By Paddy McCarthy The World Cup has just finished with one of the greatest teams in the world from South America winning it, yes that is Argentina along with one of the greatest players that has ever played the game...
By Paddy McCarthy James (Jim) McKeon was multi-talented, a published author and an irregular columnist for this paper up to the time he passed away. Jim had a lifelong love of words, but writing was only one of his many...
By Paddy McCarthy Kevin J. Conway, Grand Marshal of the 2023 New York City St Patrick’s Day Parade was introduced to the community at an event hosted at the Irish Consulate by the Consul General of Ireland, Helena Nolan. Parade...
By Paddy McCarthy I am going to start my Out&About with some very sad news on a very good friend of mine who I’ve known all the way back to my music days. His name is Tony O’Sullivan, late of...
By Paddy McCarthy Tony and Emmy nominee Gabriel Byrne’s solo show Walking with Ghosts ended last Sunday. Where were you all, as this show was sold out in Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre and also went onto play at the Edinburgh International...
By Paddy McCarthy I was Out&About again in New York City last week, and you know what, things are picking up and it’s nice to be meet up with a few people I haven’t met for a very long time....
By Paddy McCarthy I was at Pier Sixty last Friday evening for the 12th Annual Change-Makers Ball in aid of Self-Help Africa that had big support with a capacity audience. It was the who’s who from the business sector that...
By Paddy McCarthy This week’s Out&About is dedicated to a gentleman who deserves to be sitting at the right hand side of the man himself, Our Lord God and probably is by now. I am so saddened on the passing...
By Paddy McCarthy I have to start my Out&About on a very good note and that is about one of the biggest hubs in North America that is here in New York, Penn Station. I have been a critic for...
By Paddy McCarthy As we are now officially in autumn after a very nice summer, we can manage it I’m sure. You can look forward to lots of special days starting with Halloween, then Thanksgiving Day and of course Christmas;...