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McLoughlin's strength comes from his family: His wife Donna and what he calls his "fine Irish children," 15-year-old Steven, 11-year-old Caitlin, nine-year. ....
In December, as a tribute to his contribution to the Fire Department both before and since the September 11 attacks, Irish tenor Ronan Tynan was made an honorary firefighter. Tynan’s affinity with the New York Fire Department goes back a long way. In 1984, at the New York Paralympics, he became friendly with some firefighters. This longstanding friendship led him to offer to sing at the funerals of two of the three firefighters who were killed in the Father’s Day tragedy in New York in June 2001. It was at these funerals that he met Deputy Fire Chief Ray Downey, who was to be one of the many firefighters to lose his life on September 11 and at whose memorial Ronan would later sing. After the attacks on September 11, Ronan went back to New York from Washington, where he had been due to sing at the Pentagon, and tried to help where he could. As a qualified medical doctor, he offered assistance at St Vincent’s but as the hospital was not overwhelmed by casualties, his help ....
Olympic champions Bob Tisdall and Ron Delany. By Irish America Staff There must be something in the water of Nenagh, County Tipperary. The town’s offspring seem to have unusually high traces of medal. Make that gold medal. 1956 Olympic 1,500 meter winner, Ronnie Delany, with the Tipperary Olympic Gold Memorial Committee has launched a project to honor three famous champions with Nenagh roots. Already fundraising has begun on the plan that will take £80,000 to complete. Designed by noted artist Jeanne Rynhart, a sculpture will feature life-size bronze statues of gold medallists Matt McGrath (16 lb. Hammer, 1912), Johnny Hayes (Marathon, 1908), both record-breakers, and Bob Tisdall (400m. Hurdles, 1932). Tisdall, the only living honoree (he resides in Australia), still lectures on physical fitness. And he practices what he preaches. At 86 he did his first parachute jump from 12,000 feet, at 90 he crewed the Lough Derg regata and at 93 – the oldest Olympian in the w ....
℘℘℘ My Name Is Red. Worth 100,000 euros, the IMPAC award is considered the most generous literary prize in the world. The winning book, by the Turkish writer and author of six novels which have been translated into more than 20 languages, is described as “a thickly-plotted murder mystery and love story set in 16th century Istanbul and concerned with the fate of Islamic artists.” Pamuk beat out weighty competition from John McGahern’s That They May Face This Rising Sun, Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, and Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto, to win the award. The IMPAC award was founded by Irish American James Irwin who is the chairman of IMPAC, a worldwide productivity firm, and chairman of IMPAC University, a state-licensed-degree-granting university in Florida. ....
℘℘℘ Dublin, September 11: Heading home from work, shocked by what I’d seen in the previous few hours, I wondered if people on the train felt the same as I did. Were they horrified? Were they feeling sick? Were they in shock? A group of schoolboys, loud with nervous excitement, talked about what they’d seen. But, for the most part, there was little conversation. That night and over the following few days, the words of Mary McAleese, Bertie Ahern, Mary Harney, the thousands of Irish people who stood in line for hours to sign books of condolences, and the near complete closure of Ireland and overflowing churches on September 15 for the National Day of Mourning convinced me that, yes, Irish people were feeling as I did. ....