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.

USA Graduate Program Has Irish Links

By Sue Asci
January 2, 2010
Sue Asci

An innovative program to encourage students to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM fields) is attracting thousands of students to Syracuse, N.Y.

USAGraduate is a 10-week interactive internet-based quiz program that offers students in grades 6 through 12 an opportunity to study STEM topics and compete for prizes such as iPods and laptop computers.

Success Follows Hard Work and Then Some for Tom 'Red' Martin, BC Hockey Legend

By Greg O'Brien
January 2, 2010
Greg O'Brien

Tom Martin took to ice as a young boy as cod take to the sea. It was his lifeblood. In high school, he used to run to his Cambridge home backwards from Harvard Square, practicing the art of a pivot so he could perform the difficult maneuver without hesitation on ice.

"I was just a dog," he says of his workouts that led to star status in hockey at Boston College and on the 1964 US Olympic Team at Innsbruck.

Saville Report Delay Unconscionable

By Bill O'Donnell
December 5, 2009
Bill O'Donnell

This new year, 2010, will be the 12th anniversary of the start of the Saville Inquiry into the January 1972 massacre, Bloody Sunday, when 13 unarmed Derry citizens were shot to death by British paratroopers on the streets where they lived. A fourteenth would die later of his wounds. No one has ever been charged, no one has been adjudged guilty, and the fact that it has taken a dozen years - with the end not yet in sight - to try to clean up his Lordship Widgery's disgraceful whitewash should be an acute embarrassment to the British legal establishment.

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BCMFest: One month to go

By Sean Smith
December 5, 2009
Sean Smith

One month to go - Just a few more weeks to go before the 7th annual BCMFest on January 8 and 9, including performances by The Makem and Spain Brothers; Tina Lech and Ted Davis; David O'Docherty; The Gobshites; Liam Hart; Sean and John Connor; Tri; Colm O'Brien; Flynn Cohen and John McGann; Calum Pasqua and Susie Petrov; Kate Chadbourne; Nancy Mulrey; Michael O'Leary; Laurel Martin, Kieran Jordan and David Surette; Bento Boxty; Gordon Aucoin and Lloyd Carr; Cedar Stanistreet and Max Newman; plus a family-oriented musical story, "The Fiddler's Wish," and a special one-of-its-kind ensemble th

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A Conversation in the Oval Office

By irishadmin
December 5, 2009

Senator John McCain and President Barack Obama are meeting in the Oval Office. Let's listen in on the conversation:

McCain: "You can't be serious about pulling out of Afghanistan and Iraq, Mr. President."

Obama: "Oh, but I am, John. I was elected to take this country in a new direction and that's what I'm going to do. These wars have been an enormous drain on this nation with little to show for it - only more blood and money with no end in sight and no assurance of success."

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Happy Coupling in Liscaroll, Co. Cork: The Donkey Sanctuary and the Christmas Spirit

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
December 5, 2009

At Christmastime, as the creche is unpacked and set up on the mantelpiece, I pause when I take out the old gray donkey and think about the wonderful work done by Paddy Barrett and his dedicated and caring staff at The Donkey Sanctuary in Liscarroll, Mallow, Co. Cork.

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