Ireland awaits Trump moves on the corporate tax rate front

By Joe Leary
December 1, 2016
Joe Leary

Senior Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore, formerly with the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, somewhat gleefully announced on BBC radio the day after the election that Donald Trump’s new reduced tax rate would mean that many American companies now in Ireland would be leaving and returning to the USA. Moore based his statement on Trump’s claim during the campaign that he will reduce the American corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent in order to bring back jobs.

Nonsense!

Four get Silver Keys from Charitable Irish

By BIR News Room
December 1, 2016

Charitable Irish Society President Christopher A. Duggan and honorees Gerard Doherty, Sr. Maryadele Robinson and William Higgins. Steve Allen photoCharitable Irish Society President Christopher A. Duggan and honorees Gerard Doherty, Sr. Maryadele Robinson and William Higgins. Steve Allen photoThe Charitable Irish Society presented Silver Key Awards to Gerard and Marilyn Doherty of Charlestown, Billy Higgins of South Boston, and Sister Maryadele Robinson, director emerita of the Laboure Center in South Boston – at an evening reception on Nov.10 at Boston’s Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel.

“We had a wonderful and highly successful Silver Key,” said CIS president Christopher Duggan in a next day email to society members. “Our honorees spoke beautifully about their experiences serving those less fortunate in Boston and Ireland over decades of service.  A big ‘Thank You’ to all those who attended or contributed to this important event.  

“The Charitable Irish Society’s Silver Key Awards Reception is our primary annual fundraising event.  Funds raised are distributed to or on behalf of individual immigrants and provides financial support and services to those in need.”

GOP win stokes anxiety among Irish who have overstayed visas

By Peter F. Stevens
December 1, 2016
Peter F. Stevens

Perhaps unwittingly, Irish Americans who voted for Donald Trump have placed a large number of Irish immigrants in jeopardy of immediate deportation.

The president-elect Trump, during his post-election 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl, reaffirmed some of his hardline campaign rhetoric about moving firmly to deport millions of immigrants, a move that apparently would open the door for US Immigration Services to summarily deport immigrants who came to the US on short-stay permits but have overstayed them by months and years.

Mayor to Dedicate "Ray Flynn Marine Park" in Saturday AM ceremony

By Ed Forry
November 8, 2016
Ed Forry

On Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 11 a.m. Mayor Martin J. Walsh will gather with Ambassador Flynn and his family at the Marine Park in South Boston to name the facility in honor of the former Boston mayor and ambassador to the Holy See. The ceremony will take place at 660 Summer Street, in the South Boston Seaport District . Flynn served as mayor of Boston from 1984-1993 and as US Ambassador to the Holy See from 1993-1997.

The Boston Irish Honors 2016 Exemplary Boston Irish Family: The Leary Family

By Jack Thomas
November 3, 2016
Jack Thomas

Joe, Patsy, Betty, and Kevin Leary learned their lessons of faith and charity at home

Photo by Margaret Brett HastingsPhoto by Margaret Brett Hastings

The story of the Leary family of Boston is rooted in an event so shameful in Boston history that it’s not talked about much, but in the summer of 1834, Protestant thugs burned the Ursuline sisters’ school and convent in Charlestown and drove the nuns out of Boston.

Nearly a century later, in 1928, a young Dorchester woman, Mary Nolan, graduated from an Ursuline school, the College of New Rochelle in New York. In 1946, she collaborated with Boston Archbishop Richard J. Cushing and others to induce the Ursulines back to Boston to establish Ursuline Academy on Arlington Street. She helped raise funds, and sent her two daughters to the nuns’ school. Today, the academy prospers on a 28-acre campus in Dedham, offering independent Catholic education to 430 girls in Grades 7 through 12.

The Boston Irish Honors 2016 for Distinguished Public Service: Paul G. Kirk, Jr.

By Martin F. Nolan
November 3, 2016
Martin F. Nolan

Photo by Margaret Brett HastingsPhoto by Margaret Brett Hastings
His middle name is Grattan, after Henry Grattan, the Dublin orator who fought for Irish parliamentary freedom. Charles James Fox, the British leader, called him “the Irish Demosthenes.”

Paul G. Kirk Jr., a political leader and for 40 years confidant of the Kennedy clan, has seldom heard praise for his speechifying. As a captain in the US Army Reserve, he was known as a tough, fair officer. In his career as a political organizer and Senate aide, he was known for something unusual in Washington: silence.

“He’s an amazing listener,” according to Caroline Kennedy, US Ambassador to Japan. “It’s all about the work for him, not the credit.” That rare trait was cherished by her uncle, Edward M. Kennedy, who recruited the dark-haired young Bostonian after Kirk worked in Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign of 1968.

The Boston Irish Honors 2016 Exemplary Boston Irish Family: The Leary Family

By Jack Thomas
November 3, 2016
Jack Thomas


Joe, Patsy, Betty, and Kevin Leary learned their lessons of faith and charity at home

The story of the Leary family of Boston is rooted in an event so shameful in Boston history that it’s not talked about much, but in the summer of 1834, Protestant thugs burned the Ursuline sisters’ school and convent in Charlestown and drove the nuns out of Boston.

The Boston Irish Honors 2016 for Distinguished Public Service: Paul G. Kirk, Jr.

By Martin F. Nolan
November 3, 2016
Martin F. Nolan

For Paul G. Kirk Jr., Democrat, it’s ‘all about the work, not the credit’

His middle name is Grattan, after Henry Grattan, the Dublin orator who fought for Irish parliamentary freedom. Charles James Fox, the British leader, called him “the Irish Demosthenes.”

Paul G. Kirk Jr., a political leader and for 40 years confidant of the Kennedy clan, has seldom heard praise for his speechifying. As a captain in the US Army Reserve, he was known as a tough, fair officer. In his career as a political organizer and Senate aide, he was known for something unusual in Washington: silence.

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