Martin’s Park, due to open next fall, called place of ‘light, hope, positivity’

By Jonathan Innocent, Reporter Correspondent
August 30, 2017
Jonathan Innocent, Reporter Correspondent

The family of eight-year-old Martin Richard, the youngest Boston Marathon bombing victim, offered heartfelt remarks alongside Mayor Martin Walsh and Gov. Charlie Baker at a groundbreaking ceremony for Martin’s Park on the South Boston waterfront last Wednesday afternoon (Aug. 17). The park is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2018.

Jane Richard, who lost her left leg in the explosion that claimed her brother’s life, said, “This park is going to include everything that I wished for.”

From two Neponset boys, a vote for ROTC and the value of a military life

By Rowan Walrath, Reporter Correspondent
August 30, 2017
Rowan Walrath, Reporter Correspondent

Michael and Patrick Murray are cut from the same cloth: The brothers live in Neponset, they play hockey, they are Harvard men, and they both joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) on the campus in Cambridge.

With full-tuition ROTC scholarships for Ivy League educations, and an upcoming four-year-minimum service commitment, both young men, the latest in a long line of military Murrays, are eager to carry on the family tradition.

From two Neponset boys, a vote for ROTC and the value of a military life

By Rowan Walrath, Reporter Correspondent
August 30, 2017
Rowan Walrath, Reporter Correspondent

Michael and Patrick Murray are cut from the same cloth: The brothers live in Neponset, they play hockey, they are Harvard men, and they both joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) on the campus in Cambridge.

With full-tuition ROTC scholarships for Ivy League educations, and an upcoming four-year-minimum service commitment, both young men, the latest in a long line of military Murrays, are eager to carry on the family tradition.

A Makem and a Clancy honor music past while they frame music present

By Sean Smith
August 30, 2017
Sean Smith

Yes, they’re called “Makem and Clancy,” but they’re not that Makem and Clancy. Not exactly, anyway. Rory Makem and Donal Clancy – the sons of, respectively, Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy – are justifiably proud of their families’ storied place in Irish music, and both had the opportunity to perform with their famous fathers over the years. They’ve also forged their own musical paths:

Grace Cotter Regan to lead BC High

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August 30, 2017

Grace Cotter Regan will be the next president of Boston College High School, the school’s board of trustees announced on Aug. 24. The new head of the 154-year-old Jesuit institution has most recently served as head of school at St. Mary’s in Lynn and was previously the executive director of advancement for the New England Province of Jesuits and the Boston College Alumni Association.
She succeeds longtime President William Kemeza, who retired after a 30- year-career at the school earlier this year.

Democacy dies behind closed doors – and closed investigations

By Peter F Stevens, special to the BIR
August 1, 2017
Peter F Stevens, special to the BIR

We are poised on the edge of a Constitutional crisis and a medical catastrophe for anywhere between 20 million and 50 million Americans. As President Trump – with the aid of numerous Irish-American lemmings such as GOP leaders Paul Ryan, Mick Mulvaney and Scots-Irish-American Mitch McConnell – tries to incinerate the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and shut down the “Russian hoax” by finding a way to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, one member of the Republican Senate has planted herself squarely in the president’s way.

Boston and New England send their ‘Rose’ to Tralee

By BIR Newsroom
August 1, 2017
BIR Newsroom

Orlaith Roche, a 26-year-old model from Sudbury, at left, will represent Boston and New England this month as the Boston Rose when some 65 young women from around the world gather in County Kerry for the annual Rose of Tralee competition.

The highlight of the international festival, at 58 years old one of Ireland’s largest and longest running events, is the selection of the Rose of Tralee but over its seven days of celebrating Irish culture (Aug. 16-22) there are street entertainments, a carnival, live concerts, theatre, circus, markets, funfair, fireworks and Rose Parades.

Lindsay Straw looks to yesteryear for songs about women who know how to take charge

By BIR Staff
August 1, 2017
BIR Staff

The women in the songs on Lindsay Straw’s latest album don’t possess super powers or wear skintight, flashy costumes, nor do they have secret identities or high-tech headquarters. But they’re heroic nonetheless, relying on pluck, wit, cleverness, strength of will, and other such qualities to escape danger, turn the tables on aggressive would-be lovers, fashion successful and fulfilling lives, and even ride to the rescue of a gentleman-in-distress.

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