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Hall of Fame: An Honest Broker Congressman Richie Neal

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
March / April 2020

March 1, 2020 by Leave a Comment

Last April, U.S. Congressman Richard E. ­Neal had an extraordinary moment when he was able to pay tribute to his personal as well as political forebears – not in his native Massachusetts, but in Northern Ireland. “It is with no small amount of humility that I accept this honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Ulster University, and I accept in honor of my grandmother, Mary … [Read more...] about Hall of Fame: An Honest Broker Congressman Richie Neal

Protests at Catholic School

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2002

December 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

A Catholic school student and her mother make their way to Holy Cross Roman Catholic school under a heavy police and British Army presence in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2001. Protestants in the bitterly divided north Belfast neighborhood of Ardoyne hurled rocks, bricks, bottles and even flower pots at the heavily girded officers protecting the girls as they arrived for school. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

North Belfast, Oct. 23 – Loyalist protestors who have spent the last eight weeks blocking Catholic children from entering their school were threatened with legal action if they do not call off their protests. The governors of the Holy Cross School in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast announced they were going to the High Court if the stand-off continued. The protestors came … [Read more...] about Protests at Catholic School

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