Cahir O'Doherty

New York

Arts and Travel Editor at IrishCentral

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Sweet Summer, let these Irish desserts take you to heaven!

2 weeks ago | irishcentral.com | Cahir O'Doherty

It's summer and that means a little more time on your hands to try out those Irish recipes that you've been filing away all winter. Let's start with dessert, like the lunatics we are. Ireland has some truly outstanding dessert offerings and many of these desserts you just can't get anywhere else once you're wheels up over Dublin. Take the singular and deceptively simple dish Banoffee, for example.
Irish actresses Genevieve O'Reilly and Denise Gough light up "Andor"

3 weeks ago | irishcentral.com | Cahir O'Doherty

Two gifted Irish women are currently playing on opposite sides of empire and rebellion in the tense and tightly written concluding season of "Andor," the "Star Wars" galaxy saga now showing on Disney+. Genevieve O'Reilly, 47, plays Senator Mon Mothma, an outwardly placid colonial leader who is secretly planning a rebellion against the evil galactic empire. Her opposite in the fight is Dedra Meero, a lieutenant in the Imperial Security Bureau, played by Denise Gough,45.
Award-winning documentary on The Troubles and Brexit seeks a streaming home

1 month ago | irishcentral.com | Cahir O'Doherty

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Ireland's rising profile in Japan through our culture, exports

1 month ago | irishcentral.com | Cahir O'Doherty

Ireland's economic investment in Japan is growing at an unprecedented rate, which explains why this year, Ireland is taking center stage at the Osaka Expo 2025 with a stunning new Irish pavilion that will introduce many of the estimated 113,000 visitors a day to our nation and culture.
What's Irish about Italy? More than you think!

Jan 17, 2025 | irishcentral.com | Cahir O'Doherty

Last summer, outside the famed Boboli Gardens in Florence, an elderly attendant examined my entrance ticket, read my name, and immediately launched into a insightful meditation on the Nine Years War. I was astonished, but I probably shouldn't have been. It turned out he was a historian with a lifelong interest in Irish history and English colonialism. “You have a famous name,” he told me.
What's behind Ireland's legendary love of ABBA?

Jan 16, 2025 | irishcentral.com | Cahir O'Doherty

Ireland's love of ABBA is legendary and ever growing, so what's behind this enduring intergenerational affection for the Swedish supergroup? Back in the 2010s, a friend of mine from Spain asked me why the hell ABBA are still being played in Ireland. “They're on the radio every day like it's the late 1970s,” he groused.
What's behind Ireland's legendary love of ABBA?

Jan 16, 2025 | flipboard.com | Cahir O'Doherty

2 hours agoSweden begins construction of massive underground nuclear vault that will last 100,000 yearsSweden has broken ground on its ambitious $11 billion nuclear waste repository, where highly radioactive material will rest in an underground maze of …12 hours agoRumour: Zeidane Inoussa Named as Celtic TargetCeltic are reportedly interested in signing Swedish under-21 international Zeidane Inoussa. The talented left winger, currently plying his trade with …
Signature Irish dishes to complement your Thanksgiving dinner table

Nov 21, 2024 | irishcentral.com | Cahir O'Doherty

If the Irish had created Thanksgiving it would have been called Giving Out Day. We’re much better at complaining than giving thanks usually, but if there’s one thing we know how to do well it’s cook for a cold climate. Thanksgiving isn’t an Irish holiday. When you first arrive here as a wide-eyed immigrant you quickly come to see it as the most Yankee event on the calendar, even more so than Memorial Day or the fireworks and flag-waving of the Fourth of July.
"Say Nothing" - The unmissable new drama about The Troubles, now streaming

Nov 14, 2024 | irishcentral.com | Cahir O'Doherty

Unless you were there, you'll never know the terror – and the unexpected exhilaration – of the emerging Troubles in Belfast in the early 1970s - the attacks, the resistance, and the hard choices circumstances forced you to make between pacifism and warfare. Few dramas tell that story with the energy and precision of “Say Nothing,” the accomplished new drama series by "Derry Girls" director Michael Lennox which premieres on Hulu on Thursday, November 14.
Chicken Noodle Soup recipe from Irish chef Clodagh McKenna

Nov 12, 2024 | irishcentral.com | Cahir O'Doherty

Nov 12 is Chicken Soup for the Soul Day 2024! So how about a bowl of Clodagh McKenna's chicken noodle soup to fortify you and banish the winter blues? Celebrity Irish chef Clodagh McKenna calls this warming Chicken Noodle Soup recipe a bowl of hugs and you can see why; it's solace in a bowl. Note: You can swap the bok choi in this recipe with lots of other greens, such as kale, spinach, chard or even frozen peas - they will all work as well.