Deirdre Maitre has travelled to Haiti many times to produce films on the nonprofit organizations that are helping to get one of the world's poorest nations on its feet. She'll be joining others from the Haitian community on Friday night at the Irish Center to talk about the best ways to help.

Stalled talks continue into the night in Northern Ireland, the cops hold a bank robbery suspect for questioning, and Dublin drivers do a slow burn.

The premier Irish-American band is back with a new CD and fresh new sounds.

The price tag is coming down, says Parade Director Michael Bradley. He and other ethnic parade organizers met this week with city council and representatives of Mayor Nutter's office. Fundraisers are still planned.

Blackthorn at Ryan, a ceili in Swedesburg, DeDanaan's Maura O'Connell in Sellersville, and some of your favorite Irish beauty queens, GAA coaches, and journalists manning the phones for a WHYY fund drive--that's the way this week is shaping up.

A local insurance agent is collecting baseball equipment to put in the hands of kids who can't afford it. Read on to find out how you can help.

Kilkenny-born singer-songwriter Enda Keegan is making Philly his home these days. Find out how a teenaged high school dropout who picked cabbages for a living and played in bars at night found himself with an American college education and a thriving music career.

Lots of musical talent in town this week, from Enter the Haggis to the Malones at the January Rambling House event. Read on.

A local documentary maker, the granddaughter of Irish immigrants, will screen some of the works she's done in Haiti at the Irish Center on Friday, January 29. Representatives from Haitian aid organization and the Haitian community will be on hand to answer your questions.

The continuing Iris Robinson political soap opera, police and justice powers in Northern Ireland possibly coming to a head, and the Labour Party takes a gamble on a new tax.