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Three leading Bostonians of Irish ancestry were honored this week at an October 28 luncheon before an audience of 350 guests at the Seaport Hotel in Boston’s waterfront seaport district. Legendary Boston College hockey coach Jerry York, developer and philanthropist John Cronin, and Irish Pastoral Center executive director Mary Swanton were recognized for their achievements in ....
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By Ed Forry, Boston Irish publisherSimon Coveney, TD, Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defense was among the first guests at the John F. Kennedy Library & Museum when public gatherings were resumed on April 29, participating in a one-hour discussion with Dr. Bob Mauro, director of the Boston College Irish Institute and founding director of BC’s Global Leadership ....
Last week, the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s board of directors approved a plan to build a new $50 million fieldhouse in Dorchester’s Columbia Point neighborhood. The vote was unanimous, and for good reason: This project, once completed, will be a game-changer for the kids in our city who deserve the sort of state-of-the-art, indoor facility that will be built along ....
By Ed Forry Our Galway correspondent, Larry Donnelly, contacted me this month to introduce Sharon Fitzpatrick, the development director for COPE Galway, a social services agency in that city. “She is eager to establish relationships with Irish Americans in Boston and New York,” Donnelly told me, “Specifically those with ties to Galway and the west of Ireland – and to raise ....