Irish cop is credited with cracking 'Whitey' Bulger case

Read a book, the Irish Mob in America preceded the mafia by 100 years! It was only when a corrupt Irish cop in New Orleans went after the "wops" that the Irish lost the position of top criminal dog in the USA.

The posters here obviously never met Whitey!

This criminal may have been a part of the so called Irish gangs in Boston, but he's not Irish. His dad was born in Newfoundland Canada, his mother was born in the States, and he was born in Boston in 1929. I'm afraid that ye Yanks can't hoist this boy-o onto the Irish. He was born and reared in your land, not mine.

how inept are these agencies - seems those hired to do a job - sit about feeling heady about their so-called precious elitist positioning..... groooey, i'm the servant who serves to gets to drink a pint here and there. Mickey Spillane world, dreaming.

Interesting...it is a big deal that the marshall was Irish American, but not that Bulger was Irish American...is that like having your cake and eating it too? Bulger was a thug no matter what his heritage may have been and treating him like some hero is stupid at best.

Runs in the family Canon T Sullivan

Why are so many people glamorizing this thug? Why is he being glorified as an Irish-American? He's an American - period. He's a drug-dealer, murderer and thoroughly despicable specimen of humanity and there is nothing endearing about him at all. Any suggestion that he was some sort of a Robin Hood has been comprehensively destroyed for several years. He was a Robbing Hood,a gangster and nothing for which the Irish should feel any pride.

I guess it is justice that an Irish-American was responsible for capturing White Bulger. I think that too much of a big deal is being made about the fact that this gangster is Irish. It casts a very unpleasant view of Irish-Americans. I wouldn't want to be associated with this mobster or any of the mobsters heralded in the Westies' group for that matter. I am Italian, married to an Irish-American man, and my biggest complaint to all my Irish friends and relatives is that I am associated with the Mafia, etc. God, I would have a better manicure to sport and lots more money!

That's not Whitey or Grieg - it's a couple mistakenly ID'd as them - one of many who always seemed to be in sunny, faraway places (Italy, Costa Rica, Florida, etc.) when Boston's F-Troop of FBI agents felt the need to get out of the winter's cold. Apparently Santa Monica wasn't exotic enough or didn't earn enough frequent-flyer miles.