Blasket Island's oldest surviving inhabitant celebrates milestone birthday in USMáiréad Kearney Shea celebrated her 102nd birthday as the oldest living inhabitant of Great Blasket Island.
Malachy McCourt, Actor, Memoirist and Gadabout, Dies at 92Malachy McCourt, a professional Irishman, passed away at 92 in Manhattan.He left school in Ireland at 13 to reunite with his brother in New York, escaping a poverty-stricken childhood.