BC’s Ireland Business Council members hear the Irish view on Brexit, co-dependence with US

By Daniel Sheehan
April 27, 2018
Daniel Sheehan

Brexit and Irish-American co-dependence were among the main talking points at a Global Leadership Symposium hosted by the Boston College Ireland Business Council at the BC Club in downtown Boston last month.
Irish Ambassador to the US Dan Mulhall spoke at length about the “Atlantic bridge” of history, culture, and ideas connecting the US and Ireland, describing the economic partnership between the two countries as the strongest it has ever been.

OMINOUS WARNINGS FROM NORTHERN IRELAND

By Joe Leary, Special to the Reporter
April 27, 2018
Joe Leary, Special to the Reporter

Northern Ireland today is operating as a nonfunctioning state without local government leadership. It is being administered and financed by British politicians from London on a part-time basis since the North’s political leaders have been unable to agree on how to govern themselves.

The bigotry and bitterness that exist amongst its 1.8 million people go back centuries to the time when the British government began the resettlement of Presbyterian Protestants from Scotland to Catholic Ireland.

Day by day he touts Ireland’s literary heritage

Ed Forry
By Ed Forry
April 27, 2018

Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States, Daniel Mulhall, visited Boston last month for an evening function at the Boston College Club and a noon time class with students at Tufts University. During his brief overnight visit, Mulhall was a guest breakfast speaker at the Nutter law offices hosted by attorney Bill Kennedy.

The ambassador was assigned to Ireland’s Washington embassy last August, after four years as envoy to London. A graduate of University College Cork, the Waterford native has also headed Ireland’s embassies in Germany and Malaysia.

Tourism Ireland brings ‘road show’ to Boston

By Ed Forry
April 27, 2018
Ed Forry

A dozen Irish hospitality officials and leaders of Tourism Ireland’s American bureau kicked-off a three American city roadshow in Boston on April 24 with a presentation to local travel trade and media members at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Some 150 invited guests heard about Irish vacation opportunities, including details about the Wild Atlantic Way, Northern Ireland, the Causeway Coastal Route, and the cities of Cork and Dublin. Presenters also spoke about Belfast’s Titanic heritage, Waterford Crystal, and a variety of other travel destinations across the island of Ireland.

COMINGS, GOINGS, AND DOINGS

By BIR Newsroom
April 27, 2018
BIR Newsroom

Ireland’s current Consul General, Fionnuala Quinlan, gave birth to her first child, a son born here in Boston on March 29, two weeks after she began her maternity leave. Said Acting Vice Consul Susan Geraghty Krusell in announcing the news: “Caelan Séamus Síva Ganti has arrived!” The infant, weighing 8 pounds, 3 ounces, his mother and his father, Ravi Ganti, “are all doing well,” Krusell said, “and they will be heading home from the hospital this weekend. The Consulate is so pleased to welcome our newest citizen.”

‘Fathers and Sons Afternoon’ set for Burren stage on Mother’s Day

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
April 27, 2018
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

May 13 is Mother’s Day this year, but it’ll be a “Fathers and Sons Afternoon” on the Burren Backroom stage. That’s because the Backroom series will feature a concert at 4 p.m. with Boston-area bouzouki player and singer John Coyne and Seattle-based fiddler/guitarist Randal Bays. And for good measure, the opening act will be their sons, accordionist Rory Coyne (13) and Owen Bays (14) on concertina.

“Always great to get the boys together,” says Bays, and deadpans: “We just hope they don’t upstage us.”

Aer Lingus Logan-to-Shannon route to be shut down in winter next year; Logan-Dublin flights to keep schedule

By BIR Newsroom
April 27, 2018
BIR Newsroom

Bostonians seeking to fly non-stop next winter from Logan Airport to Shannon in Co. Clare will be out of luck beginning next January, as Aer Lingus has announced it will suspend the direct service over the winter season in 2019. The airline instead will add additional Shannon/New York flights to JFK during those months. It will continue to offer Boston service to Dublin throughout the winter.

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