Posted By: August 18, 2018
Ciaran MacAirt has brought the court challenge. Aodhan O Faolain. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, August 18, 2018 A relative of a woman killed in one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles has brought a court challenge in Dublin aimed at preventing the appointment of PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Drew Harris as the next Garda Commissioner.Ciaran MacAirt’s grandmother Kathleen Irvine was one […]
Posted By: February 09, 2018
More about the “The Girls of Fermanagh” and less about “The Boys of Wexford” young Kennedy is told Fermanagh-born Fr. Sean McManus with Fermanagh-descendant Congressman Joe Kennedy (D-MA). CAPITOL HILL— Fermanagh people in the United States are all agog at recent claims that the distaff-side of the famous Kennedy dynasty originated in a humble townland in County Fermanagh, near the County Cavan.JFK’s […]
Posted By: September 19, 2017
Caucus had campaigned for his releaseCAPITOL HILL. Tuesday, September 19, 2017—— Irish-Americans have welcomed the acquittal of a young Dublin Muslim who had spent four years in a Cairo jail.Ibrahim Halawa, an Irish teenager, was on a family holiday in Egypt when he became caught up in the chaos that engulfed […]
Posted By: September 12, 2017
For a life dedicated to justice CAPITOL HILL. Tuesday, September 12, 2017— The recipient of the 2017 World Peace Prize, “Roving Ambassador for Peace” has been announced.The Prize will go to Tefere Gebre, Executive […]
Posted By: July 25, 2017
Secretary of State James Brokenshire and Fr. Sean Mc Manus –July 24, 2017, at Northern Ireland Bureau BELFAST/WASHINGTON. Tuesday, July 25, 2017— It does not happen often —given the British Government-sponsored and structured sectarianism in Northern Ireland— that a Protestant praises a Catholic priest. Yet, that dynamic was on full display over the past 24 hours in both Washington and Belfast.In […]
