Where and when did Josephine Bracken arrive from Ireland to the Philippines? How did fate bring them together? They have two grown-up children, Patrick and Noriana. Now retired, she lives with her husband Jim in Lucan, Co. She also co-founded the Lucan Gardening Club. Mary’s Church in the parish of Lucan, serving as a member of the Parish Pastoral Council, the Bereavement group, Minister of the Word, Baptismal Group, and Justice and Peace group. At the height of the Celtic Tiger years, she edited The Filipino Forum (2004–2012) and wrote a column for Metro Eireann (2006– 2010), the only multicultural newspaper in Ireland. Arriving in Ireland in 1977 with her husband Jim, she became a contributing feature writer for the Woman’s Way magazine, a Smurfit publication in Dublin. Vising went to edit The Echo, the house organ of the Sisters of St. Sadly, the newspaper was shut down by the government shortly after President Marcos declared Martial Law. She worked with The Manila Chronicle for three years, first as a provincial correspondent and staff member of the provincial section, before being appointed staff writer for the publication’s Saturday Weekly Magazine in 1967. Vising is a journalism graduate from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines. She is co-founder of the first Filipino-Irish Association in Ireland (1980) which she chaired five times in its lifetime of twenty years. Taken from: “From the Philippines to Ireland: A Voyage of Discovery” by Vising Benevidez- Kennedy published in May 2017Ībout the Author:Vising Benavidez-Kennedy has been living in Ireland for the last 38 years.
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