trump discuss immigration and affordability at Gracie Mansion
Pair’s previous meetings in Washington were surprisingly amicable
‘America has been great to me but I see the world through my Irish eyes’
Wild Geese: Clare native Elaine Brennan moved to the US in 1994 on a Morrison visa and built a successful career in life sciences
Strong words: America’s ‘greatest diarist’ whose many dislikes included the Irish
Caustic New Yorker had little time for spiritualists, abolitionists, organ grinders, mosquitoes and snobs, either
The five-decade love story of a forgotten Irish literary power couple
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
Exit Party author Emily St John Mandel: ‘I cannot overstate how stressful the US is at the moment’
The bestselling Canadian writer returns with a near-future vision of the world – well, two of them
9/11: Could its disastrous legacy have been avoided?
In the News podcast: Even as 9/11 fades from living memory, we are still living in a 9/11 world
My funny Irish-American mother would be appalled by the things done in her name since 9/11
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
9/11 anniversary: Fr Mychal Judge to be remembered in father’s home village in Leitrim
Franciscan friar recognised as first fatality of terrorist attacks 25 years ago on New York’s Twin Towers
How US response to 9/11 attacks reshaped the world
From Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay to mass surveillance and populist politics, the response to the attacks transformed far more than US foreign policy
The firefighters of 9/11: They were eating breakfast when the call came. ‘They all left’
New York firefighters still honour fallen colleagues who stayed on duty once the call came to the World Trade Center
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