There’s been an outcry from Irish language speakers after the Bank of Ireland announced it was to remove the Gaelic option from its cash machines. Currently, cash machine users are given the option of ...

Inside a federal court room in the United States’ second city, Chicago, the Irish machine that dominated its politics for much of the last 150 years could fairly and officially be declared buried.

In a state where people of Irish descent became so politically dominant that candidates were once known to change their names to gain an advantage, Madigan was one of the last leading figures of the ...