My City Irish Hub

The event is also a significant fundraiser. Lowe-Chapman said proceeds support St. Malachi’s food ministries, including weekday meal service, the long-running Monday Night Meal, and Saturday morning breakfast. The race also helps fund rent and utility assistance and supports a YMCA youth diversity partnership, “We Run the City,” which brought 100 children into this year’s race at a reduced cost.

Galway is adventure. Sometimes that adventure no more than getting lost in the alleys and getting really wet, but it’s there.

awarded each year to a man and a woman who do not seek the limelight but are always there willing and able to help in any way possible with their community. Mary Anne DeGrandis Baucco is an inaugural honoree.

Now about that road. Like so many Irish roads, it is three miles of narrow, twisty, brambly anarchy. It is organic, a former cow path. You know Irish roads, stone walls, munching cows and bleating sheep, the usual suspects.But at the top of the road, a tombstone monument stands as a gut punch reminder of a not-so-distant history.

I don’t think I’ll ever forget that first one. It was the year it hit 80 degrees, and we rolled in two party buses strong: one for the “adults” and one for the “kids.” We kicked things off at