Out & About

The Irish Repertory Theatre is hosting The Yeats Project Festival which features 26 WB Yeats plays in 26 days all starting this Wednesday, April 8th, and running until Sunday May 3rd.

The festival will include eight plays on The Irish Rep's main-stage  and eighteen plays that will receive concert readings in the Studio Theatre at the Irish Repertory.

For more information you can visit irishrep.org or call (212) 727-2737.

Don't miss a great concert at the Gramercy Theatre featuring Gaelic Storm this Friday (April 10th).

Tickets are exclusively available at livenation.com.

Just got meet Maurice Launders of Irish Network NYC and he told me that they have a meeting coming up on Thursday April 16th (6.30pm - 8.30pm) at the Fitz Bar in Fitzpatrick's Manhattan Hotel on Lexington Avenue. All are welcome.

As we are talking about Fitzpatrick's Hotels, John Fitzpatrick is being honored with a special reception for his honorary OBE. Congratulations!

We called in to see Nicholas Cohen of Stitch Bar and Lounge (on West 37th Street) which was voted The Best After Work Bar, and where we had a nice cool pint.

We then  went across the street to his other store, the Houndstooth Pub (on the corner of 8th Avenue and 37th Street). This bar is really three bars in one and, let me tell you, it's a very, very comfortable place to meet with your friends.

Martin Whelan is all excited with the opening of Saint Andrews which has just relocated on West 46th Street.

The new bar has two floors for dining and private receptions.

Forty-sixth Street is rapidly becoming the 'in-place' to be as you have O'Briens Irish Pub a few doors away. That is a fun place to meet up for a nice meal, a pint and of course to have a chat with manager Cormac McCormack. You might also get to see the proprietors Des O'Brien and Pat Burke though these gentlemen are very busy with their other stores - the Pig 'N' Whistle Bar and Restaurant and Langan's Broadway Bar and Restaurant (both on 47th Street, off Broadway).

Watch out for a new Irish restaurant that will be opening very shortly called Lily Flanagan's. It can be found just off Union Square on 17th Street and, remember, you heard it here first that the decore is stunning!

The United Restaurant Tavern Owners'  directors were seen out in  force on Monday all heading for a meeting and leading them was none other than Bruce Caulfield from Tracks famous Oyster Bar.

All I can say is that they work very hard for the bar trade here in New York.

Along with Bruce in the group was Kathleen Reilly, the owner of the Coliseum and Brian Connell owner and partner in Bourbon Street.

To all you golfers out there, The New York Celtic Minor Football Club are having their 11th Annual Golf Tournament in memory of James O'Sullivan on Monday May 4th at Van Cortdlandt Golf Course.

Papillon Bistro and Bar (on East 54th Street) is the place to go for great atmosphere and to meet your friends and there to greet you all the way from Dublin is Reese who pours one mean good pint of Guinness.

The UEFA Champions League is now in its final stages with the cream of crop of top English teams, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, fighting for places in the final.

Well you might know who I am routing for it starts with an M... Hush now!

Hope to see you all next week.