Jean Oconnor News Today

50 Years Ago ■A proposal by the New England Farm Workers Council to use Smith Vocational and Agricultural School’s shop facilities to train Puerto Rican migrant workers in a marketable skill is under active study by the school’s board of trustees....

AN Irish woman has been arrested for the double murder of best friends Eoin O’Connor and Anthony Keegan.Ruth Lawrence, 42, originally from Clontarf

AN international warrant has been issued for the arrest of a woman wanted over the brutal murders of best friends Eoin O’Connor and Anthony Keegan.R

In this Abt webinar, panelists discuss the impacts of involving youth in the justice and child welfare systems, which can increase the lifelong risk for poor health and wellbeing.

People in rural areas suffer disproportionately from chronic health challenges and limited access health care. Abt experts discuss possible solutions on this podcast.

Updated: 22 Dec 2020, 12:43 THE sister-in-law of an ­innocent man shot dead in Ireland’s deadliest feud has revealed how his partner was just “millimetres” from death. Heartbroken Jean O’Connor told how a bullet narrowly missed Noel Kirwan’s partner Bernadette after a gunman fired eight shots as the pair sat in the victim’s Ford Mondeo outside their home in Clondalkin, west Dublin, on December 22, 2016. 3 3 Jean OConnor told how a bullet narrowly missed Noel’s partner BernadetteC...

Two local-area authors, Tom Harpole and Jean O’Connor, announced the release of new books. “Regarding Willingness – Chronicles of a Fraught Life” by Avon resident Tom Harpole is in its second printing, published by Riverfeet Press of Livingston, with Daniel Rice (editor) and Loren Harr (forward). According to amazon.com the book is a collection of 16 of his most popular stories. Tom “Harp” Harpole was a horse logger working from remote mountain camps and living in wall t...