Travel 2003 - The Year of Living Dangerously for Sean Murphy

There's no lack of excitement in Sean Murphy's life these days. As the President of Irish Travel Bureau Inc., and the Vice-President of Kemtpville Travel though, Murphy would be happy with a little less drama, considering the type of year the travel industry has just endured. But so long as...

Monday, 01 June 2009 | 208 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more

Tony O'Donahue Takes On The Queen

He may not be the first Irishman to take on the Queen of England, but Tony O'Donohue is taking his fight with the crown all the way to one of the highest courts in Canada. Mr. O'Donohue, a former Toronto City Councillor, and a native of Fanore, County Clare, where his family still runs a pub,...

Monday, 01 June 2009 | 251 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more

Lives Lived - Sean Joseph McNamara

Husband, father, grandfather, brother, businessman, charity and community organizer. Born on June 18th, 1942 in Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare, Ireland. Died, August 22nd, 2003 in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, of liver cancer, aged 61. There is an old song from County Clare, on Ireland's west...

Monday, 01 June 2009 | 201 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more

Cathal Kelly - Still Tickling The Ivories at 83

At this stage of the game, Cathal doesn't have to bring his rubber bands and thumb tacks with him when he plays the pianos at his local Legion or beloved Galway Arms. Back in 1941 during 'The Emergency', he and his band, 'The Black Diamonds' from Castlecomer used to cycle the roads of north...

Sunday, 31 May 2009 | 215 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more

Irish Canadian Links and the Green Links of Hibernia

While the love affair between Ireland and Canada goes back to St. Brendan the Navigator in the 6th Century when he is reputed to have sailed in a leather boat from County Kerry to Newfoundland (a voyage that was recreated by Tim Severin in 1977), many of the ancestors of present day Irish Canadians...

Monday, 01 June 2009 | 245 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more

Not Very Funny - Insulting Actually

In May 2003, the National Post published an article that in the opinion of the Toronto Irish News was insulting to the Irish and trivialized in a satirical manner, a very serious problem in regards to youth drinking ...

Saturday, 30 May 2009 | 140 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more