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Investigation after man shot while playing soccer in Co. Tipperary

January 8, 2024 by

GARDAÍ are investigating after a man was shot while playing soccer in Co. Tipperary. The incident occurred shortly after 9pm during a match under floodlights at a sports venue in Rear Cross. The man sustained a gunshot wound to his arm and was treated at the scene by emergency services personnel. He was subsequently brought by ambulance to University Hospital Limerick, although … [Read more...] about Investigation after man shot while playing soccer in Co. Tipperary

‘He was pure love’: Imelda May pays emotional tribute after her father passes away

January 8, 2024 by

IRISH singer Imelda May has paid an emotional tribute to her father after he passed away in hospital. The singer's dad, Tony Clabby, was admitted to hospital late last year, with May previously revealing how he had been in good spirits following his admission. However, in a social media post in the early hours of Sunday, she wrote that he had told her he would soon be reunited … [Read more...] about ‘He was pure love’: Imelda May pays emotional tribute after her father passes away

£250,000 in cash and suspected cocaine seized during vehicle stop in Co. Down

January 8, 2024 by

POLICE have seized around £250,000 in cash and suspected cocaine valued at more than £100,000 during a vehicle stop in Co. Down. The discovery was made after detectives from the PSNI's Organised Crime Branch stopped and searched the car on the A1 on Saturday morning. A man and woman arrested at the scene remain in custody. "Shortly after 8.35am, officers stopped and searched a … [Read more...] about £250,000 in cash and suspected cocaine seized during vehicle stop in Co. Down

RIP Joe Leary

By Michael Quinlin
IA Newsletter September 23, 2023

September 21, 2023 by

Joe Leary in front of Boston Harbor Hotel (photo courtesy of Irish American Partnership)

Joseph F. Leary, a leader in Boston's Irish-American community since the 1980s, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his loving family on September 18, at age 90. Preceded in death by his wife, Eileen (Sullivan) Leary in 1981, Joe is survived by his two children, Joseph of South Boston and Eileen and her husband Thomas Johnson of Boston and Harwich Port. Prior to … [Read more...] about RIP Joe Leary

Ireland: A Quilt of Many Patches and Colors

By Kelly Candaele
IA Newsletter August 26, 2023

August 25, 2023 by

Kelly Candaele and Declan Kiberd in Dublin in April 2023.

It is somehow fitting that the Good Friday Peace Agreement of 1998 has become inseparable from Irish poetry. If, for a moment, “hope and history rhymed” or those involved in resolving the conflict “walked on air against their better judgment,” politicians and other speechifiers have poet Seamus Heaney to thank for their grab-bag of metaphorical phrases. In an earlier era of … [Read more...] about Ireland: A Quilt of Many Patches and Colors

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