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Irish Daily Mirror
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Roy Keane's wife 'wasn't too pleased' after Manchester United legend's admission
Roy Keane rarely mentions his wife Theresa in public, but has admitted she is his 'rock in life', with the pair having been together for over 30 years. They have five children together - Shannon, Caragh, Aidan, Leah and Alanna. The couple met all the way back in 1992 while Keane was playing for Nottingham Forest, and they later tied the knot at the Church of Our Lady Crowned in his native town of Mayfield, Co. Cork in 1997. Previously opened up about Theresa during an interview with David Walsh for the Sunday Times in the early 2000s, Keane said: "I don't really mention her in public, but in fairness to her, she has been a rock in my life. Just brilliant. She reads me better than I read myself. "I wouldn't say Theresa likes every part of the package. She knows I haven't got a halo over my head. Actually, that's what she likes about me. She also knows I am not the nastiest person in the world." However, Keane did previously reveal that Theresa 'wasn't too pleased' about a comment he made when she asked him about his tattoo choice. The former Republic of Ireland captain was quoted as saying: 'I've got my kids (tattooed) on my right arm: Shannon, Caragh, Aidan and Leah… The wife did ask me why didn't I get hers and I said 'they'll always be my kids but you won't necessarily always be my wife,' which she wasn't too pleased about.' Keane also previously told how his first date with Theresa did not go well at all, stating that it went "very badly". He told RTE's Tommy Tiernan Show: "We probably only had one really proper date which wasn't good, really." Host Tommy questioned, saying: "You mean it didn't go well? "It went very badly," admitted Keane. "We met, I picked her up, and I'd met her [before] when I had a few drinks so the chat was slightly different. "We went for a spin and I said, 'Do you fancy going to the pictures?' Because at least at the pictures you can just watch the movie, you don't have to chat too much. "And she said 'No, I went last night with my friends'. "So I said, 'Do you want to go for a drink?' She said 'No'. "I literally drove back to the car, this is all within 10 or 15 minutes. She said, 'What are you doing?' "I said, 'Well, you don't want to go for a drink, you don't want to go to the pictures, what else can we do?' "She got out [of the car] and I said, 'Might see you next week' and she said 'I don't think so' and slammed the door. That was my first date." The 53-year-old then left the members of the audience in fits of laughter as he finished the story, saying: "And we're still married." In his memoir, Keane revealed that despite his illustrious football career, his true joy lies in spending quality time with his loved ones. Reflecting on Manchester United's 1999 Champions League win, he confessed that he yearned to return home to his wife Theresa and their children. The former Sunderland boss humorously recalled how he had envisioned a post-retirement life filled with family outings and bonding, much like the fictional Walton family. However, his family had other plans, and after a mere two months, they encouraged him to return to work. Keane shared: "My plan when I first stopped was, we're going to go on some family trips, we're going to be like the Waltons. "We're all going to spend time together, go walk in the park, and after a month or two, they didn't have the same plan as me, so I think they were kind of missing me going to work. "I got offered the job at Sunderland, and I was away on a family holiday and my family were looking at me... not saying it directly but going we kind of enjoy your company but not too much of it so when the job came back up they were saying you should go for it."
The Irish Sun
27-05-2025
- Automotive
- The Irish Sun
Funeral details confirmed for ‘truly cherished' Meath grandmother killed in weekend crash as tributes pour in
THE funeral details have been confirmed for a 'cherished' mum and grandmother who passed away in a collision over the weekend. Theresa Morgan died after she was Advertisement The incident occurred on the Now, her devastated Taking to the family wrote: "We are saddened to announce the passing of Theresa, who died tragically following an accident. "May Theresa Rest In Peace". Advertisement READ MORE IN IRISH NEWS She is predeceased by her parents Tom and Elizabeth. Theresa is survived by her daughter Denise, sons Tony and David, their father Noel and her partner Pat. She will also be missed by her son in law Martin, daughter in law Jennifer and her grandchildren Jack, Rose, Emily and Penny. She will also be missed by her siblings Jimmy, David, Martin, Michael, Dessie, Aidan, Brendan, Tommy, Stephen Janet and Alicia, her brothers in law, sisters in law, nieces, nephews, relatives and wide circle of friends. Advertisement Most read in Irish News Exclusive Theresa also leaves behind her beloved dog Milo. The much loved woman will repose at her son Tony's house on Thursday May 29 from 4pm until 8pm. Gardai and RSA measures aimed at driving crash deaths on Irish roads The removal will then take place on Friday morning to The Church Of The Immaculate Conception Ashbourne, arriving for 11am Mass. She will then be buried afterwards in St. Declan's Cemetery. Advertisement The mass will be livestreamed Moving tributes have poured in for Theresa ahead of her funeral mass later this week. One person said: "So sorry to learn of Theresa's passing. Condolences to Denise and all the family. "She's a great loss to them and the community. May she rest in the eternal peace of heaven." Advertisement Another person added: "A lovely kind lady who will be so missed." 'SOMEONE YOU COULD RELY ON' A friend added: "Feeling blessed to have had Theresa in our lives for so long. We have always shared lots of laughs and have had some lovely memories down through the years. "Theresa was a kind and warm lady who always spoke lovingly about her children and grandchildren." In a resounding tribute another dear friend of the beloved mother and grandmother said they were "blessed" to have known her. Advertisement They said: "Trasna (lovingly known by our family) was truly cherished. "Her unconditional love & kindness towards us all will always be remembered. "We were blessed to have her in our lives. Someone everyone could rely on and nothing was ever a hassle. We Love you Trasna." Another person simply added: "Such a tragedy." Advertisement 1 Theresa Morgan died in after she was struck by a car over the weekend Credit:
Boston Globe
26-05-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
81 years after he died in World War II, a young aviator comes home
Kelly was 21. His mother, Theresa, saved his letters, including one that arrived weeks after his death. When his mother, father, Thomas Sr., and sister, Betty, died, they were laid to rest by his stone. On Memorial Day, 81 years after he was killed off the coast of New Guinea, and two years after his remains were recovered from the underwater crash site, Kelly is to be buried beside his family in Livermore, California. Advertisement The burial is the culmination of a 12-year search by his relatives - launched on Memorial Day 2013 - that was joined by the Navy, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and the nonprofit partnership Project Recover. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'The thought of watching his casket go in where my mom and her parents are … it's going to be something,' Kelly's niece, Diane Christie, said. 'We're all going to be a big pile of mush.' 'For somebody that none of us knew,' she said. The wreckage was found in 2017 by a Project Recover team, which used the family's extensive research to zero in on the site. In 2023, elite Navy divers descended in a pressurized diving bell and over several weeks recovered Kelly's remains along with those of three other members of the B-24's 11-man crew. Advertisement The plane was in 225 feet of water, said Lt. Cmdr. Ted Kinney, the Navy's officer in charge. The men wore dive suits heated with hot water, and breathed air that was a mixture of oxygen and helium. He said he participated in one of the dives and found a piece of a human skull as he went through the wreckage. 'It was the first piece of osseous material that we discovered,' he said. 'So we knew we were on the right spot, and we knew that we were going to be able to find people and bring them home,' he said in telephone interview Tuesday. 'It was incredibly humbling,' he said. Kelly was the plane's bombardier. The divers recovered a ring that said 'bombardier' on it, and experts are certain it was Kelly's. Also recovered were his dog tags and the dog tags of two other crewmen. 'I'm just feeling a lot of gratitude right now,' said Scott Althaus, Kelly's first cousin once removed and a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He headed the family's quest to learn the details of Kelly's fate and did months of research on the project. 'I'm sure I will be flooded with emotions,' he said of the burial in a recent telephone interview. 'How can it be that our family is living what should be an impossible story? What made it possible was many people along the way stopping and remembering.' Another niece, Kathy Borst, said: 'I can't even begin to believe that it's truly happening.' 'Only four sets out of 11 of the remains were found,' she said in a recent telephone interview. 'What were the odds that we were going to be one of them?' Advertisement The project also produced 'hard moments,' she said. During a government briefing about the identification, one expert showed the family an image of a crack in Kelly's skull where his head had struck a part of the plane as it crashed. 'I start visualizing, 'Oh, this is what happened when my uncle died,'' she said. 'It was very, very, very painful.' 'I'm really glad my mom was not alive' she said. (Borst's mother was Kelly's sister.) 'I don't think that would have made this a worthwhile thing for her.' Now they can rest together, she said: 'They couldn't be reconnected ever in life, but they could be lying in the same ground.' Kelly's remains arrived Friday at the San Jose Mineta International Airport from the DPAA's laboratory in Hawaii, where they were officially identified via DNA in November. The plane was greeted by relatives, an honor guard and a water salute from airport fire equipment. He is to be buried in St. Michael's cemetery in Livermore, about 40 miles east of San Francisco, after a religious service at St. Michael's Catholic Church. It's the same church where a requiem Mass was said for him after he was declared dead in 1944, according to his family and an old newspaper report. Kelly's B-24 was nicknamed 'Heaven Can Wait.' (The name probably came from the title of a 1943 movie starring the actor Don Ameche.) Painted on the nose was a racy image of a woman with angel's wings. On March 11, 1944, the plane was shot down during a bombing mission off the north coast of the island of New Guinea, just north of Australia. Advertisement A crewman on another plane saw 'Heaven Can Wait' catch fire. Three men jumped or fell out. The tail section broke off. The bomber plunged into water and sank near a remote bay off the Bismarck Sea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. There were no survivors. The 11 men on board were declared killed in action, and their bodies were ruled unrecoverable. Four months earlier, Kelly and three of his buddies had attended a Thanksgiving dinner for 23 people at his parents' home on South L Street in Livermore. On a lighthearted guest register the four signed in as crewmen on a 'Big Ass Bird.' After that Thanksgiving, Kelly's family never saw him again, his relatives said. But two weeks after his death, they got a letter addressed 'Dearest Mom, Dad & Betty.' He had written it two days before his final mission. He talked about sleeping late, getting cigarettes and ice cream, and watching movies at his base. There was no word about combat. 'Give my love to everyone & please be happy & take care of yourselves,' he wrote. 'All my love always, your loving son, Tom.' Kelly's two nieces and nephew, Tom Borst, said they knew little about him while growing up. Christie said they knew only that he hadn't come home from the war. She knew that their mother, his sister, hated the song 'I'll be home for Christmas,' because Kelly had hoped to be home by Christmas 1944. When they visited their grandparents' house, 'we'd go into his bedroom,' she said. 'It was a little bit of a shrine. And we all remember it … I can see it vividly. It was always a little bit dark.' Advertisement Kathy Borst said she remembered visiting the cemetery 'most Memorial Days of my childhood.' She said she was too young to know why. In one of his final letters home, Kelly told his family: 'I don't want you to feel sorry for me. I'm just telling you to appreciate what you have. … The men fighting here for everyone, they're doing it for your freedom.'
Epoch Times
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Epoch Times
Orange County Honors Veterans, Names Citizen of the Month for May
Commentary As we approach Memorial Day weekend, I encourage everyone to join me in taking the time to honor the brave men and women who have served our nation. Although this holiday marks the unofficial start of summer, there are also many parades, flag ceremonies, and other events that memorialize the true meaning of this weekend. Please plan to attend one of these with your families before taking advantage of the variety of events and activities happening around the county. Let's come together to commemorate our heroes and make lasting memories with our loved ones. Whether you're planning to attend a local parade, enjoy a family picnic, or explore our beautiful parks or historic sites, there's something going on in our great county for everyone to enjoy. For a comprehensive list of events and family-friendly activities, be sure to visit I want to highlight some of the incredible individuals and efforts that make Orange County such a special place, starting with our Citizen of the Month. As county executive, I am proud to recognize Theresa Canfield of Montgomery as our Orange County Citizen of the Month for May. A dedicated teacher at Warwick's Park Avenue Elementary School, Theresa is also a tireless advocate for our veterans. From leading fundraising efforts for Wreaths Across America to organizing a heartfelt Veterans Day ceremony, Theresa is truly making a difference. She inspires her students to honor our heroes and give back to their communities, and for that, we are grateful. Congratulations, Theresa, you are so deserving of this recognition! Continuing with our commitment to honoring veterans, I'm excited to share that the latest episode of NeuCAST is now live, featuring Hudson Valley Honor Flight. In this moving episode, I sit down with Executive Director Jennifer DeFrancesco to explore how the organization ensures our local heroes receive the recognition they deserve through unforgettable trips to visit the War Monuments and Memorials in Washington. It's an emotional and inspiring conversation about service, sacrifice, and gratitude. Don't miss it! Please watch and share it to help spread awareness for this incredible mission. Learn more at This past week, I attended the New York State Police Troop F Memorial Day Service, where we honored troopers who made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. These fallen heroes and the families they have left behind deserve our lasting respect and remembrance. Their courage and unwavering commitment to protecting our communities will never be forgotten. I was fortunate to take part in the All-American Striped Bass Tournament for Hope in Newburgh. This outstanding event raised an incredible $350,000 for veterans, with 92 cents of every dollar going directly toward supporting their needs. Veterans were paired with boat owners and fishing captains for a day of camaraderie and competition. A special thanks to my friend Dan Depew for the invite, and to supporters, including the cast of the TV series 'SEAL Team': Judd Lormand, A.J. Buckley, and Tyler Grey, who is a decorated veteran himself. It was a powerful experience to meet and speak with so many veterans from around the Hudson Valley, many of whom were severely wounded in combat. My heartfelt thanks to all who made this day possible, including local supporters like Billy Joe's Ribworks, Riverfront Marina, and Mobile Cigar Vendors. Back on land, we're also making exciting progress in public works. In the Town of Mount Hope, our Bridge Project reached a major milestone this week with the installation of 200-foot-long steel girders at the CR18 bridge site. This effort represents a fantastic collaboration between our steel workers, crane operators, and Metro-North Railroad. Next up: preparing for the concrete bridge deck. Stay tuned for more updates as we push forward with improving our county's infrastructure. Finally, be sure to take advantage of the annual Plant Sale at the Orange County Arboretum! Whether you're a seasoned green thumb or just discovering the joy of gardening, it's a great way to add a splash of color to your home or garden this season. For dates and hours, visit I look forward to seeing you around the county!
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
May 25: Theresa's Memorial Day celebration
Theresa's 47th annual Memorial Day celebration will be held on Sunday, May 25, at 11 a.m. There will be a Chicken BBQ at 11 a.m., a memorial service at 1 p.m., a parade at 3 p.m., and a craft fair and car show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
