Máirtín Ó Muilleoir is the publisher of the Belfast Media Group titles and of the Irish Echo in America.
He has been involved in journalism for over four decades and has penned columns for both that the Andersonstown News and the former daily Irish language newspaper Lá.
He is the author of several books in Irish and English including ‘Ceap Cuddles’ and ‘Belfast’s Dome of Delight’.
He has served in politics for Sinn Féin both in Belfast City Council and in the power-sharing Executive at Stormont.
As co-founder of events company Aisling Events, he has hosted a range of transatlantic conferences including the Big Irish Campfire, the New York-New Belfast Conference and the Belfast International Homecoming.
He is the proud recipient of a Honorary Doctorate from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, USA.
Ireland is carving out a niche for itself as the European landing zone for Silicon Valley's AI innovators. the Irish Consul General in San Francisco has told a transatlantic tech conference at Stanford University. Belfast-based tech companies Unosquare and Options IT as well as Queen's University Belfast were all represented at the California event.
On Wednesday past, I had the great good fortune to meet in Dublin the Boston architect Michael Murphy who designed the six-acre Lynching Memorial site in Montgomery, Alabama - a place that once heralded itself as the premier slave trading site in the Heart of Dixie.
Boston architect Michael Murphy flew into Dublin this morning to address a landmark conference in the GPO on the creation of a cultural quarter focused on Moore Street - a street running behind the post office which was the site of the Rising leaders' retreat and their surrender.
For veteran reporter Bojan Brezigar reporting from Belfast on vying constitutional claims over the North of Ireland is a bit of a busman's holiday.
People (who have a lot of time on their hands) have been asking me what was my most vital contribution to the Irish Roundtable in the Valley tech conference at Stanford University Faculty Club on 9 May.
Founders of a Belfast start-up have criss-crossed the US promoting their AI-powered ethical journalism software in universities and newsrooms.
Tá an fhéie litríóchta Gaeilge IMRAM ag teacht chuig An Chultúrlann ar Bhóthar na bhFál Dé hAoine 3 Bealtaine le 'Siúracha na Gealaí Caillte - The Diane Di Prima Project'
Community stalwart Seán Mackel (91), who led the rebuilding of the Bombay Street homes torched in the 1969 pogroms, was laid to rest today in Downpatrick.
My DUP buddy Sammy Douglas enjoys getting up in front of American audiences visiting Belfast and telling them, in somber tones, that he is here to talk about a country riven by division, polarised by hate and walking a thin line between democracy and authoritarian rule.
J1 Visa holders seeking work in New York were told they should ‘sell themselves’ positively to prospective employers at an event in the Big Apple on Thursday past.
Relatives for Justice has paid tribute to Ancient Order of Hibernians President in the US, Danny O'Connell, branding him "a trailblazer and staunch ally" for Northern nationalists during his four-year tenure.
The outgoing head finance director of Irish language station Raidió Fáilte was on the right wavelength last week as she picked up the inaugural St Bridget's Day award.
Ag guí Nollaig mhór, mhaith ar ár léitheoirí agus ar ár bhfógróiri. Cuidíonn do thacaíocht linn leas an phobail a dhéanamh tré iriseoireacht atá bunaithe sa phobal.Is féidir leat na preasanna digiteacha agus clóite a choinneáil ag tiontú tré síntiús a ghlacadh dár e-pháipéar anseo.
The late, great people's poet and rebellious bard Brian Moore had a famously sardonic ballad in praise of the 'Good Old Black and Tan', which was a tongue-in-cheek dig at the revisionists.
This summer, we had the uplifting visit to West Belfast of Willard Carlson (below, right, with Gerry Adams and film-maker Kevin McKiernan), an elder of the Yurok Tribe of Northern California who had fought at the Wounded Knee siege in 1973.