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Last week, the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s board of directors approved a plan to build a new $50 million fieldhouse in Dorchester’s Columbia Point neighborhood. The vote was unanimous, and for good reason: This project, once completed, will be a game-changer for the kids in our city who deserve the sort of state-of-the-art, indoor facility that will be built along
By Ed Forry Our Galway correspondent, Larry Donnelly, contacted me this month to introduce Sharon Fitzpatrick, the development director for COPE Galway, a social services agency in that city. “She is eager to establish relationships with Irish Americans in Boston and New York,” Donnelly told me, “Specifically those with ties to Galway and the west of Ireland – and to raise
By Ed ForryRoughly 200 people gathered in chilly weather late Sunday afternoon (Jan. 16) at a candle-lit prayer vigil for a young teacher who was murdered last week near her hometown in Ireland. Ashling Murphy, 23, was assaulted and killed while out for a run on the Grand Canal Walk in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, last Wednesday, an unsolved crime that has shocked the Irish people
Aer Lingus Boston flights to Shannon to ResumeBy Ed Forry, Boston Irish PublisherThe Boston to Ireland’s Shannon Airport flights, popular with New Englanders with family ties in the west of Ireland, will resume in the spring, Aer Lingus has announced.
By Ed ForryBoston Irish PublisherDaniel Mulhall became Ireland's 18th Ambassador to the US in August 2017. A native of Co. Waterford, he holds degrees in modern Irish history from University College Cork. He is a 43-year veteran of Ireland’s Dept of Foreign Affairs, and has served in New Delhi, Vienna, Edinburgh, Malaysia, and Germany.