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Lansdowne rugby team remain unbeaten after Rockaway Fishead game (IrishCentral)

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:20:24 PDT

By: RICHIE PRICE

Last weekend home team Lansdowne beat an undermanned, but valiant Rockaway Fishead side by 50-38. The Irishmen were led by Blake Mannion's 3 first half tries as he maintained his torrid scoring pace. The 2nd half saw Rockaway roar back as the men from the peninsula scored five unanswered tries to make the numbers interesting.

Rockaway heroics highlighted by Irish leader Enda Kenny in New York - St. Patrick’s tribute to Irish American community after Superstorm Sandy struck (IrishCentral)

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 06:17:28 PDT

Hundreds of thousands turn out in NYC for the St Patrick's Day Parade despite wind and snow Enda Kenny, the Irish leader, took New York by storm on Saturday, marching in the parade before two million spectators and keeping a schedule that would have left younger men flailing as he raced from one Irish event to anotherIn the process Kenny provided clear evidence that after years of lip service, the role of the Diaspora has finally really begun to matter to influential Irish politicians READ MORE

Irish pride on parade as Superstorm Sandy hit Rockaways celebrated St Patrick (IrishCentral)

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:52:44 PST

By: DEBBIE MCGOLDRICK

It was said, in the brutal aftermath of Hurricane Sandy last October, that a casualty of the mega-storm could be the annual St. Patrick’s parade in Rockaway, one of the areas in New York ravaged by pounding rain, winds and wildfire.

Mayor Bloomberg booed by angry Irish residents in Rockaways parade (IrishCentral)

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:37:07 PST

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

Angry Irish Americans booed Mayor Michael Bloomberg over his handling of Hurricane Sandy at the Rockaways St Patrick’s Day parade on Saturday.

St Patrick’s Day Parade signals the ‘Rebirth of Rockaway’ (IrishCentral)

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:22:29 PST

By: SEAN BROSNAN

Green was the colour of resiliency yesterday afternoon as thousands upon thousands of embattled Rockaway residents turned up to celebrate the 38th annual Queens County St Patrick’s Day Parade at Rockaway Beach, just 4 months after their homes and businesses were ripped apart by Hurricane Sandy.

Rock on Rockaway - time for the Irish American community to rally and ensure Sandy struck community have their St. Patrick’s Day parade (IrishCentral)

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:52:15 PST

By: Irish Voice Editorial

The news that the Rockaway St. Patrick’s parade may be in financial jeopardy is a distressing coda to all that happened after Hurricane Sandy.

Rockaway St. Patrick's Day parade battles financial crisis after storm damage - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:16:07 PST

By: DEBBIE MCGOLDRICK

Hurricane Sandy left a trail of destruction in the Rockaway Peninsula last October, but the one thing the storm couldn’t wreck is the annual Rockaway St. Patrick’s parade, even though organizers admit to being cash-strapped due to a lack of normal fundraising.

Top Irish athletes restore key community buildings in Rockaways, Breezy Point (IrishCentral)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 04:26:33 PST

By: DEBBIE MCGOLDRICK

After Hurricane Sandy tore through the heart of Breezy Point in Queens, one of the most Irish neighborhoods in America, a group of Irish GAA superstars took it upon themselves to travel twice across the Atlantic to help with the rebuilding.

Irish sports heroes are helping rebuild shattered Rockaways (IrishCentral)

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 04:28:57 PST

By: SEAN POTTS

A dedicated group of top Irish athletes this weekend are helping rebuild the shattered Rockaways after Hurricane Sandy. Their involvement is being followed by NBC Nightly News, The New York Times and many other media outlets.

Irish government donate $322,000 to aid Sandy victims & New York Irish’s Christmas Day of Action - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:44:09 PST

By: JANE WALSH

The Irish government has donated $322,000 (€250,000) in emergency funding to Irish voluntary organizations on the east coast of the US in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

New York Irish Center launch Christmas shoe box collection for children in the Rockaways (IrishCentral)

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:32:20 PST

By: BRENDAN CHARLES

Until December 14, the New York Irish Center – located in Long Island City – will collect donated shoeboxes, filled with Christmas gifts for boys and girls, in the hopes of improving the holiday season for children in The Rockaways.

All-Star line-up slated for Joe Hurley’s “A Dickens Christmas for The Rockaways” (IrishCentral)

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 05:21:08 PST

By: JANE WALSH

"A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm."

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Hurricane Sandy one month on - Irish Day of Action reveals many still hurting in the Rockaways (IrishCentral)

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:24:31 PST

By: MOLLY MULDOON
MOLLY MULDOON was part of an Irish Day of Action contingent that cleaned homes along the Beach 90 streets. It was an experience she won’t soon forget.
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Sandy Seisiuns kick off - Irish musicians aid Breezy Point and the Rockaways (IrishCentral)

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:27:47 PST

By: BRENDAN CHARLES
On December 1 and 21, a live music and hurricane relief benefit will take place at Connolly’s Klub 45 in New York City.
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Ode to the Rockaway Beach Boardwalk - runners raise funds for Hurricane Sandy hit area (IrishCentral)

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:00:23 PST

By: FATHER BRIAN JORDAN
On Saturday morning, Oct. 27, I was finishing my last 6 mile run on the Rockaway Beach Boardwalk in preparation for the Nov. 4, 2012 New York City Marathon. It was a sunny, cool day with many people either walking, running, riding bicycles or guiding baby carriages along the recently renovated boardwalk.
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A new spirit in the Irish community after Rockaways Day of Action -- A real insight into how much a united community can accomplish (IrishCentral)

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 04:31:15 PST

The Irish lend a helping hand in the Rockaways (Photo: Sean McPhail)The success of the Irish Day of Action in Rockaway when 1,000 Irish descended on the devastated Rockaway Peninsula has led to a new spirit in the Irish communityRocked back on its heels by the lack of emigration and the tough times for many of the older Irish organizations, the Rockaway day was an amazing insight into how much the community can still accomplishFrom earliest dawn on Saturday all over New York and in many places upstate the Irish came together in the best spirit of the Meitheal, the Gaelic word meaning a gathering to help neighbors in needWhat was truly heartening was the mixture from the youngest of Irish organizations to the oldest, to the geographic spread across all communities READ MORE

1,000 Irish show up for Rockaway ‘Day of Action’ to rebuild community - Live aid for stricken Rockaway residents after Hurricane Sandy (IrishCentral)

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 04:31:26 PST

On Beach 96th Street in the Rockaways, right by the ocean, the local health clinic was a needed lifelineSince Hurricane Sandy however, the clinic has been shuttered, the water made it up to the second floor and everything inside was destroyedThe mold is visible on the walls, the carpets ruined and destroyed The clinic is in sad disrepair READ MORE

The Rockaways of the youth - reflections on the shattered neighborhood post Hurricane Sandy (IrishCentral)

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:01:22 PST

The crumbled Rockaway boardwalk after SandyLast Sunday was sunny and mild and for a November already in its second week heading towards winter, the kind of bonus day those who lived in the Rockaways would love go for a walk, run or ride on the boardwalk that stretched from Belle Harbor to Far RockawayBut Hurricane Sandy put a stop to that on Halloween eve as the storm surge that united the Atlantic Ocean with Jamaica Bay for the first time that anyone could remember tore asunder the entire seven mile boardwalk, moving entire sections of it inland a block or two along with sand dunes as far as Rockaway Boulevard The damage caused by the deluge and the resultant power outages still afflicting the peninsula because of an ill-prepared, overwhelmed or inept utility called LIPA (Long Island Power Authority) gave it the appearance and the reality of an instant warzone The Rockaways, traumatized by 9/11 with so many victims who never came home and a subsequent tragedy a month later when a jumbo jet fell from the sky onto Belle Harbor streets and homes after a take off from nearby Kennedy Airport, and now Hurricane Sandy, tested the resilience and the resolve of the New York Irish American community once again READ MORE

Irish fight back begins in Rockaways after Hurricane Sandy devastation -- Spending time with the brave residents of a devastated beach town (IrishCentral)

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:15:57 PST

The Rockaways - Once a refuge for 9/11 emergency workers Harbor Lights Pub is now destroyedBelle Harbor, Rockaway Beach, Sunday: The cruel sea came pouring into this peninsula driven by the hurricane force winds of Hurricane SandyFor the first time in living memory the waters of Jamaica Bay met the Atlantic Ocean over land and left havoc and destruction in its wakeThe only frame of reference I can give you in terms of devastation is 9/11 and even that was concentrated in a small part of New York CityI visited Ground Zero and its surrounding neighborhood just two days after that attack and Rockaway, Broad Channel, and the other communities impacted by Hurricane Sandy are déjà vu all over again READ MORE

Anger towards Obama, Cuomo, Bloomberg in Irish Rockaways - President’s visit may trigger a hostile reception for governor, mayor too (IrishCentral)

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 04:45:58 PST

Governor Cuomo and Mayor BloombergNew York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Andrew Cuomo will accompany President Obama on his tour of ravaged areas in New York on ThursdayExpect a hostile reception especially in the Irish Rockaways, the people that New York forgot, in the aftermath of Hurricane SandyTalking to people there the sense of betrayal is very real “We feel utterly betrayed by the government” said one Rockaway Irish resident to me today READ MORE