Suffolk University President McCarthy fills role of a Renaissance man in challenging times

By Greg O'Brien
June 3, 2013
Greg O'Brien

BY GREG O’BRIEN
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
If they handed out frequent flier miles for an extended resume, Jim McCarthy would fly free, first class, the rest of his life. Instead, the president of Suffolk University is flying high in the academic world. To say that he is a Renaissance man is to say that Isaac Newton could count.

The value of accommodation

By Ed Forry
June 3, 2013

BY JAMES W. DOLAN
SPECIAL TO THE REPORTER
I refer not to the residential kind of accommodations of which we are all familiar but the adjustments one must make to the inevitable vicissitudes one experiences navigating the rolling swells that sometimes threaten life’s equilibrium.
Adapting to such currents requires patience, self-control, tolerance, understanding, and the capacity to overlook annoyances. By “overlook” I do not mean “ignore” but to look beyond the immediate irritation to something more important than anger or withdrawal.

About blights – the natural, and the man-made

By BY PETER F. STEVENS
June 3, 2013
BY PETER F. STEVENS

Recently, scientists announced the discovery of the actual strain of potato blight that unleashed the Great Famine, An Gorta Mor. The natural villain behind at least a million deaths from starvation or disease and the Irish Diaspora of the mid-1800s was “HERB-1,” the name that an international team of molecular biologists has give to the lethal blight.

Delivering hopeful change to both Dublin and Belfast Information technology training for the Irish unemployed and underemployed

By Joe Leary
June 3, 2013
Joe Leary

BY JOE LEARY
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
This is a bit of a personal story for me – testimony to the help that Irish America has provided to the most severely disadvantaged areas of Dublin and the rest of Ireland.
Social planners 50-60 years ago built huge apartment buildings to shelter those who were unable to purchase homes for themselves. As a social experiment they turned out to be disasters. Many of us will remember the “Columbia Point” project here in Boston as a well-intended answer to low income housing. It no longer exists.

Where to go in Ireland? There’s much to choose from

By Ed Forry
June 3, 2013

by Judy Enright
Special to the BIR
Want to know where to go when you visit Ireland? Well, check out recommendations from some of the Irish who voted for the best place to vacation in Ireland. The Irish Times newspaper recently announced 25 locations shortlisted by their panel of judges from 1,400 nominations submitted since March. The judges, most of whom are in some aspect of tourism, will choose an overall winner.

Irish Voting from abroad? New EU plan may mandate it

By Bill O'Donnell
June 3, 2013
Bill O'Donnell

EU May Force Voting For Expatriates – As it currently stands, Ireland is just one of six European Union countries that exclude their citizens abroad from voting in home elections. There has been continuing but ineffective pressure from young Irish living overseas to be allowed to vote in national elections, but that may soon be changing. Some top officials in Ireland and the EU are proposing legislation that would make all members of the Union eligible to vote in elections in their home countries, and Ireland would be ready.

Dorchester Rep. Dorcena Forry to take a seat in the State Senate

By Ed Forry
June 3, 2013

BY BIR STAFF
State Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry coasted to a win on May 28 in a special election to fill a vacancy in the Massachusetts state Senate’s First Suffolk District. A Haitian-American, Dorcena Forry will take a seat in the 40-member Senate that has long been held by Irish-American men, such as William Bulger, Stephen Lynch, and Jack Hart.

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