Irish America
Irish America
Organized labor has been declining steadily for the past two dedicates. Can John J. Sweeney, elected last year as the president of the AFL-CIO, reverse the trend? EIGHT stories above the ground in Washington, D.C., in an office just a few blocks from the White House, John J. Sweeney smiles at the suggestion that he is dangerous subversive. It is a suggestion he has heard … [Read more...] about A New Light for Labor?
Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen who penned such wonderful novels as The Death of the Heart and Demon Lover, and helped establish the 'Big House' in Irish literature, failed in her own efforts to save Bowen's Court, the family home in County Cork. The N73 between Mallow and Mitchelstown in County Cork is a sharply twisting two-lane road, shadowed by high hedges and unforgiving … [Read more...] about Death of the Heart
A MAN has been charged in connection with a collision in Liverpool during the Liverpool FC victory parade which injured nearly 80 people. Some 79 people were injured when a car collided with crowds in the Water Street area who had turned out to watch the parade on Monday, May 26. Today the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed it had authorised Merseyside Police to charge Paul … [Read more...] about Man charged in connection with collision at Liverpool FC victory parade named as Paul Doyle
GARDA investigating the disappearance and murder of Fiona Pender have revealed a new search at a... … [Read more...] about New search underway in Co. Laois for missing Fiona Pender
GARDA have appealed for witnesses after a pensioner was seriously injured when her car collided ... … [Read more...] about Witness appeal after pensioner seriously injured as truck and car collide in Galway
