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Kathleen Duffy
Co. Cavan woman Kathleen Duffy is logging out this week, as she retires after 24 years working with Irish Farm Computers on Herdmaster, AgriNet Grass and more recently HerdAPP, on software support.
Mother of outgoing Macra na Feirme president Thomas Duffy, she has assisted in the running of the renowned Virginia Show for the past 25 years, and was involved in the setting up and running of the €1 million show centre which opened in 2014.
She lives outside Virginia, and farms with her husband Ned, as well as Thomas.
Kathleen, who has a B.Sc. Honours degree in rural development and a postgraduate higher diploma in adult and community education, remembers the beginning of farm software, back in the late 1990s.
Celebrating St. Patrick s Day in the Poconos
Normally, St. Patrick s Day is a busy time for bars, but the pandemic has stopped a lot of people from painting their downtowns green. Author: Carmella Mataloni Updated: 3:43 PM EDT March 17, 2021
MONROE COUNTY, Pa. Eat, Drink and be Irish is the motto on this St. Patrick s Day inside The Original Pocono Pub and Grill near Stroudsburg.
Though there s no live music and not as many people as in years past, the pandemic couldn t stop the Connolly s from Albrightsville from getting a pint. We started early today. We are New Yorkers, so we are used to that. We went and got our first COVID shot, and this is a great place to come. We love it here, said Teresa Connolly, Albrightsville.
On St. Patrick’s Day, everyone is Irish.
In today’s Washington, with an Irish Catholic President, Joe Biden, and the second-in-succession Italian Catholic, Nancy Pelosi, you could add, “and Catholic.”
Moreover, nine Biden Cabinet members were raised in the faith and six of nine Supreme Court Justices. Catholics compose 31% of Congress and 32% of state governors.
Catholics defy categorizations. While Evangelicals are predominately conservative republicans and Jewish officials liberal democrats, Catholics have been 50-50 republican-democrat over three decades.
Today’s Catholicism is a big-tent religion often resembling a three-ring circus. For instance, Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) partners with anti-Semite Nick Fuentes, in right-wing traditionalist Catholic in opposition to all abortions. Simultaneously, pro-Socialism Alexandria Ocasio Cortes (D-NY) promotes the Green New Deal with Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) by citing Pope Francis’ encyclical on the env