Posted By: July 20, 2019
London Irish loneliness: “In a pub, no one would talk to you”The funeral of John Lynch from Kerry this week has highlighted the problem of isolationDaniel Keane in Cricklewood. Irish Times. Dublin. Saturday, July 20, 2019 The London Irish Centre in Camden, established in 1954, helps to tackle isolation. Photograph: Daniel KeaneIn 1957, aged 23, Thomas Mulligan left his home in Lucan, […]
Posted By: July 20, 2019
Patrick Murphy. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, July 20, 2019 As we plod our selective pathways through a decade of centenaries, we are about to witness a newly-emerging list of half centenaries, which will trace the origins of the thirty bloodiest years in this country’s history.The first death in the 1969 Troubles, that of Francis McCloskey in Dungiven, was marked […]
Posted By: July 19, 2019
Michelle Devane. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, July 18, 2019THE Irish government is set to oppose the EU’s proposed change to daylight saving time to ensure the island of Ireland does not end up with two time zones post-Brexit.The Republic’s justice minister Charlie Flanagan is expected to seek cabinet approval today to oppose the EU’s plans to abolish seasonal clock changes.The European Commission […]
Posted By: July 18, 2019
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “ Noted historian Eamon Phoenix gives a very useful background to the beginning of The Troubles fifty years ago. Important reading for Members of Congress concerned about justice and peace in Northern Ireland/The North.” —Fr. Sean Mc ManusDR. Eamon Phoenix. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, July […]
Posted By: July 18, 2019
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “ It appears that Perfidious Albion is still at it—reneging on its Irish promises and treaties, as it has done for many centuries. These two attached articles from todays Irish News of Belfast and the Irish Echo of New York, make this pretty clear. […]
