CURRENT ISSUE:  OCTOBER 2023

The Fitness Doctor: Why You Just Can’t Seem to Lose Weight

Does this sound familiar? It’s the new year, and you say to yourself, “this is the year I am going to get in shape!” You spend weeks sticking to your diet, eating salads every day for dinner.
You make an effort to exercise as much as possible. You make sacrifices, like

Akron Irish: Gone to the Dogs

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When Did Dogs Become Domesticated? At what point did this happen for dogs? Primitive man was thinking way more about food and making

Akron Irish: Haunted

By Lisa O’Rourke Shane MacGowan has left us after a long illness. In his case, long illness means that he spent over half of his adult life, with “a year, […]

West Side Irish American Club Fall 25 Tournament Champions

West Side Irish American Club Fall 25 Tournament Champions

Congratulations to Pat Goggin and Mike McGuire, the WSIA Fall 25 Tournament Champions! Two teams tied for 2nd place: Pat Leneghan and Mike Holian; Fiona Chambers and Maureen Carr, who survived an initial playoff with Sister Maureen Burke and Judy Bartel.

What’s the Craic? December Shenanigans!

By John O’Brien, Jr. Brooklyn – Hooley Pub & Kitchen1st – Disco Inferno, 2nd– Big 10 Championship Game, 8th – Blue Evolution, 9th – Faction, 15th – Billy Likes Soda, 16th -Billy […]