The stretch limousine pulls up outside the backstage door at the Westbury Music Fair in Long Island, New York on a warm Sunday evening in early April. And Eddie Rabbitt, 6'3," skinny as a rail and clad in tight jeans and cowboy boots emerges. Fans lean over the rail to be kissed and have their hands shaken and Eddie smiles good-naturedly, signing autographs and joking to the … [Read more...] about An American Boy with a Touch of the Old Country
Interview
Margot O’Toole’s Scientific Integrity
By Maire Crowe May 1991
Six years after she lost her job for raising questions about the validity of her superior's scientific research data, Dr. Margot O'Toole, a Dublin-born biological researcher living in Boston, has been vindicated in spectacular fashion. Once shunned as a supposed troublemaker, she is now being hailed as a hero. And in the course of her now famed fight against the status quo of … [Read more...] about Margot O’Toole’s Scientific Integrity
Ted Kennedy: Staying the Course
By Michael Scanlon May 1991
"I don't think that there is any point in being Irish if you don't know that the world is going to break your heart someday." —Senator Pat Moynihan after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. But you didn't have to be Irish to feel a broken heart that cold November weekend in 1963 when – as a nation – we sat glued to our television sets to witness images forever etched on … [Read more...] about Ted Kennedy: Staying the Course
The Readers’ Writer
By Frank Shouldice April 1991
For someone on a rigorous public relations schedule, Maeve Binchy is a remarkably personable interviewee. The Dublin author arrived in New York on a brief but hectic promotional visit for her new book Circle Of Friends and although she is pressed for time and does speak quickly, there is an unhurried air about her. I had never met Maeve before and felt that she conveys a … [Read more...] about The Readers’ Writer
Mary Robinson: President for All the People
On December 3, 1990 Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first woman ever to be elected President of Ireland. That in itself, was a history-making event in a country where politics have been almost exclusively confined to the "Boys' Club." The world took note. A major British newspaper named her Woman of the Year and there were no fewer than 2,000 media requests for interviews. … [Read more...] about Mary Robinson: President for All the People