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It's a funny old festive season to be going back to Ireland. The Aer Lingus cabin crew are in good spirits despite their uncertain future. But then you land in Ireland and find everyone's trying to be good-tempered despite the massive uncertainties here.
Landing in Dublin Airport you can see signs of construction outside the aircraft and then you realize it's just the airport. Outside the airport the giant cranes are stilled.
It's as if the past 10 years just didn't happen.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 9/22/2009 8:46 AM EDT
It's deja vu all over again as Yogi Berra said.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 9/20/2009 11:19 PM EDT
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 9/17/2009 8:25 AM EDT
This has got to be the kind of agonizing career choice that only comes along once in every lifetime.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 9/15/2009 2:06 PM EDT
One of the world's best TV cooks has gone to the eternal kitchen in the sky.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 8/12/2009 1:21 PM EDT
Interesting comments from Liam Neeson on the Troubles in our news section.
He's said very little over the years about the conflict which would have been just starting when he was a teenager in Ballymena.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 7/27/2009 9:35 AM EDT
Only in Ireland!
A new site called simpleasseblymehole.com has been launched in Ireland to help the fledgling Ikea shoppers.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 7/21/2009 11:20 AM EDT
And so to the High Court in Dublin where uber-developer Sean Dunne is in a row with CB Richard Ellis over alleged unpaid fees of €1.5m ($2.1m)
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 6/29/2009 11:38 AM EDT
Check out our coverage and video of Susan Boyle at the O2 Center in Dublin... Click here
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 6/9/2009 6:27 AM EDT
It's been a massive weekend in politics here. Ireland went to the polls for mostly European and local elections and pretty much pushed Fianna Fail and the Greens over a cliff.
The hostility to the ruling government, led by Brian Cowen, is something else.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 6/8/2009 6:49 AM EDT
There are many many reasons why I dislike Ryanair. From the friend of mine whose image was used without her consent in their PR campaign to the way they treat their passengers and crew.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 6/1/2009 4:55 PM EDT
I can not imagine what the passengers and crew of Flight 447 must have gone through last night. I hope that things happened so fast that they were unconscious before the plane went down. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those who perished, particularly the three Irish women who were on board, and all those who have been left behind.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/27/2009 2:45 PM EDT
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/27/2009 2:45 PM EDT
I love this little snippet I came across today.
Speaking at the commencement of the Air Force Academy in Colorado yesterday, Vice-President (and Irish American!) Joe Biden quoted Seamus Heaney in urging the Air Force's next generation to use the most of their opportunities.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/26/2009 2:30 PM EDT
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/26/2009 2:30 PM EDT
My family decided to move back from England to Ireland in 1979. When I say "moved back" I'm really referring to my mother's family who were all from Drogheda, Dublin and Skerries.
My father's family were English on his dad's side and Irish on his mother's (Waterford). Anyway, up until then I had been taught in English schools with the English version of Catholicism.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/20/2009 10:48 AM EDT
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/20/2009 10:48 AM EDT
No-one has been able to figure out just what the world's richest people were talking about last week but here's my wish list for them.
Buy Ireland
Or do a lease-back
Or even rent it
Put Michael Bloomberg in charge of the country
Put George Soros in charge of finance
Put Warren Buffet in charge of investments
Bill Gates in charge of industry
Put Oprah in charge of literature (all Irish writers would get on Oprah list)
Put Ted Turner in charge of RTE (and TV3 to boot)
And finally - because we are so rich - move the Gulf Stream to Donegal (have you ever tried swimming off Tory Island?!)
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/20/2009 9:41 AM EDT
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/20/2009 9:41 AM EDT
News: U2 fails to sell out third date in Ireland
Uh oh. It looks like U2 could be turning into the Rolling Stones of their generation. You know, the kind of band that keeps on going even when their fans have moved on. I feel like that these days with U2.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/13/2009 10:14 AM EDT
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/13/2009 10:14 AM EDT
You'd have to be a certain age of an Irish soccer fan to get the headline but Gary Keogh certainly said HELLO to Allied Irish Bank chairman Dermot Gleeson.
Keogh, 66, pelted Gleeson with eggs at the shareholders' meeting in Dublin today thereby becoming an instant folk hero for the beleagured Irish.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/11/2009 6:47 PM EDT
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/11/2009 6:47 PM EDT
The British tabloid The Sun is having all sorts of fun with today's Oprah show featuring one Susan Boyle.
Apparently Boyle's Scottish accent was too thick for the audience and they had to subtitle her!
As you can imagine, The Sun's all outraged innocence exclaiming that "Every word had to be spelled out."
Producers might have had to spell out every word but the subtitles were dropped when Oprah interviewed Susan live by satellite.
hmm. Wonder what Oprah's show would do with someone from Kerry?!
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/11/2009 6:44 PM EDT
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/11/2009 6:44 PM EDT
British writer Christopher Hart has hit back at U2 star Bono over his poem for Elvis Presley.
The poem, American David, which Bono is going to recite on Britain's BBC next week includes lines such as the following:
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/11/2009 4:04 PM EDT
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/11/2009 4:04 PM EDT
Yep, that's right. Bono may be many things to all people but he'll never make a journalist.
The U2 singer popped up on CNN recently with an alleged "interview" of George Clooney
and it was a cringe fest.
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/11/2009 11:55 AM EDT
Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/11/2009 11:55 AM EDT
Poor old David Feherty.
There he was, writing a column for "D" Magazine, making jokes like he usually does and WHAM, he played straight in to the bunker.
He's all over the news today because of his comments (and you can see the story here) but in all fairness, why now?
The article was published on March 18!!!
12/11/2009 12:00 PM
Notre Dame and Boston College are now the only Catholic colleges playing at the very top of American college football.
But their glory days are over. Particularly for Notre Dame. New coach Brian Kelly might be able to revive Notre Dame somewhat but the reality is that the Fighting Irish have been on life support for some time.
12/09/2009 12:28 PM
Are the Irish dying of embarrasment?
A new report from the OECD shows that Ireland's five-year survival rates for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers are still below the OECD average.
12/03/2009 01:04 PM
Does anyone know what is going with Lou Dobbs?
One if his biggest backers, the ludicrously named Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), have pulled their support from him.
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