February 17, 2011
By Staff Reporter
She was coming home from work and had just stepped off a bus on Comly Street when she was hit by the car and dragged along the street until the vehicle struck the wall of a house.
The driver of the car was also killed.
“This was an awful shock to everyone in the community,” said Tom Conaghan of the Philadelphia Irish Immigration and Pastoral Center.
A memorial Mass was being offered this week for Fitzgerald at St. William’s church in the city. Her remains are expected to be flown back to Ireland on Friday.
McALLISTER TO FIGHT ON
The U.S. government has asked for more time to consider its next move in the deportation case against Belfast man Malachy McAllister.
“We’re only too happy to agree with that,” said McAllister’s attorney, Eamonn Dornan.
Dornan said that the McAllister case would not likely be coming up for consideration again until the spring.
McAllister, a onetime INLA member, is attempting to stay in the U.S. with his four children, one of whom recently secured a green card through his U.S. citizen wife.
McAllister’s wife, Bernadette, died from cancer last May.
The death of Bernadette had made no difference in the government’s attitude to the case, McAllister said this week. “But I’m determined to fight on for the kids,” he said.
FOSF RAISED $600K
2004 was a good year for the Friends of Sinn Fein. The group raised in excess of $600,000 during the recent U.S. tour by Sinn F