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It could be, as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown puts it, "the final piece in the jigsaw" puzzle. And, in this case, it is a rather expensive piece, indeed. If it is, however, the piece that makes the whole Northern puzzle knit together, then it will be well worth the cost.
Ever since Northern Ireland's power-sharing government came to power in 2007, a key question has been: When will the Stormont government take control of policing and judicial functions in the North?
The first-ever Adams Corner Irish Heritage Festival, staged on the Sunday of the Columbus Day weekend, was a triumph on every count - as a community-building neighborhood event, and as evidence of a strong and vibrant community of residents who are proud of where they live.
We prominently displayed a front page photo of the event by our own Harry Brett on the front page of the next week's Dorchester Reporter, and it showed the streets around Adams Street and Gallivan Boulevard crowded with scores of happy folks.
Don't you hate it when you're sitting across the room from someone who refuses to answer their cell phone? Inevitably, you do a slow burn while they nonchalantly let it ring. And ring. And ring.
That's the jumping off point in Sarah Ruhl's comedy, "Dead Man's Cell Phone," playing at Lyric Stage Company of Boston through November 14. The production is directed by the award-winning Carmel O'Reilly.
Ah, Columbus Day Weekend in New England. Crisp autumn air, beautiful foliage, football – and some toe-tapping Celtic music, courtesy of BCMFest. This year's Columbus Day Weekend begins and ends with BCMFest, literally: on Friday, Oct. 9, the third BCMFest Goes West(ford) concert, and on Columbus Day (Oct. 12), the monthly BCMFest Celtic Music Monday show at Club Passim in Harvard Square, which will feature local Irish music.
Transcribing an interview with Girsa – the all-female, high school/college-age Irish-American band from Rockland County, NY, that is catching ears and turning heads in ever-increasing numbers – is a prospect only slightly easier than, say, reforming the American health care system.
Members of Girsa enthusiastically, and often not a little mischievously, finish one another's sentences – or quickly weigh in with their assessments of what's been said, or not said, or should be said. And there are more than a few fascinating tangents explored on the way to answering a question.
In a perfect world, one might assume that when he was growing up, the celebrated Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy played catch with his dad every summer day and went to Fenway Park so often that the crease in his pants ran sideways. But Shaughnessy does not live in a perfect world, and never did, in spite of a career and celebrity for which many of us, in a weedy moment, might consider a Faustian pact.
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepares to visit Northern Ireland next week in a bid to shore up the peace process, leaders from Ireland and Massachusetts will gather in Boston for a major conference to forge mutually beneficial transatlantic links.
Eight persons will be honored on Thursday, Oct 8, 2009, at the second
annual Golden Bridges Awards at the Seaport Hotel/Boston World Trade
Centre. The Awards are being hosted jointly by the Irish Echo
(www.irishecho.com) and the Boston Irish Reporter
(www.bostonirish.com) and will take place during the Gateways to
Tomorrow conference, building bridges between Boston and northwest
Ireland, at the same venue on 7-8 October.
The honorees are:
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Timothy Murray, Chief Honoree
and Guest Speaker
State Senate President Therese Murray
Michael Lonergan, Ireland's new Consul General to Boston, began his tenure here in a way none of his predecessors in the post had experienced. In an interview at the Consulate, he sat down with the BIR to talk about his memorable first days on the job, his first impressions of his new post, and his goals in the months to come.
Irish citizens faced a critical choice early this month and they bolstered the country's status in the European Union with a resounding vote in favor of accepting the "Lisbon Treaty" amendments to the European Union Charter just 16 months after rejecting the proposition and putting that status in peril.