Kelly's Corner
by Kelly FinchamRSS 
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- So-called 'experts' need to pay for their mistakes on Irish economy
- So-called 'experts' need to pay for their mistakes on Irish economy
- Bargain apartments for sale in Ireland as banks start sell-offs
- Obama marks Cinco de Mayo with immigration reform remarks at White House
- Immigation reform (or lack of) set to dominate mid-term elections
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Archbishop Timothy Dolan was supposed to be a breath of fresh air for New York Catholics after the creaking moribund reign by Cardinal Edward Egan.
But it's clearly back to business as usual with the Catholic Church as Dolan has joined a long line of senior clergy defending Pope Benedict XVI.
Incredibly, Dolan says Benedict is like Jesus and needs to be defended by his flock.
They have banned all advertising - including the new iPad which launches on April 3 - from the Fox network.
It remains to be seen how Rupert Murdoch, who is a businessman first and foremost, will react to this.
A stunning new documentary on HBO paints a grim picture of why immigration reform went down in flames in 2007, the summer that we all learned what "cloture" meant.
Sarah Palin has finally snagged a TV show after weeks of rumors and gossip.
And CNN says she'll be getting a cool $1 million for each episode.
The show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," will air on the Discovery Channel and will obviously focus on her home state.
The bowler hats are at it again!
The Orange Order in Ireland has called on its members to protest the Pope's upcoming visit to England.
You can take the man out of Ireland (Joe Biden) but you can't take Ireland out of the man.
You can take the man out of Ireland (Joe Biden) but you can't take Ireland out of the man.
Like many an Irish person has been heard to proclaim (especially when we are beating England at anything) sometimes things really are "a big ****ing deal."
Vice President Biden was caught making the comment in the East Room of the White House today as President Barack Obama signed the health care reform bill into law.
Biden gave a good solid Biden speech praising Obama for his "clarity of purpose" and "perserverance" and then said with a big smile, "This is a big f****** deal!"
A new HBO movie shows the late Senator Ted Kennedy fighting for one of the key political causes of his life; immigration reform.
The documentary airs just days after the House voted in favor of health care reform.
Widow Vicki Kennedy says Kennedy would have been thrilled at Congress passing health care.
I've always wondered what happens to the shamrock that the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Brian Cowen will present to President Barack Obama at the White House today.
According to a report in CNN today, it goes straight to the crusher.
Uhuh. That little bowl of shamrock, the "enduring symbol" of the relationship between Ireland and the U.S. is destroyed after making the long trip from Ireland.
If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of sanity.
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey is urging the Republican party to rethink its attitude on immigration reform.
"Handle it with some sense of compassion and some sense of civility," he said Monday at he National Press Club.
"Thanks for helping us keep drunk drivers off the road."
So says Joanna Newton of the AAA South which, with Budweiser, is running its "Tow to Go" program again this year for St Patrick's Day.
Triple A will come pick you up and tow your car if you've drowned too many shamrocks. But you have to live in Florida, Georgia, selected areas in Tennessee, Arizona and Oklahoma.
Well there's a question that bedeviled me during my youth.
I never felt as if I could join in the more "Irish" events at school, oh, you know, the singing and the dancing, because, as I would hear repeatedly through secondary school; "You're not really Irish."
Being Irish, in Drogheda in the early 1980s meant being born there.
The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform has set up home on Facebook.
I am the pro bono communications liaison for the ILIR and we've been inundated with queries lately about what's going on with the ILIR and, more importantly, with immigration reform.
So, I'm trying out the Facebook platform as an alternative to editing the existing Web site by hand.
Good news and bad news from Ireland today.
The unemployment numbers dropped by 2,300 in February but not because people are finding jobs.
The Central Statistics Office says that the most likely reason for the fall in jobless claims is because people are leaving.
Sarah Palin says she's on a crusade to bring the truth back to media.
(We didn't even know it had gone away.)
Speaking on the Jay Leno show last night she said it was time for Americans to be able to trust their media.
Ireland threw money away like a drunk in a bar room during the economic boom, according to a new survey.
Okay, that's not quite what they said, but they should have.
