Flying Stories Three – It’s amazing who you meet…
For three years in the early 80s I was on the Board of a New Zealand public company, based in Canterbury, that had operations in Australia. I had to go there every quarter. I tried every which way to try to make the journey manageable. On this occasion my chosen route was London to Anchorage […]
Mr Mike…Michael O’Donoghue of Saturday Nite Live fame available on streaming
Just saw a movie portraying my favorite O’Donoghue; Mr. Mike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O%27Donoghue Dennis Perrin’s biography Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O’Donoghue was published in 1998 by Avon Books. The Barnes and Noble overview read, “This is the unvarnished story of a towering figure in American popular culture, the prime artistic force behind an entire generation […]
Tell me about the surname variations in your family – a wonderful case from Monaghan
Tell me about the surname variations in your family – a wonderful case from Monaghan There are many different spellings of the name in historic records and in current use. Since I started my research programme over 875 variants have been found see Name variants – Odonoghue . In most cases one expects that today’s variant […]
Montana Bill Would Jail Priests For 5 Years if They Refuse to Violate Seal of Confession. Bill Donohue, President of Catholic League rejects this Bill
https://www.infowars.com/posts/montana-bill-would-jail-priests-for-5-years-if-they-refuse-to-violate-seal-of-confession A pending bill in Montana threatens Catholic priests with five years in jail and thousands of dollars in fines unless they commit the excommunicable offense of violating the seal of confession. Senate Bill 139 would remove the mandatory reporter exemption for priests to report abuse. This would put priests in the position of either being […]
Flying Stories Two
I spent my working life bumming round the world in planes – you experience a lot in over 40 years I was flying up from Jakarta in Indonesia to Singapore on a Garuda Airlines plane – Garuda was not very well regarded at that time! The bloke in the seat next to me worked for […]
Flying Stories One – It was a dark and stormy night…
It was a dark and stormy night….. By Tim Donohue (Member 577 and retired airline pilot) of Chico, California, USA It was truly a dark and stormy night across the West Coast as I prepared for my final flight of the day, a San Francisco to Burbank journey. It was late, and we were hours […]
The O’Donoghue Society flying stories blog launched
Tim Donohue’s article in the January journal ‘It was a dark and stormy night…’ gave me the idea of a blog that we can all join in So Tim’s article is up on the Blog And I will post one to get us going
A secret room in Ross Castle?
An O’Connor friend of mine had read somewhere that Ross Castle had a secret room found in the 1930s. It had a mural of a figure kneeling with hands joined. Is this true? If so, was it the O’D or a priest? I asked Ross Castle branch of the Office of Public Works and a […]
The Day I Met Hillary Clinton and the Secret Service in Belfast
Contributed by Tom Donahoe Nearly 30 years ago, Hillary Clinton looked into my eyes as if no one else in the world existed but she and I, and personally thanked me for making her and the President’s trip to Belfast in Northern Ireland “… their finest and most memorable visit yet.” That was seconds before […]
Legendary TV talk show host Phil Donahue dies at 88
Aug. 19, 2024, 2:08 PM GMT+1 / Updated Aug. 19, 2024, 4:15 PM GMT+1 / Source: TODAY By Anna Kaplan and Elizabeth Maline Longtime TV talk show host Phil Donahue died on Sunday night following a long illness, his family said. He was 88. Donahue died at his home surrounded by his family, including his wife of 44 years, actor Marlo Thomas, his sister, […]