Ronan Tynan, the famed Irish tenor, has apologized for anti-semitic remarks he admits having made which has cost him his regular Yankees 7th inning stretch appearance to sing 'God Bless America' and may damage his career.

Based on family names and individual stories, there are many hundreds of American dead with Irish heritage, including Americans who through parents or grandparents had become Irish citizens. 

This is a tribute to several of these brave Irish men and women.

Paul Hill: The sacrifice of the heroes of 9/11 must not be used as a justification for torture.

Eugene Kyne highlights the past week's senior hurling and junior and intermediate football action from Gaelic Park, as well as the results from the Dennis McHugh under-8 Gaelic Football Tournament in Rockland.

Eugene Kyne gives his predictions for the upcoming weekend's football and hurling fixtures from the Bronx.

Eugene Kyne gives the skinny on this weekend's upcoming football and hurling fixtures in the Bronx.

All the latest news and views from the New York GAA world.

Irish Americans and Irishmen disagree on many things. From the proper way to serve Guinness (Warm? Chilled?) to foreign policy; however, one thing I have realized my friends in both communities agree on is mutual confusion on why I would want to learn

The New York GAA football scene got a little clearer for the upcoming year with a dramatic piece of editing by the Association this past week. The alignments of the senior and junior divisions were changed dramatically, with an intermediate division born from necessity and intuition.

"Brotherhood," a stunning, 240-page book of photos, captures the heavily-Irish New York Fire Department in all its rugged, poignant suffering and glory. Pity Frank McCourt, who was drafted to write the introduction. His words are somehow supposed to stand alongside these extraordinary images.

Telling an as-yet-untold story about the heroic FDNY mission of September 11, Terry Golway writes: "Lieutenant Bob Bohack faced the dilemma of his career. He had his orders: He was to help extinguish the fire on the 79th floor. But those orders were given before he heard rumors of missiles, of more airplanes heading for New York.

Irish-American author Terry Golway has written about Irish Rebel John Devoy, as well as many Irish American topics from John Cardinal O'Connor to the New York City Fire Department (Golway's father was a firefighter). Now, Golway ventures into the field of American history with "Washington's General: Nathaneal Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution." For all the massive interest in America's founding fathers, Greene has gotten lost in the shuffle.

In 1999 Denis Leary, creator and star of the hugely popular series Rescue Me, lost his first cousin and a high school classmate in a fire in an abandoned warehouse in downtown Worcester, Massachusetts. To work though his overwhelming loss he founded the Leary Firefighters Foundation a year later, an organization that intentionally cuts through red tape to provide fire departments with funding and up-to-date equipment and training. He talks to CAHIR O'DOHERTY about his work.

Journalist Michael Daly's long-awaited book on the life and death of Father Mychal Judge, the first reported fatality on 9/11, is in many respects the work of a lifetime. Part eulogy, part celebration, it's the most intimate portrait of the beloved fire chaplain and the Irish American community he loved yet written. CAHIR O'DOHERTY talks to Daly about the inspirational life of a man many already consider a saint.

Edited by New York Daily News photo editor Shawn O'Sullivan, with text by veteran reporter Patrice O'Shaughnessy, "New York's Bravest: Eight Decades of Photographs" from the Daily News gathers nearly 140 photos of the FDNY at work and at play. To its credit, this book does not focus solely on the horrors of September 11. Instead, O'Sullivan - and of course, the many talented photographers who've graced the News' pages over the decades - present the FDNY in all its glory.

The Book of Mychal: The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge

Father Mychal Judge became such a symbol of hope and sacrifice amidst the suffering of September 11, that he has been discussed as a future saint in the Roman Catholic Church. As New York Daily News columnist Michael Daly - who has just written a fascinating biography of Judge's life and death - has said: Judge would probably consider sainthood a demotion. The point, of course (as made clear in Daly's book), is that Judge lived the kind of life he did not because he some day wanted to be canonized, but because he believed good works to be their own reward.

NYPD Detective Steven McDonald, who was paralyzed in 1986 after being shot while on duty, his wife Patti Ann McDonald, mayor of her hometown, Malverne in Long Island, and their 21-year-old son Conor, will travel to Ireland next week to mark the 10 year anniversary of Project Reconciliation - Northern Ireland.The McDonald family, accompanied by a small group from New York, will return to Omagh 10 years after the Omagh bombing in which 29 people lost their lives. Chaplain of the New York City Fire Department, Father Mychal Judge, who died on 9/11, was part of the convoy that went to Northern Ireland in 1998.

The New York GAA football scene got a little clearer for the upcoming year with a dramatic piece of editing by the Association this past week. The alignments of the senior and junior divisions were changed dramatically, with an intermediate division born from necessity and intuition. The senior division for the coming year will involve nine teams.

Kerry football legend Paidi O Se was in New York last week to launch his 2009 Gaelic football tournament, which takes place in Dingle, Co. Kerry at the end of February/start of March. Speaking from the New York offices of Tourism Ireland on Wednesday, O Se, who has been at the pulse of football since he was a teenager, said he was looking forward to expanding his tournament, which is in it's 19th year, to include sports men and women from across the Atlantic seas.

Dublin Fire Department 1-18

FDNY 2-08

IN a very entertaining encounter, the Dublin Fire Department used a second half display when they outshot their hosts New York 1-9 to 0-4 to take the Lord Mayor's Cup on Saturday under a beautiful autumn sun. With conditions perfect, they overcame a slim deficit at the half and used impressive individual displays by Seanan Moylan and Alan Moore to secure the victory.

Dublin Fire Brigade jumped out into an 0-6 to 0-2 lead in the first 15 minutes of this entertaining contest as they used the efficiency of frees to easily get on top.

CIE 1-11

FDNY 0-6

CIE Dublin had a comprehensive win over the Fire Department of New York in the opening game on Sunday in an interesting match. In the first of two games that the CIE were involved in, they swept to a good victory to punctuate their trip to New York.

Barry Annette had the opening point for the FDNY.

The annual ritual that is transfer night arrived last week with some big winners and losers as the night ended. In contrast to prior years when clubs could not lose more than three players to one club, this season Armagh and Donegal took major hits to their

The House of Representatives passed a $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Bill on Wednesday, February 25 for the 2009 fiscal year, which includes allocation of $285,000 for a Father Mychal Judge Center for Irish Exchange and Understanding at