MALONES Glasgow—the Irish bar on Sauchiehall Lane in the city centre—has become one of the first venues in the heart of Glasgow to pour Beamish Irish Stout and drinkers emptied the taps within 36 hours!

HIBERNIAN Football Club’s sesquicentennial year drew to a close with a pre-season tour of Ireland and the unveiling of two plaques in co-founder Canon Edward Joseph Hannan’s birthplace village of Ballingarry, County Limerick (see features section).

A MAJOR exhibition exploring five decades of movement between people from the island of Ireland and Britain—and their enduring connection to both places—is coming to Belfast for the first time this summer.

A NEW football club with Irish roots is beginning its journey in Glasgow, bringing together community, culture and sport under one identity.

AN ATTENTIVE audience of family, friends and invited guests—including Theresa C Gallagher, chair of Comhaltas in Britain and Rosemarie Cassidy, chair of the Scottish Region of Comhaltas—enjoyed the St James the Great Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Branch’s annual summer concert in Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, Glasgow recently.

IT'S NOT every day we hear that a Glasgow Irishman has received the highest honour within the world of science, but that recently came true.

AFTER two years away, Glasgow Irish AFC are back! The amateur football club had eight great years of ups and downs, with silverware and cup finals won and lost, but at the start of the 2024/25 season the club took the devastating decision to fold with player recruitment being a big issue. With an aging team and no fresh players coming in it proved to be too difficult to continue.

PRESIDENT Catherine Connolly made her first visit to Britain as she met with Irish community groups from across the country and was welcomed by King Charles in London.

IN A season like no other, the club whose corporate logo is ‘A club like no other,’ again broke new football ground by holding the first ever football history conference specifically dedicated to discussing one club—Celtic FC.

A GLASGOW native now living in Donegal helped coach the Republic of Ireland Veterans Football team to glory at the recent FIFA Super Vets World Championships in Copenhagen.

THE Irish navvies who blasted, picked, shovelled and drilled their way through the hard rock of the Scottish Highlands to bring the railway from Fort William to Mallaig in 1907, are being recalled in a series of events to mark the anniversary of the opening of the railway this summer.

JAMES Connolly's life and legacy was celebrated in both Edinburgh and Glasgow recently via a special commemorative event and a brand new play.

GLASGOW'S Irish community joined the parishioners of St Mary of the Assumption in the Calton to commemorate National Famine Memorial Day on Sunday May 17.

LATE last month, the first event for a charity set up in the name of the much-loved traditional musician, Eamonn Nugent, was celebrated, raising in the region of £5000.

NEARLY three decades after a young Kilkenny student decided to start a Gaelic Football Club in Glasgow, generations of players, alumni, family and friends gathered to celebrate the remarkable legacy that decision created.

MALONES in Edinburgh has announced a major £500,000 investment in the venue, building on a strong period of growth for the business and marking the next stage in its expansion near Haymarket.

HOLY Cross Church in Crosshill was packed to the rafters for Charlie Devlin’s Requiem Mass, a sign of just how highly valued and deeply admired he was in a remarkable life.

THE scenes of targeted violence in Glasgow in the aftermath of an attempted murder in Belfast shocked people across Scotland, and have prompted comment from a variety of Irish community organisations.

STUDENTS of modern Irish history are welcoming a new e-book series examining the history of Irish Republicanism, from the Border Campaign of the 1950s right up to the Belfast Agreement in 1998, using the personal accounts of those who were involved.

THE Minister of State for International Development and Diaspora, Neale Richmond TD, recently published the Irish Government’s new Diaspora Strategy.