Posted by Jim on September 19, 2019
In memory of our friend Sean Ryan, who was killed tragically in 2017, the Brothers of AOH Division #19 are once again hosting the Sean Ryan Irish Fest to aid scholarships in Sean’s name at Xaverian High School and Iona College.
The event will be on Saturday November 30, 2019 7:00 PM till 10:00 PM at;
Columbus Council #126
Knights of Columbus
3051 Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11229
Corner of Quentin Road
Admission is $35 in advance or $40 at the door and includes beer, wine and soda. Tickets can be obtained by contacting one of the listed ticket providers on the poster.
This event is 21+. Music will be provided by the legendary McLean Avenue Band.
Poster is attached below. Please reach out to me for sponsorship opportunities.
Thanks You Very Much,
James McGlashin
718-877-0345
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The DUP has denied it will agree to checks in the Irish Sea
Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, September 18, 2019.
You’d wonder why anyone here takes seriously the nonsense DUP MPs spout every time they speak about Brexit on radio or TV.
It may be because, with the distinguished exception of local BBC’s Economics and Business Editor, John Campbell, most interviewers don’t have enough knowledge of the detail of borders, customs and so on, to avoid bursting out laughing when the likes of Jeffrey Donaldson or Sammy Wilson deliver another load of garbage.
It’s been going on now for over three years. Donaldson, self-appointed expert on imaginary technology at frontiers, repeatedly assured interviewers and listeners that trade would be ‘frictionless’. He gave the US-Canada border as an example. That proved to be untrue. He then gave the Norway-Sweden border as an example; also untrue. He could not name any device which would successfully monitor vehicles and their contents, let alone animals alive or dead crossing a border. Despite EU officials examining in vain every border that exists, Donaldson kept insisting with no evidence whatsoever that such technology does exist. It doesn’t.
His equally evidentially challenged colleague Spluttering Sammy, a man who looks as if he doesn’t know whether to be angry or indignant, regularly dumped similar garbage loads, though with more sound and fury signifying nothing. The truth is no one in the DUP understands the EU legal order. All they do is parrot the equally ignorant Conservative Brexiteers whom they revere. What suckers they are.
Tony Blair’s former chief of staff and general factotum, Jonathan Powell, who does understand the EU legal order, admirably summed up the trilemma in a letter to the Times last week. He wrote that, since the UK is leaving the Customs Union and the Single Market, and Johnson apparently favors a Canada-style trade deal, then, ‘there will have to be a Border somewhere. It can be between Northern Ireland and the Republic, between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, or between the island of Ireland and the rest of the EU.’
As Powell acknowledged, the Republic is staying in the EU’s Single Market and Customs Union, therefore, ‘to suggest that a common agricultural area for the island and some cobbled-together ideas about trusted trader schemes solves [the Border], is nonsense.’
On the other hand, as the Republic’s finance minister Pascal Donohoe said on Monday, the UK intends to abandon EU regulations to acquire trading advantages. In short, despite the mendacious spin emanating from Downing Street, the UK is miles from a resolution. Furthermore, even if Johnson proposed something workable, which he won’t, he couldn’t get it through Westminster because he has no majority for anything. In any case, Britain has not advanced any proposals on anything. There has been no progress at all as the aftermath of Monday’s lunch fiasco made clear.
The most depressing aspect of the performance of the DUP is not that they’re lying; they’re not. They unload garbage because they don’t know what they’re talking about. They have never uttered a single syllable on their own initiative. Instead, they took as gospel rubbish spewed out by men in the Conservative party who have no knowledge of the EU, but more importantly, couldn’t care less about anything or anyone on this island as the evidence of the referendum and Theresa May’s ‘red lines’ demonstrates conclusively. Rather than think for themselves, or for the benefit of people here, the DUP’s MPs buy all this garbage and then regurgitate it on the airwaves here. They are the Conservative party’s useful idiots, stooges.
Now belatedly poor Donaldson is being sent out to prepare the party faithful for a U-turn on regulatory divergence. Conceding it on agri-food, as he did on RTÉ, means conceding the principle of no divergence on anything. What’s the argument against divergence on alcohol, tobacco or pharmaceuticals? Why is he doing it? He knows that’s the direction of travel in Johnson’s cabinet. How far will the DUP go? Anywhere Johnson wants.END.
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ARMY WEST POINT SALUTE TO HEROES DAY
Army West Point Football welcomes 2019 Fun City Bowl Champions FDNY Bravest Football for Salute to Heroes Day on Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 12:00 PM, as they host the Morgan State Bears at Michie Stadium. Discounted tickets of $25 are available for all active and retired first responders. Contact Ryan Benson for more information at 845-446-2378 or ryan.benson@armyfrmc.com.
FIREFIGHTER MIKE O’HANLON MEMORIAL FUND GOLF OUTING
The 2nd Annual Firefighter Mike O’Hanlon Memorial Fund Golf Outing honoring and remembering FDNY Lt. John Moran will be held Monday, September 30, at Pelham/Split Rock Golf Course in the Bronx. Check in and lunch begins at 11:00 AM, shotgun start at 1:00 PM. Cost is $175 per golfer, and includes lunch, golf, cart, cocktail hour, dinner and libations, closest to the pin, raffles, special prizes and more! Cost is $75 for dinner only. Proceeds will go to FDNY Family Assistance Transport Foundation and The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Registration and Donations can be done online at mikeohanlonmemorialgolfouting.com. For questions, contact Terry Ecock at striper58@aol.com or call 914-672-1035, or Martin O’Hanlon at mohanlon89@gmail.com or Michael O’Hanlon at mohanlon3188@gmail.com.
150TH ANNIVERSARY – LADDER COMPANY 103
On Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 11:00 AM, the officers and members of Ladder Co. 103 will conduct a ceremony in quarters at 480 Sheffield Ave., Brooklyn, NY to commemorate their 150th Anniversary. All active and retired members and their families are invited to attend. Parking will be limited so please utilize mass transit options if available.
FDNY HISPANIC SOCIETY
The FDNY Hispanic Society Announces the 2019 Annual Dinner Dance, held on Friday, October 4, 2019, at Villa Barone Manor, 737 Throggs Neck Expressway, Bronx, NY. This event will have live entertainment, cocktail hour at 7:00 PM, sit down dinner at 8:00 PM, and valet parking. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.hispanicsocietyfdny.com.
FDNY EMERALD SOCIETY DINNER DANCE
The Emerald Society announces its 63rd Anniversary Dinner Dance honoring the 2019 Irishmen of the Year, DAC Christopher Boyle, Bronx Borough Commander, and Executive Director of the NYC Fire Pension Fund, Patrick Dunn. The Dinner Dance will be held Friday, November 1, 2019 at 7:30 PM, at the original Antun’s, 96-43 Springfield Blvd, Queens Village, NY 11429. Live music by Good Clean Fun. Tickets are $95 per person. For information, contact Dance Chairmen Artie Evans at 917-697-7875 or aevans33@verizon.net or Steve Rogers at 917-584-4569 or fdnysteverogers@gmail.com.
Posted by Jim on September 18, 2019
150TH ANNIVERSARY – LADDER COMPANY 104
On Friday, September 20, 2019 at 10:00 AM, the officers and members of Ladder Co. 104 will conduct a ceremony in quarters at 161 South 2nd Street, Brooklyn, NY, to commemorate their 150th Anniversary. All active, retired members and their families are invited to attend. Parking will be limited so please utilize mass transit options if available.
STEUBEN DAY PARADE
Permission is granted to off-duty members of the Department to participate in the annual Steuben Day Parade, scheduled for Saturday, September 21, 2019. Members participating shall attend in dress uniform. Assembly time is 1100 hours at East 67th Street and Madison Avenue, Manhattan. The Post Parade Collation is to follow at the St. Ignatius Loyola School Cafeteria, located at 84th Street between Park and Madison Avenues. For further information, visit www.fdnysteuben.org.
FIREHOUSE KITCHEN TALK: EFFECTS OF 9/11 ON EXPOSED CHILDREN & FDNY COMMUNITY
Join Friends of Firefighters on Wednesday, September 25, from 6:00-9:00 PM at their Red Hook HQ (199 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn) for a firefighter-prepared dinner followed by an informative presentation from Dr. Amsel, MD, on the effects of 9/11 on exposed children and the firefighter community in New York. Dr. Amsel is an FoF Board Member and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University. Free for active and retired FDNY members. No RSVP necessary. For more info, call 718-643-0980 or email info@friendsoffirefighters.org.
FLORIAN’S KNIGHTS MC NYC FIRE RUMBLE FOR RONALD TOY DRIVE AND FUNDRAISER
A Toy Drive and Fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House of the Hudson Valley and FDNY FF/USMC SSGT Chris Slutman Children’s Education Fund on October 12, 2019. Registration 9:30 – 10:45 AM, KSU 11:00 AM. Police Escorted Ride starts at Ronald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley, 80 Woods Road, Valhalla, NY 10595. Ride ends at Hudson Valley Harley Davidson, 33 Route 304, Nanuet, NY 10954. Donations: $20 per rider with unwrapped gift. $40 per rider with no toy. $10 per passenger. Auctions, raffles and live entertainment. After party from 12:00-4:30 open to all families and children are free. 18 and over $10. Toy donations in addition encouraged. Rain date 10/13. Check here for weather: www.floriansknights.com.
ICON PARKING FDNY DISCOUNT
Icon Parking would like to extend a 25% discount to FDNY Local 94 members for parking at any of their garages in New York. Icon has over 300 garages, making them the largest garage chain in New York. If interested, sign up at https://iconparkingsystems.com/icon/8 to receive the discount. Please email mesposito@iconparking.com if you have any questions.
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The major degree of our Order will be exemplified by the Richmond County Cu Chulainn Celtic Warriors Major Degree Team and hosted by New York County at the Archbishop Hughes Center, 32 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012 on Saturday, October 19 at 12 noon.
All major degree members are welcome to support those receiving their degree.
If you have not received your major degree, it is your obligation to do so. Candidates who have not received a major degree please plan to attend and get into contact with either County Board President Dennis Grogan at vze2nwrz@optimum.net or County Board Vice President Edward Meehan at 201-795-0316. Please inform your Division President as well.