February 17, 2011
By Staff Reporter
Ahern is the main speaker at the Long Island university’s Joseph F. Maher Leadership Forum, an event that will serve as the curtain raiser for the new Irish Studies Institute at Molloy, which has its campus in Rockville Centre.
Ahern was scheduled to speak on November 14 but a bizarre and tragic combination of events resulted in the forum being moved to this week.
There was, most critically, the murder of a Molloy alumnus, Leah Walsh. There was also a bomb hoax on campus and although Bertie Ahern would likely be unfazed by such a thing his transatlantic journey was put off as a result of his breaking a leg in a fall down the stairs at his Dublin home.
Ahern is back on both feet now and will this Friday morning deliver an address as part of the Maher forum. His speech will be entitled “Peace Through Inclusive Dialogue: Ireland’s Journey.”
“It’s a go,” Fr. Patrick Bonner, director of Molloy’s Irish Studies Institute, told the Echo.
Ahern’s speech will be followed by a panel discussion, sponsored by the Brehon Law Society and featuring Reps. Peter King and Joe Crowley as well as Sinn F