Citizen of the Year: Dr Ian Cappe Dr Ian Cappe has lived in Lismore for 34 years and provided radiology services to Lismore Base Hospital throughout that time. He is currently the Clinical Director of Radiology and introduced interventional radiology and has provided highly specialised skills in this area, including in patient management resulting in minimal access removal of kidney stones.  Lismore City Council has named Dr Ian Cappe as its Citizen of the Year for his outstanding work including providing radiology services to Lismore Base Hospital throughout that time.  This has totally changed the management of Vascular Disease and kept Lismore in front of most other hospitals in the services that are available to our local population.
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Joe McGarrity was éamon de Valera’s right hand man in America and was once described by poet Padraic Colum as “a gallowglass ready to swing a battleaxe with his long arms.” It was an apt description for the old warrior.
McGarrity was born in Carrickmore, County Tyrone, in 1874. Legend has it that as a penniless 16-year-old he walked to Dublin, boarded a cattle boat to Liverpool disguised as a drover, and sailed to America on someone else’s ticket. He settled in Philadelphia and made a fortune selling liquor and real estate.
He joined Clan na Gael, the Fenian movement in America, and devoted his life to the cause of Irish independence. He conferred the title “President of the Irish Republic” on Eamon de Valera when the latter landed in New York in June 1919 to seek U.S. support for the Irish Republic declared by the first Dáil in January 1919.
Ronan O Connell, CNN • Updated 20th January 2021
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Perth, Australia (CNN) It all began with a letter sent from inside an Australian tomb, a document so convincing that it prompted a US gang to sail some 20,000 kilometers (12,427 miles) to execute what could arguably be considered one of the most outrageous prison escapes in Australian history.
The year was 1876. Using a series of codes and disguises, the bold group snuck into Western Australia to free six Irish political prisoners.
Now, 145 years later, a new generation of Australians is learning about this prison break thanks to WA Museum Boola Bardip.
The museum, which reopened in November 2020, was closed for four years for redevelopment. Featuring eight new galleries, it s located on the same site it has occupied since 1891, when it opened as a geological museum in the Old Perth Gaol.
in Kildare From left: Garrett Doyle, Kildare Association of New York; Peter Carey, Chief Executive, Kildare County Council; Mayor of Kildare, Councillor Brendan Weld; Kevin O’Malley, Ambassador of the United States of America; Mike Flood, Kildare Association of New York; and Marian Higgins, County Librarian of Kildare attend the unveiling of the Naas statue last year. By Julia Brodsky, Editorial Assistant
Last October, a statue of John Devoy was unveiled in Naas, Co. Kildare, the New York Fenian’s home county, aided primarily by the Kildare Association of New York, which raised the funds for the monument.
Though Devoy was highly instrumental in organizing the 1916 Easter Rising, his name is often forgotten, as he lived in forced exile from Ireland after his 1866 arrest for participation in planning an Irish uprising. Before his arrest, Devoy had been a leader in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and once he settled in New York, became active in