By Paddy McCarthy I hope you all had a nice Saint Valentine’s Day, and I hope you all got your cards, flowers, champagne and probably a nice dinner? Oh how romantic, those were the days, ha ha! I am just...
By Paddy McCarthy It’s happening! Yes, I do mean that the festivities have already started leading up to the big day that of course is Saint Patrick’s Day on Friday March 17th. But, before we get there we have one...
By Paddy McCarthy Now that they’ve nearly got Penn Station fully up and running, the new construction is looking beautiful, I might tell yea. This is one of the greatest cities in North America and it should always be a...
By Paddy McCarthy I got a call from the man himself, yes that’s Steve Duggan, Steve is the owner of Paddy Reilly’s Pub, a place I’ve frequented many a time, that is located at Second Avenue and 29th Street. Steve is...
By Paddy McCarthy What a turn out there was for the Grand Council of Emeralds’ 2023 Irishman of the Year Patrick Lynch, as there must have been at least 500 guests at the dinner last Wednesday. Yes, of course I...
By Paddy McCarthy It’s the time to plan now for 2023 as there will be a lot going on with all the County dinners that will be happening across the Tri-State and all over the USA that are times to...
By Paddy McCarthy I am sure that everybody really enjoyed the Times Square New Year’s Ball drop that was seen by millions of people around the world. The attendance in Times Square was well over a million and the weather...
By Paddy McCarthy I am so sure that everyone had a nice Christmas as much as I did. But I will tell yea that I did not forget the poor and the homeless that are both here in America and...
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...