Wider Horizons Offers New Career Path for Irish Youth

By Katie Forberg
January 7, 2010
Katie Forberg

When Maureen Gates received a phone call asking if she would like an intern from Ireland, she didn't waste a moment to jump at the opportunity. Gates works on the EagleEyes project at the Boston College Campus School and for the past decade she has helped develop technology for educational and communication purposes for students with severe physical disabilities. After visiting Cork City to implement the technology in a school there, Gates thought it would be beneficial to try to strengthen that relationship.

From Boston to Ireland to Nantucket Sound

By Bill O'Donnellc
January 7, 2010
Bill O'Donnellc

Boston-Aided Foyleside Centre Thrives -- Opened 15 years ago in the city of Derry, it was a super shopping complex that initially drew criticism from many in the North when construction began. They said it was too large, too tempting a target for the paramilitaries, the glass atrium facade would never withstand IRA attack, and on and on. But it was built, a stunning 400,000 square feet of retail shops that defied the odds and might never have come to fruition if it hadn't been for critical links established in the 1980s between Boston and Derry.

Stepping Where My Grandfather Trod

Ed Forry
By Ed Forry
January 6, 2010

Is this the year to make that long-delayed trip to Ireland? I asked myself that question at the beginning of 2009, and as in previous years, the answer was a resounding "maybe."

Somehow, a trip back "home" to the land of the grandparents has always been a plan. Sure, I had made several trips to Ireland over the past two decades, each time having a great vacation but every time resolving to spend more time in advance planning and less time on the Irish roads, living out of a suitcase packed in the "boot" of a rental car.

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As Leaders Work on Recession Woes, They're Creating Future Benefits

By Joe Leary
January 6, 2010
Joe Leary

Every once in a while we have to be told to "slow down, you are going too fast; stop and think." Sometimes it is a speeding accident, or an exciting idea gone wrong, or a personal excess that should be controlled.

In Ireland's case it was the soaring economy, leaping home prices, and, in the face of free-flowing money, the rushing greed of more than a few Irish to get their shares.

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For Gerry Adams, It Was a Year of Trials at Work and at Home

By Robert P. Connolly
January 6, 2010
Robert P. Connolly

First came the startling news that the republican leader's brother, Liam Adams, was on the run, charged with having sexually abused his daughter for an eight-year period that began when the girl was 4. He was reported to be hiding in the Republic of Ireland and Gerry appealed to his brother to return to Northern Ireland to face the charges lodged against him.

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Newton-Kenya Exchange: Enriching Sounds of Music

By Sean Smith
January 5, 2010
Sean Smith

It seems so natural, such an everyday event, says Lindsay O'Donovan, for an adult to share music with a child, to sing and dance together – as O'Donovan has, whether with her own four children or the kids of relatives and friends.

But there are far too many children in the world who seldom, if ever, know the pleasure of sharing music, and O'Donovan hopes to change that, even if it's just in a little corner of Africa.

Chasing Joy – and Loving It!

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
January 2, 2010

The golf clubs have been put away and the skis are out. So begins another season. The sand in the upper chamber of life's hourglass slips inexorably below where all my yesterdays are stored.

With every season, the grains of sand in the "what's to come" chamber diminish as the "what has been" portion grows. At 70, one's future is measured not in years but in tomorrows.

When the snow falls, I'll be back on my skis, fighting both the winter chill and the aging process, refusing to give into the aches and pains that become harder to ignore with every passing year.

Of Center Field, a Darkened Dog Track, and Golf's Tiger

By Tom Mulvoy, BIR Staff
January 2, 2010
Tom Mulvoy, BIR Staff

Baseball has long carried the day when it comes to locutions that insiders and true fans use as a second language - the hot corner, a can of corn, the cycle, suicide squeeze, ribbie, Ks, the nickel curve, and the slider, to name just a few. Then there's the Hot Stove League, which for me conjures up a long-ago scene in an up-country general store where fans gathered around the warm central stove to swap baseball stories and promote a trade or two for the off-season.

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