Nun killed, priest injured

Longford-born Msgr. John Sheridan, 95, is in a critical but stable condition at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after a car crash in which a 74-year-old Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo nun, Sr. Mary Campbell, was killed. Also critically injured was the driver of the car in the single vehicle accident, Douglas Kmiec, a law professor [...]

Irish at forefront of Hawaii’s language revival

By Máirtín Ó Muilleoir Hilo, Hi. – A hearty céad mile fáilte wasn’t what the Irish Echo was expecting at the Hawaiian language department of the University of Hawaii but then it’s not every day that lecturer Keola Donaghy gets to practice his Irish. A polymath who hails from Philadelphia, Keola  – bar the fluency [...]

Saving schools

It’s back to school season, although increasingly teachers and students don’t cut their ties over the long summer break. There are those, too, who in a sense have never left school. The Echo has reported separately in recent months about three such people who’ve who retained close attachments to and indeed love for their alma [...]

Jesuit believes CIA files can unlock 27-year mystery

By Peter McDermott An American priest based in Nicaragua is asking President Obama and Democratic Party leaders to help solve a 27-year mystery – the fate of his fellow Jesuit, the Rev. James “Guadalupe” Carney. The Rev. Joseph Mulligan and Carney’s relatives believe that the blacked out pages of a 1990s Central Intelligence Agency report [...]

Aegis founder Spicer has not left the building

By Susan Falvella Garraty Earlier this month, Aegis Defense Services set up a non-operating holding company in Basel, Switzerland. Aegis has an estimated 20,000 employees involved in private security efforts around the world; it formed the new holding company in the neutral European nation’s more hospitable tax environment. Several media reports indicated Tim Spicer, the [...]

Down break Kildare hearts, through to Sept. 19 final

By Kieran Rooney JUST as the Dublin supporters left Croke Park devastated the week previously, Kildare fans must still be pondering about how events conspired against them last Sunday. Not that anyone should argue about the merit of Down’s performance in beating Kildare 1-16 to 1-14 in the second All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final. They [...]

The many musical sides of Martin Mulhaire

By Earle Hitchner Soft-spoken and unpretentious, composer and button accordionist Martin Mulhaire is a consummate gentleman who shuns the spotlight. He also happens to be one of the most gifted, knowledgeable, thoughtful, perceptive, tasteful, open-minded, and fascinating musicians I’ve ever met. Ezra Pound urged poets to “make it new.” Martin Mulhaire, who’s from Eyrecourt, East [...]

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First Report of the Independent Monitoring Commission on paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland

CONTENTS (the report is 67 pages long and may also be downloaded at the Commission’s web site, www.independentmonitoringcommission.org). 1. Introduction and context. 2. Scope of the Report 3. Paramilitary groups ? organisation and assessment of current activities 4. The incidence of violence by paramilitary groups 5. Incident in Belfast on 20 February 2004 6. Paramilitary [...]

Google confuses Dublin with one of its parts

By Susan Falvella Garraty Google announced last week that it’s adding 200 jobs to its center in Dublin, but hopefully one of the new hires can fix a glaring error in the Google Map function. Currently, Google shows Dublin, Ireland, as being in County Fingal. Well, everyone knows that Dublin is in County Dublin. There [...]