The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick will be hosting their 19th annual Golf Tournament on Monday, July 29, 2024 at the Country Club of New Bedford. All the proceeds from our golf tournament are used to support the charitable endeavors and mission of The Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of New Bedford. This includes, but is not limited to, distributing approximately $20,000 in scholarships to local area high school and college students each year. ...read more

New Bedford, Massachusetts – A delegation of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick will join with Mayor Jon Mitchell and other elected officials for a flag raising ceremony at City Hall on Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 9:00 A.M. The St. Patrick’s Day flag raising is in recognition of the many achievements, contributions, and successes of Irish Americans. ...read more

AFTER 62 seasons of powerful sporting commentaries full of legendary wit and intelligence, Micheal O Muircheartaigh has announced that this Sunday’s All-Ireland Football Final will be his last. A national institution described as “one part commentator, two parts seanachai”, whose voice is synonymous with the Irish summer, Micheal said: “There is only a while in everything” and that he wants to go while he still enjoys it. He will, however, continue to contribute to RTE Radio on a regular basis and will be in the commentary box for the international rules series with Australia in October. ...read more

The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is the premier “knockout” competition in the game of Gaelic football played in Ireland. The series of games are organized by the Gaelic Athletic Association  and are played during the summer months with the All-Ireland Football Final being played on the third or fourth Sunday in September in Croke Park, Dublin. The prize for the winning team is the Sam Maguire Cup.  Every county in Ireland participates in the Championship (except Kilkenny) so the competition is much more open than the Hurling Championship. Kerry and Dublin are among the most successful football teams. Kerry defeated Cork in the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final. ...read more

An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen TD, has launched a new education initiative supported by Enterprise Ireland to bring the sons and daughters of Irish emigrants all over the world to study in Ireland. The Ireland Homecoming Study Programme (IHSP) aims to encourage the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Irish nationals, and non-resident passport holders living outside the European Union, to return to Ireland for their higher education studies. According to the Emigrant Advice Network (EAN) there are over 3.1 million non-resident Irish passport holders. ...read more

Derry’s Bogside Artists have just returned from Shenzhen in China where they painted a special mural for the Dafen Museum. Artists from all over the world were invited to Shenzhen to painting murals on the walls of the museum situated in Dafen Village, a place given over entirely to the art of painting and the only place of its kind in the world. Representing Ireland at the event, the Bogside Artists created a mural depicting the transition of old China to a new modern China. The piece won the praise of organizers, fellow artists and public alike and the trio have already been invited to return to Shenzhen in the future. ...read more