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2019 2019 Saint Patrick’s Parade Scholarships Boy, Aged 7, Died After
Being Struck By Truck
4th, Awardees Announced C
September Thas announced the Mary Pat Kelly President of individuals who are interest- President & Founding
he New York City St.
Patrick’s Day Parade
IAW&A for affording this
ed in their Irish heritage and
opportunity to the awardees
hopefully, they will step up
Publisher
winners of the 2019 College so they will have an oppor- to be the future leaders of Paddy McCarthy
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meet
and High School level tunity to writers world this great parade. of the A seven-year-old boy has died Editor
EXAMINER College contest are: First artists. Parade’s Board of Directors, after being struck by a truck in Associate Publisher
renowned
“On
behalf
research scholarship contest.
and
Grahame Curtis
The awardees in the
I wish to express our appre-
“I would also like to
Dublin.
Marc-Yves Tumin
Place – Shane Slattery,
thank our expert panel of
ciation to the Affiliated
The collision occurred at St.
IRISH Second Place- Meghan judges who gave of their Organizations who got the Joseph's Way, Ballymun, shortly News Editor
David Carter
time to review the research
Bevan, and Third Place –
word out concerning the
after 4.30pm on Sunday afternoon.
Gavin Cogan.
scholarships, and to all the
papers and especially thank
The child was rushed to Temple
The awardees in the High all of the applicants for their parents, aunts, uncles, Street Children’s University Arts & Entertainment Editor
Brad Balfour
School contest are: First submissions.” grandparents, faculty mem- Hospital in a serious condition, Sales Director
Place – Fionn Kenny, “I would like to wish all bers at the schools and col- where he passed away in the John O’Rourke
Second Place – Norah winners the very best in leges who encourage stu- evening.
O’Brien, and Third Place – their studies and future dents to submit research The driver of the truck, a 30- Classified Advertising
John O’Rourke
Angela Fee. endeavors,” said Sean Lane, papers. We do plan to year-old man, was taken to The
“We commend all the Chairman of the St. Patrick’s expand the Parade scholar- Mater Misericordiae University Art Director
applicants for their submis- Day Parade Board of ship program in the future.” Hospital with non-life-threatening Heidi Gross Kelley
sions and compliment them Directors. The Parade scholarship injuries. C Contributors
for the extremely high level “The scholarship pro- program is funded by the St. Joe Murphy, Joe Kavanagh, C.S.
O’Brien, Mike Fitzpatrick, Seamus
of academic excellence,” said gram is extremely important Patrick’s Day Foundation Three Arrested After Seizure Kelleher, Bert Randolph Sugar, John
Catherine Tully Muscente to us as it engages young and again this year, the Of Drugs Worth €1m Mooney, Neil McDaid, Aine Fox, Sean
McCarthy, Mike Bowen, Marc-Yves
Co-Chair of the program. Foundation is funding nine Drugs worth €1m have been Tumin, Jack McGrath, Charley Brady,
“We were very happy scholarships, the traditional seized after searches were carried Patrick Hurley, Catherine Wylie, Alicia
this year to add to the schol- six Parade scholarships for out in Dublin and Meath. Colon, Jason Gallagher, Jackie Cahill, Bill
Daly, Jim McKeon
arship program an opportu- affiliated organizations and 7kg of heroin was found and
nity for awardees to read three additional scholarships three men in their 40s and 50s Contributing Photographers
their essays at a salon hosted in Timothy Cardinal Dolan’s were arrested. Leo Doyle, Danny McCabe, Roger
Wong
by the Irish American name for Irish American The joint operation was carried
Writers and Artists children attending Catholic out on Sunday morning by the Circulation
John Philip, Manager
(IAW&A). schools that march annually Garda National Drugs and North East - Paul Hamrock
“I would like to thank in the parade. C Organized Crime Bureau and the West Coast - Jim Clement
UK National Crime Agency. Historian
O’Dwyer & Bernstien, LLP nationally and internationally. Events Consultant
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