The Irish Voice By Tom Deignan How often are you going to get the likes of Donald Trump, TV talkmeisters Bill O’Reilly and Tina Brown, and a gaggle of opinionated writerly types in the same room and have them all set their egos aside. That very thing happened on St. Patrick’s evening at Michael’s on West 55th Street. That was when the long-anticipated Kelly Gang fundraiser for journalist and editor, Michael Kelly, who died while covering the war in Iraq, was held. Kelly’s wif
NY Post By Keith J. Kelly The late Michael Kelly is still bringing people together nearly a year after he became the first American journalist to die in the Iraq war. It’s not often that New York Post Publisher Lachlan Murdoch and New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. see eye to eye – but both are corporate backers of tonight’s Kelly Gang gathering at Michael’s restaurant honoring former Atlantic Monthly editor and syndicated columnist Michael Kelly. He would have tu
SIDEWALKS In Irish Abroad By Tom Deignan In America, there’s something so special about being born on the Fourth of July that famed jazzman Louis Armstrong is among the famous folk who is said to have lied about joining us that patriotic day. Esteemed editor and journalist Mike Kelly, who died in April while covering the war in Iraq , probably would have loved to have been born on July 4. But with a name like Mike Kelly, being born on March 17 seemed appropriate as well. This
