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Ed Sheeran performs surprise show at Boston pub on St. Patrick’s Day
People celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at an Irish pub in Boston were in for the surprise of a lifetime when pop star Ed Sheeran came in and performed a concert.
Sheeran posted on social media Monday night, giving only a hint that the show would be happening. In his Instagram story, he posted a photo of himself in Boston and the caption “Meet me in the pub tonight.”
Ed Sheeran plays Boston pub
A short time later, Sheeran pulled up and headed into The Dubliner Irish Pub in the Government Center area of downtown Boston.
There was a packed house as Sheeran arrived wearing a Boston Celtics jersey.
Sheeran jumped on stage, playing some of his greatest hits with the crowd singing along.
“We were in The Dubliner early since this evening, enjoying the celebrations. We heard about a special event out the back so we managed to get our way out and the music was brilliant, the bands were class and then the next thing you know Ed Sheeran just appeared out of nowhere. It was class. It was brilliant,” Caan McGonagle said.
Ed Sheeran tour
Sheeran has gained worldwide fame for songs like “Shape of You,” “Perfect,” and “Thinking Out Loud.”
The pop-up concert was particularly exciting for local fans of Sheeran’s music, since he currently does not have any American tour dates scheduled. Sheeran’s tour resumes on April 26 with a festival performance in Abu Dhabi before he heads to Qatar and Bahrain, then to a stretch of European shows.
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Massachusetts State Police trooper ‘relieved of duty’ after drunken driving arrest in Boston
A State Police trooper who was allegedly found “slumped over” in his car at around 5 a.m. in the South End with an open container of High Noon vodka has been “relieved of duty.”
Mass State Police confirmed to the Herald Wednesday night that Trooper Donovan Preston, 31, arrested for alleged drunken driving in Boston this past weekend, “has been relieved of duty.” Preston’s base pay is listed as $80,213.
A Boston Police report states that police arrived at Herald Street on Saturday to see Preston “stopped in lane 2 of the road” with his brake lights on. The suspect was slumped over “with his eyes closed,” the report adds.
“The officer observed that the car was on and in drive. The officer observed an open container of alcohol (High Noon) in the cupholder,” according to the report. The BPD officer then knocked on the window “for approximately 10 seconds before the suspect lifted his head up.”
Once he picked his head up, police said he appeared “confused and he looked around. The suspect’s vehicle began to roll to which the officer announced, ‘Boston Police. Open the Door.’ ”
Preston stopped on the three-lane, outbound road with his black BMW in the middle of two lanes.
A State Police spokesman said in an email: “Trooper Donovan Preston was relieved of duty and will be subject to a department discipline process.” All other comments were directed toward the police report.
That report, provided to the Herald Wednesday night, added that State Police were notified after Preston’s arrest.
The can of High Noon was logged into the evidence book.
This latest OUI case comes as State Police Sgt. Scott Quigley is being investigated in an alleged drunken driving fatal crash in Woburn in 2023 that killed a disabled passenger in a van.
In the Quigley case, his blood alcohol level reportedly tested at a .114 at the hospital following the crash (the legal limit is .08). That detail came out in a wrongful death suit filed by the victim Angelo Schettino’s family.
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TSA wait times are still painfully long at airports across the country because of the partial government shutdown. Even if you avoid the problem by leaving Logan Airport in Boston, you will likely run into it when you fly home.
Exhausted travelers flying into Boston from George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, said they spent several hours in TSA lines before getting on their flights Tuesday.
Nay Dedrick of Dorchester was to supposed to arrive in Boston at 6 p.m. Monday, but said she missed her flight after waiting “6 to 8 hours” in the long security line in Houston.
“TSA was only 2 people working,” she said. “The line started downstairs and went all the way down to the basement, and then it goes all the way back up to the third floor.”
So, she slept at the airport and tried again on Tuesday.
“It’s very frustrating. I’m very tired,” Dedrick said after finally arriving home in Boston Tuesday afternoon.
Mary Jo Kane of Jamaica Plain arrived at the airport in Houston nearly six hours before her 7 a.m. flight to Boston Tuesday.
“I got there at 2-2:15 (a.m.) and then you go to the TSA and it’s kind of like Disney World during school vacation week,” she said.
One thing these travelers had in common is sympathy for TSA agents.
“I commend them,” Dedrick said.
“These people came in here, they’re not getting paid. Maybe their pay is deferred, but would you come into work?,” Kane said.
TSA agents have now gone 40 days without pay since the Department of Homeland Security stopped getting funding from the government.
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