IrishCentral.com, New Website, Broke Natasha Richardson News In First Week

IrishCentral.com, New Website, Broke Natasha Richardson News In First Week

The man behind the site, IrishCentral.com, is Niall O'Dowd, the New York-based Irish publisher who puts out the weekly Irish Voice, Irish America magazine and the newspaper Home and Away. The new site includes genealogy information, top tourist spots in Ireland, breaking news and breaking fluff. Its target audience is the Irish diaspora, which numbers 36.5 million in the United States, more than eight times the population of Ireland. ...

Officially opened by Prime Minister Brian Cowen of Ireland, who visited New York on Sunday, the site went fully operational on Tuesday, as emerald-clad revelers geared up for the annual St. Patrick's Day parade in Manhattan and ensuing tippling.

By midday Tuesday, it had been flooded with more than 500,000 unique visitors, after breaking the news that the actress Natasha Richardson, who is married to the Irish movie star Liam Neeson, was seriously injured while skiing near Montreal.

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