Charlie Bird meets Irish American journalist and author Niall O'Dowd. Niall is the co-founder of Irish America magazine as well as the founder of the Irish Voice Newspaper and Irishcentral.com and publishes Home and Away, a successful weekly freesheet.

at one point Niall was also named among New York’s most influential people by New York magazine . He was featured on the “People You Should Know” segment of the Paula Zahn Now program on CNN in 2007. In January 2008, he was appointed an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Author, Magician, Actor, TV Producer and creator of beloved childrens TV shows Bosco, Forty Coats and Wanderly Wagon Joe O’Donnell looks back on his rich and varied career and reads from some of his essays.

Bird Table presented by Niall Hatch & Conor O Hagen Ep1 by Senior Times

Radio DJ and Author Gareth O'Callaghan keeps an inspirational podcast diary of his life after his diagnosis of the rare disease Multiple System Atrophy.

Classic Collection Presenter John Low.. slows it all down for us with a wonderful selection of some of his favorite classics !

In association with Naxos.

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Radio DJ and Author Gareth O'Callaghan keeps an inspirational podcast diary of his life after his diagnosis of the rare disease Multiple System Atrophy.

Charlie Bird meets hotelier and philanthropist John Fitzpatrick the owner of the Fitzpatrick Hotel Group New York. John Fitzpatrick is one of the most down to earth people you could meet. When he walks into a room he instantly puts you at your ease. Perhaps it’s a talent that he has developed over the years from being in the hospitality industry. He is the president and CEO of Fitzpatrick Hotel Group, N.A., but there more to it than that. He is genuinely interested in people and though it’s his business to meet and greet, behind the scenes he is just as likely to be helping out someone or some group that needs a hand.

John was raised in the hotel business, the second eldest of five children of Paddy and Eithne Fitzpatrick who owned Killiney Castle Hotel in Co. Dublin, Silver Spring Cork and Fitzpatrick’s Shamrock Hotel in Bunratty, Co. Clare. John did not have his career handed to him . He began by cutting grass at Killiney Castle during the summers when he was a teenager. Eventually, he moved on to washing dishes in the hotel kitchen and from there onto washing glasses and, eventually, when he was 17, to mixing drinks behind the bar, working every weekend while he was still in school.

“Dad was always tough on us. He said, ‘if you want to have money you have to work for it,’” John recalled in an interview with Irish America. But even back then as a teenager, his favorite part of the job was meeting customers.

Radio DJ and Author Gareth O'Callaghan keeps an inspirational podcast diary of his life after his diagnosis of the rare disease Multiple System Atrophy.

Radio DJ and Author Gareth O'Callaghan keeps an inspirational podcast diary of his life after his diagnosis of the rare disease Multiple System Atrophy.

Presented by John Low in association with Naxos Music.

A feast of music from Bach, Dvorak, Elgar, Wagner, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Mahler, Verdi, Tchaikovsky and more!

A three-hour-plus feast of memorable melodies. Just dip in – you’ll find something you’ll love!!