New York construction sites dominated by Irish builders

New york is the best place in the world. I now live back in Ireland, but New York was always there with open arms. Irish people owe so much to America, God Bless America!!!

the construction industry needs to make a greater effort to hire native american workers especially when new york's unemployment figure is close to 10%. they should be hiring people who have a vested interest in the u.s. to claim that 50% of construction workers are irish is ridiculous and off by about 40%

If they are not union go home ! Remember the celtic tiger ? Who needs a green card I'm going home ! You bit the hand that feed ya ! So funny, now the Irish got to battle the Mexicans who will work for less !

Are you kidding me Mrs. Gatling?! Let's legalize all the illegal Irish and forget about the Mexicans. Gee that will make a compelling re-election slogan for Mr. Bloomberg. Oh yeah, while you are at it, just forget about all the unemployed U.S. construction workers and encourage more illegal Irish to come over here because there are so many jobs here. And of course this makes sense, because as Gatling suggested, the Irish are so much more skillful in construction than other ethnic groups. Plenty of jobs in the USA?! Where has this Gatling lady been for the past few years? Maybe she has been in China or living in a fantasy world.

Ummmm, this is news????? The Irish have dominated the unions/construction forever.

The time-tested relationship between Ireland and America continues.

After all these years, the Irish are still building NYC