Hibernian Radio Hour Sat. Jan. 25, 2025

Hibernian Radio Hour Jan. 25, 2025

Flood Bros. Disposal, Madden Funds, Fox’s Pizza, and Local 150 Operating Engineers present Hibernian Radio as Paddy Houlihan welcomes long time Houli friend and accomplice, the one and only Geno Cooney to the show and he does not disappoint. Geno is a long-time undertaker who followed in the footsteps of his father, Thomas J. Cooney, and grandfather in the funeral business. He grew up in Wrigleyville, living atop the funeral home on Southport, where he watched his father work very hard taking care of the Irish families of Chicago. He reminds us of the adage, “You can’t get to heaven unless you go to Cooney’s” and being the eighth kid in a family of nine kids, his adventures in college at St. Mary’s of Winona, “what I remember of them”. Lota of odd jobs after college, including trader at the CBOE, which he left right after 9-11, and his brothers recruiting him into the family business eventually. Geno kicks off the show with a joke of course and tells Paddy of his adventures in magic, comedy, as well as his tenure as President of the Irish American Heritage Center, and through it all we learn his credo: “I just like taking care of people.”