Former city publican for community award in Chicago

A FORMER city publican has been nominated for an award for his outstanding work in his adopted community in Chicago.Billy Lawless emigrated to the United States ten years ago and in that time has developed a successful pub business as well as getting involved with community work.He took a great interest in how Irish emigrants fared in the States and is currently chair of the Chicago Celts for Immigration Reform, which campaigns for the regularisation of the undocumented Irish abroad.Mr. Lawless from Circular Road and who used to own The Tribesman Bar in Shop Street (now Taaffes) and Trigger Martyns (now Tí Cholí) in Mainguard Street now runs two pubs in Chicago — The Irish Oak in the northern part of the city and The Sage on Michigan Avenue in The Loop which is Downtown. In the past decade he has also become very involved with the Vintners Association in Chicago and has become almost a “must see” himself for Galway people visiting the mid-West American city.Mr. Lawless was just back from Washington when he ...............