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The Emerald Isle Immigration Center has announced the renovation and expansion of its community center located at 4275 Katonah Avenue in the Woodla...

News from Ireland including the MICA redress protests and $1 million funding for Irish orgnaizations in the U.S.

The Minister of State for Overseas Development Aid and Diaspora, Colm Brophy, T.D. is in New York today, 20 October, for a series of engagements at the United Nations Security Council, to meet Irish Community Organisations and to announce funding of more than $1 million from the Emigrant Support Programme to Irish Organisations in New York, the greater Tri-State Area and Pennsylvania.

The Consulate team was delighted to return to Kansas City Irish Festival this year, where we hosted a “Pop-Up Consulate”. Following last year’s ‘Fest where you are’, the Festival successfully moved entirely outdoors for Labor Day weekend, the first in-person festival in our region since 2019.

The Shannon Gaels GAA Club in New York is one step closer to building its field of dreams – a children’s playing field in Frank Golden Park in College Point, New York. In January, Minister for the Diaspora Jimmy Deenihan, TD announced that the Irish government will give €250,000 to develop the site. The GAA has also received €45,000 in funding under the Emigrant Support Programme for the Global Games Development Fund which supports GAA projects abroad. A total of 22 projects around the world from Montreal to Myanmar were supported during 2014 under the program. Deenihan said he was �...