The restful summer hiatus has come to an end and Season Two is underway. We're back with a pre-season friendly chat (released Thursday September 23rd).  Host Paul Finnegan takes on premier league comedian (and blood relative!), the mighty Colm…

Eyre Square, Galway City. [Photo by John Herbert] The Irish Echo, the most widely read Irish American source of news in the United States, penned an article about our podcast, skillfully written by journalist Peter McDermott.  You can ch…

So, this Thursday July 22nd at 6PM a few us New York Irish podcasters are getting together for a pow wow. We are meeting up at St. Patrick's pub on W46th 'tween 5th and 6th Avenues–further info about the venue can be seen here.  It's a ve…

by Maddison Rhoa.   Maddison with Oscar Wilde in the city center... I’ve always thought of Galway as a city of contradictions – one must only take a stroll down its famous Shop Street to see that. It’s simultaneously a di…

It's always been my intention to make the telling of this epic story, and the story of one of its main protagonists in particular, the centerpiece of an episode of this podcast, and now, in the merry month of May, in episode 9, season 1, it has come…

We've 'dropped' our latest episode today, Thursday April 29th.  I put little single-quote thingies around the present participle of the verb 'to drop' to hint, as Elaine from Seinfeld might do, that for some strange reason I am not comfortab…

This is the place where you can slide further down the tracks of the long and winding mind of CenterPieceNY. The posts are written by myself, Paul Finnegan, the person behind this podcast. I will be referring to my posts as blogsleds from here on.…