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From Kilmacud Crokes to Cremartin, Kevin Nolan has a unique view on Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final.

For so long, Ciarán Whelan was the leader of the band. The heartbeat of the Dublin team. A county turns its lonely eyes to you.

A conservative majority on the Supreme Court blasted through decades of precedent Thursday to put an end to affirmative action in university admissions and is expected today to conclude the term by blocking President Biden’s program to forgive student loan debts. Since last year, right-leaning justices have issued constitutional reinterpretations that are reshaping cultural, privacy…

The Irish poet guides us through the sights, sounds and beauty of his home around Inishkeen in the stony grey soil of Monaghan.

When I was a boy every ship entering the Port of Cork from the broad Atlantic was greeted by a vast placard in black and white fixed to the quay walls. It said dead SLOW. And the humorous philosophers of Cork agreed that it was dead right!

Editor's note: In May 2022 our sister publication, Ireland of the Welcomes, celebrated its 70th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we dipped into our decades of archives and found incredible articles like this and others written by famous Irish figures such as Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh, and Paul Henry.

Ireland has changed economically, socially, and culturally since the first issue of Ireland of the Welcomes was published 70 years ago. However much of what enthralled visitors back then remains true of the country today and is reassuringly familiar, writes Mark Henry.

Sabine Parish, La - Sheriff Aaron Mitchell announces three Sabine Parish drug dealers were sentenced in United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana in Shreveport this month.

The great Irish poet and author, Brendan Behan, in 1952, explored the Kingdom of County Kerry's lilting accent, its people and the sights along the Wild Atlantic Way.

A letter from America penned to Ireland of the Welcomes in 1959 shows that happy holidaymakers, the Boyles, from California, have been a long-standing wonderful presence in the Emerald Isle throughout the decades.