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Irish sporting pioneers who helped shape global sport

Irish sporting pioneers who helped shape global sport

March 22, 2025 by

IRISH World of Sport, the latest book from Samuel Kingston — a contributor to RTÉ sport — details the historical impact the Irish have made on sports around the world.  Kingston writes: “A number of the biggest soccer clubs in England have Irish connections. Both clubs in Liverpool, George Mahon at Everton, while Monaghan-born Honest John McKenna at Liverpool was a key figure … [Read more...] about Irish sporting pioneers who helped shape global sport

Heathrow fully operational, post mortems begin

March 22, 2025 by

AS Heathrow begins to return to normal after the fire at the sub-station which closed the airport on Friday, major investigations and assessments have already begun into how and why such a disruption could have been allowed to happen at one of the world’s major transport hubs. Willie Walsh, the Dublin man who is Director General of IATA (The International Air Transport … [Read more...] about Heathrow fully operational, post mortems begin

Classically Irish

By Liz Ireland

January/February 1996

March 21, 2025 by

Liz Ireland profiles Ireland's classical composer Patrick Cassidy. Mention Irish classical music to the average American academic, and you will probably be greeted with the arch query: "Is there any such thing?"  There is now. Enter Patrick Cassidy, the Co. Mayo native whose debut oratorio The Children of Lir, released in the U.S. on Celtic Heartbeat Records, not only … [Read more...] about Classically Irish

A Touch of Friel

By Mary Pat Kelly

January/February 1996

March 21, 2025 by

Brian Friel himself cast Catherine Byrne as Chrissy in Dancing at Lughnasa after watching an Abbey Theatre dress rehearsal of his Aristocrats in which Byrne played clare. She talked of that moment during a pause in rehearsal for Molly Sweeney in which she plays the title role.  "He didn't know me," Catherine Byrne recalls, "and when I heard he was coming I thought, what's he … [Read more...] about A Touch of Friel

Glasgow goes green for St Patrick’s Day

March 21, 2025 by

THE Irish Scots are a very distinctive part of the Irish in Britain community. When Archbishop Thomas Joseph Winning was made Cardinal in 1994, a tartan army accompanied this son of an Irish miner, working in Lanarkshire, to the Vatican. The Archbishop's enthusiastic band of supporters rocked up in Rome to see him collect his red hat. They were festooned with shamrocks, wore … [Read more...] about Glasgow goes green for St Patrick’s Day

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