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On reaching the ripe young age of 59 -- Who is that guy in the mirror I wonder


I woke up yesterday morning to discover an impostor.I gazed in the mirror on my 59th birthday and realized I had been ... ...

May 19, 2012 by Niall O'Dowd 9
Tom Arnold, CEO of Concern Worldwide, Niall O’Dowd, founder of IrishCentral.com, Cormac Ó Gráda, Author and Professor at University of College Dublin School of Economics, and David Rieff, Journalist a

Could Ireland lead the world in ending hunger? Ireland, its Diaspora, and the fight against hunger


Tom Arnold, CEO of Concern Worldwide, and Niall O’Dowd, founder of IrishCentral, Irish America magazine, and Irish Voice, spoke at “The Fight Against Hunger: The History and Future of the Irish Role in Humanitarian Assistance”, th ...

May 18, 2012 by JANE WALSH 6

The Month’s Mind -- A letter to Rory, remembering a laughing boy with us no more


Rory Staunton Read more: A tribute to Rory Staunton   The Irish religious ritual of a “month’s mind”, exactly a month after a d ...

May 01, 2012 by Niall O'Dowd 21

Phew! A near disaster is averted on Bettystown Beach -- car set to float away on the tide until my relatives arrive


  Bettystown Beach (Credit: Paul Power) So on Wednesday afternoon I took a walk on Bettystown beach in County Meath, a wondrous place from my childhood ...

April 12, 2012 by Niall O'Dowd 17

Rory Staunton would have loved Tom Gibney’s underdog’s win at Fairyhouse race course


Andrew Thornton with Lion na Bearnai after the Fairyhouse win on Monday It rained for most of the day in County Meath on Monday, quite an appropriate scenari ...

April 11, 2012 by Cathal Dervan 0

God in a time of personal crisis –how does he measure up? What I learnt from a dark night of the soul amid pain and suffering


A man and woman praying So is there an all-loving all-seeing God or is it a convenient invention to salve the soul? I have had major reason to consider tha ...

April 11, 2012 by Niall O'Dowd 25

The final farewell as my family say goodbye to Rory Staunton -- A sad leavetaking for grieving relatives amid sodden Irish skies


  Rory Staunton On a wet and grey Easter Monday amid slanting rain, my nephew Rory Staunton was finally committed to the Irish soil, buried beside his b ...

April 10, 2012 by Niall O'Dowd 24

An Irish wake for Rory Staunton back home in Meath --- The families and friends gather for the timeless Irish ritual


  The Irish wake for my nephew Rory Staunton began in the parlor of his Aunt Derval’s house among the rolling hills and farmland of County Meath. Rory, aged 12, died at New York University Hospital a week ago from a ...

April 08, 2012 by Niall O'Dowd 17

The long journey home begins for 12-year-old Rory Staunton -- Taking his final trip back home to his beloved Emerald Isle


  Beloved Rory Staunton Rory Staunton, age 12 when he passed away, was always a little Irishman. He died in a New York hospital last weekend of a freak ...

April 07, 2012 by Niall O'Dowd 22

When darkness comes and illness strikes a child; My flood of letters from families who live in great pain


Periscope: Rory Staunton, a beautiful boy, leaves this earth. The hardest column I will ever have to write I have been overwhelmed by e mails and letters about Rory Staunton, my 12-year-old nephew who tragically passed from a t ...

April 06, 2012 by Niall O'Dowd 21
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