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IRISH EXAMINER | October 23rd, 2019
Out & About

BByy PPaaddddyy MMccCCaarrtthhyy

I have just got back from a trip to Japan after
attending the Rugby World Cup in Tokyo. It was
a great pleasure to go as I went with one of the
most outstanding gentlemen in the Irish
Community, Garrett Doyle - owner of Tuttles
Bar and Grill on Second Avenue between 39th
and 40th Streets.
We traveled over to see Ireland play and hope-
fully win the World Cup, but that did not happen
as you will read in the report on our sports pages.
I am not here to criticize them in how they
played, I am here to say what a privilege it was to
be around the Irish fans that traveled there from
all over the world and especially from Ireland
itself.
The Bowen family Michael his sons Emmet
and Johnathan travelled from Australia and they
all write for The Irish Examiner USA so you can
imagine that when we all got together it was fun.
We attended the Ireland vs New Zealand game on
the Saturday and the Japan vs South African game
on Sunday that had packed crowds and a fabulous
atmosphere on both days. Billy McComiskey, Hayley Richardson, Donie United Irish Counties Association. Music wi;; be
We all went and toured the city of Tokyo and Carroll and more for an evening of world-class provided by the Tara Gold Band. Tickets are
let me tell yea it’s just beautiful and one of the entertainment. This event includes a food and $80.00 and reservations are strongly recommend-
cleanest cities I have ever been to in my life. The wine reception sponsored by John Browne of the ed.
Bowen family could not be more hospitable to us, Grandstand Bar in Elmhurst, Queens. John is a The Irish Rep has done it again with another
especially Emmet as he also teaches in Tokyo and longtime supporter of Donie and Mick’s work big show coming, namely Pumpgirl which will be
is a member of the Irish Network in Tokyo. I with Fr. Joe Maier at the Mercy Center in playing in the W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre.
have to say that they know the city well as Bangkok, Thailand. Written by Abbie Spallen, directed by Nicola
Michael the father does a lot of business in Japan. The Mercy Center in Bangkok was founded by Murphy, and starring Hamish Allan-Headley,
We were also in the company of two other Fr. Joe Maier who has been present in the lives of Labhaoise Magee, and Clare O’Malley Pumpgirl
Australians, Alan and Maree Sherratt who are the poor in Thailand and Laos since 1967 If you will run from November 7 through December 29,
friends of the Bowen family in Melbourne are unable to attend or would like to make a dona- 2019.
Australia. It was also a privilege to meet Jim tion, please contact Donie directly at The show begins in a gas station in Northern
Geraghty, the Heineken marketing guru here in ducksyc@earthlink.net. Ireland, barely north of the border, Pumpgirl gets
Japan. The American Irish Association of few customers beyond lecherous men and cruel
All I can say is it was on my bucket list and it Westchester’s 45th Anniversary Dinner Dance women who remark on her tomboyish appear-
was all I hoped it would be and more. Well some- will be held on Sunday, October 17 at The ance. Otherwise guarded, she has struck up a
body has to do it and if you ever get a chance to Fairways at Dunwoodie (1 Wasylenko Lane in friendship with “no helmet Hammy” – an ama-
go to Japan you should do it as they love us Irish. Yonkers). Their Irish Woman of the Year is teur stock-car racer who prefers to spend time
The Irish Center are hosting a charity event Dympna Tully of Tully Travel and the Irish Man with his unsavory buddies over his wife and chil-
on Saturday November 2 that should be well sup- of the Year is popular Yonkers photographer dren.
ported as it is for a great cause and is headed up by Kevin Fitzgerald. The Community Worker As Hammy’s wife, Sinead, stays home alone,
a very good friend of mine Donie Carroll, one of Award will be presented to Fr. Willem Klaver, she simmers with rage over her isolated, disap-
the best folk and ballad singers to have come out MHM Pastor, St. John the Evangelist Church in pointing existence. On Hammy’s birthday, their
of Ireland. The cocktail hour starts at 7 pm, so White Plains while the Irish American lives become perilously intertwined, leaving them
come and join Mick Moloney, Athena Tergis, Achievement Award will be awarded to the face-to-face with a desperate future.
The Irish Repertory Theatre is proud to pres-
ent this heart wrenching original story of rural life
Follow Us On... in Northern Ireland by Abbie Spallen, a multi-
award-winning Irish playwright making her Irish
Rep debut. Originally presented by the Bush
Theatre, Pumpgirl premiered in 2006 at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and made its New
York debut at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2007.
It won the 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the
irishexaminerusa Stewart Parker Trust Award, and was nominated
for the Irish Times Best New Play.
Buy Tickets by phone on (212) 727-2737 or
online at irishrep.org.
We just got to apologize for been a little late
irishexaminerus with my Out&About this week as I was in anoth-
er part of the world. See you all again next week
when I am Out&About once more.C