CenterPieceNY

Updated: 29 Jun 2023 • 33 episodes
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(For the best experience of this podcast, visit: https://www.CenterPieceNY.com) New York Irish Stories: the lives of long-standing members of New York's Irish community, in their own words. And for a small country like Ireland - such a diversity of accents! Stay in touch @CenterPieceNY - we'd love to hear from you! Be sure to Subscribe, Rate and Review ! Episode schedule: one published per month, towards month end. Creator/Producer/Presenter: Paul Finnegan @paul_NY . Logo by @muireannlalor

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Linda Bonnar is a successful life coach and entrepreneur.  She"s also a former educator, and has built her services around both her experiences in the teaching profession, and her teenager years with mental health struggles in her hometown of Ballinasloe in County Galway in Ireland.  During those fragile, formative yea

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Paul Finnegan & Jennifer Muldowney 29 May 2023 • EN

S3E9: Jennifer Muldowney, a Heart Grows Bigger

Jennifer Muldowney, from Dublin’s fair city, in Ireland, is an author, a podcaster, and a member of that exclusive set of people who has given a TED Talk. But for this vivacious young woman, all these glamorous activities are in support of her unique, creative, small-ish, and growing business, which, not to put too fin

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When it comes to experiences, life is an embarrassment of riches.  Even more so, if you"re an adventurous, wandering type, which might be another way of saying "if you"re Irish". Certainly Denis Maguire is, although he has gone about it in his own quiet way.   As a thoughtful playwright, flimmaker and artist, boisterou

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Paul Finnegan & Corina Galvin 28 Mar 2023 • EN

S3E7: Corina Galvin, Quiet Influencing

Corina Galvin calls County Mayo in Ireland her home.   She"s also been a New Yorker for almost three decades.  And she has accumulated a lot of frequent flyer miles along the way.  That"s because her job in event planning and management puts her constantly up in the air, traveling all over the globe, meeting some signi

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Paul Finnegan & Jane McCooey 28 Feb 2023 • EN

S3E6: Jane McCooey and her Band of Sisters.

Jane McCooey thrives when she’s bringing people together to solve a problem, to the benefit of all. When Jane, from County Armagh in Ireland,  is confronted with obstacles, she’s not afraid to reach out for help, and her first port of call is often to tap into the familiar power of sisterhood.  Before you know it, she’

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Paul Finnegan & Niall O'Leary 31 Jan 2023 • EN

S3E5: Niall O'Leary–A Life By, And Of, Design.

Niall O"Leary is best known as a performer of Irish dance in the New York area, and further afield.  A lesser known fact about Niall is that he also has his own Manhattan-based architecture practice. The amazing thing about Niall is how he has managed to satisfy his innate need to create and design in these two very di

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