A ‘Beanpot’ for Irish Dance? Please Stay Tuned

By Sean Smith
May 6, 2011
Sean Smith

BY SEAN SMITH
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
Is it too soon to call it “The Greenpot”?
Irish dance – rather than hockey – was the focus of a recent local showcase for several dozen students representing Boston area colleges. The event, titled “We Got the Beat,” took place April 2 at Harvard University, featuring Irish dance teams from Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, and Tufts University (a troupe from Massachusetts Institute for Technology also had been scheduled to participate but was unable to appear).

For James Dolan, Judging Let Him See Up Close How Life Played Out for Real

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
May 6, 2011

BY GREG O’BRIEN
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
A local superman of sorts, James W. Dolan has pursued truth, justice, and the American Way for most his adult life. But there’s a little of a Tom Cruise character in him, and, for that matter, in all of us, defined in the compelling courtroom moment in the classic movie A Few Good Men when Jack Nicholson as the crusty Col. Nathan R. Jessep turned to Cruise in the role of prosecutor Lieutenant JG Daniel Kaffee, and barked, “You can’t handle the truth!”

It was a Bitter Cup of Tea Then, and the Same is True Today

By Peter Stevens
May 6, 2011
Peter Stevens

I’m begging anyone in these parts with green bloodlines to please put down the “tea.” Every time anyone in or around Boston, or the rest of Massachusetts, imbibes the Tea Party brew, a historical fog envelops him or her. The lessons of the past evaporate, the concoction’s residue a soggy, sorry blend of simplistic bromides, cultural, racial, and ethnic epithets, and distortion of the past.

Blessed ‘Bongo’ – Man, Priest, Teacher

By Ed Forry
May 6, 2011

BY JAMES W. DOLAN
SPECIAL TO THE REPORTER
This is the season of acceptances and rejections when high school seniors experience the joy of victory or the agony of defeat when the dreaded envelopes arrive.
My oldest grandchild, a senior at BC High, applied to about 10 colleges and, unlike me, got into most of them. It looks like he will be studying engineering at Notre Dame next year.

When the Words Make a Difference

Ed Forry
By Ed Forry
May 6, 2011

by Ed Forry
For those lingering lost souls who struggle accepting that the American people voted to elect Barack Obama as their president, there were a few public utterances made within a few short days this spring that speak volumes about political discourse in our great country.While his political opponents wasted much time and energy to distract our president from doing his job, Obama revealed the true depths of his extraordinary leadership skills and political acumen.

Members Fight Sale of Irish Social Club

By Ed Forry
May 6, 2011

by Bill Forry
Officials with the Irish Social Club in West Roxbury plan to close its doors permanently and sell its Park Street property — a decision that has sparked protests from members and neighbors who want the club to stay open.
News of the sale — first reported by West Roxbury Patch in April— stunned many members and patrons, who say that the decision to sell the building was made without their input.

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