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Dramatic twist as rape case against FOX TV anchor Greg Kelly collapses -Outrageous allegation an attempt to ruin Kelly's good name
Ray Donovan, the Secretary of Labor in the Ronald Reagan White House, was the subject of a major corruption inquiry during his time in office.
He was found not guilty on all charges and told he could leave a free man.
Mitt Romney needs Donald Trump like a fish needs a bicycle
Mitt Romney needs Donald Trump like a fish needs a bicycle.
The sight of the vaudeville buffoon endorsing Romney will do the GOP front runner no good at all.
Grassroots spurs Gingrich to victory as Romney stalls again in South Carolina
Mitt Romney is in deep doo doo after South Carolina.
Moderates by their very nature are never as enthused as those further to the right or left of the political spectrum.
Thereby lies Mitt Romney's greatest fear, as he surveys the damage down to him by Newt Gingrich in South Carolina.
Stopping abusive behavior at St.Patrick's Parades can be done -- New York and Chicago parades point the way forward
In the past few days, the Hoboken parade, one of the largest in New Jersey, has been canceled while the South Side St.Patrick's Parade in Chicago is being held again after an absence of a couple of years
In both parades, the abuse of alcohol was a major issue.
Pope Benedict snubs Dublin's Archbishop Martin for new cardinal list
Surprise, surprise, no red hat for Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, the outspoken head of the Dublin Archdiocese, in Pope Benedict's latest list of new cardinals.
Martin is far too honest, straightforward and unable to play the Vatican game to be made a cardinal of course.
1901 Irish census reveals a long lost missing relative in my family
The 1901 census recently up on line providing an incredible insight into the Ireland so many of our ancestors left.
It’s at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie
Are you ready for Obama's re-election? get your bets on now
Paddy Power the leading Irish bookmaker has Barack Obama at 8/11 to win the 2012 presidential election.
That means you put down eleven dollars and win eight.
I suggest you run don't walk to take those odds.
Donald Trump finally loses it -- says he'd beat Obama by winning black voters
Donald Trump reminds me of one of those Middle East dictators who has lost contact with reality-- or like North Korea's late great leader, Kim Yong Il.
It's what happens when you only listen to sycophants and idiots and have a propaganda machine praising you at every turn.
Secret $350 Million gift to New York by Irish American billionaire Chuck Feeney -- Will go to build new Silicon Valley
Irish American billionaire Chuck Feeney has been named as the person who donated $350 million to building the new hi-tech graduate school on Roosevelt Island in New York.
Cornell University, Feeney’s old college, beat out Stanford University and other top schools to build the institute.
De Valera was the Irish equivalent of Korean dictator Kim Yung Il
Watching the North Korean news announcer weeping as she revealed the death of Dear Leader Kim Yong- Il in North Korea reminded me of the crocodile tears we shed in Ireland many years ago after the death of Eamon De Valera.
Like Kim, De Valera was our dear leader, a mythical figure when I was growing up in Ireland.
Irish media claims that Sinn Fein live it up in the US are far off the mark
Sometimes you have to laugh at the Sunday Independent in Ireland and their attempts to continuously denigrate Sinn Fein.
Murdoch journalist says phone hacking of private phones "a perfectly acceptable tool."
If you want to know how low journalism sank at the British tabloids owned by Rupert Murdoch just read the following evidence given today by John McMullen, one of Murdoch's top tabloid reporters at the News of the World.
The key sentence he uses is " I think phone hacking is a perfectly acceptable tool."
Anti-Catholic insults rife in 'A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas'----lesbian nuns, topless angels, playboy Jesus all add insult to injury
I'm not one to scream anti-Catholic too often but the new movie "A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas" screams insult at every turn.
It is unfortunately on your screens now.
Worse, the main actor Kal Penn, who plays a stoner, is a former senior official in the Obama administration -- I kid you not. Penn was associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
Regis Philbin is a proud son of Ireland, Notre Dame and a Bing Crosby devotee
So farewell to Regis Philbin from morning television but here's hoping he sticks around for a very long time.
I met Regis Philbin on several occasions. The last was at a Notre Dame game last year where he was chatting with Commissioner Ray Kelly in the press area.
Watch for the Newt Gingrich surge after Perry brain freeze and Cain mutiny
Poor Rick Perry.
When you are thrust in the national spotlight you better know your stuff.
Perry had already raised questions about his competency when he endured a lengthy brain fart at a Michigan debate and could not remember which department he was supposed to cut.
'Glee' show with leprechaun Damian McGinty a disgrace - Creator Ryan Murphy owes fellow Irish an apology
I've had it with 'Glee' and the leprechaun.
The Fox TV top rated series 'jumped the shark' last night when Heather, the cheerleader, really thought that new Irish exchange student Damian McGinty was a leprechaun.
Let's electrocute all Irish who come to the US illegally --Well Herman Cain wants to do it to Mexicans
Timothy Egan writing in The New York Times asks what would the reaction be if a leading American presidential candidate advocated an electric fence that would stop immigrants coming in from Ireland by electrocuting them.
Herman Cain, the latest name of the month in the Republican field suggested just that twice this week, not for Irish but for Mexicans coming across the border.
He said it twice after first apologizing for it.
The shocking indictment of Robert Finn, Bishop of Kansas City --Why did a bishop choose church over children?
Will Catholic church leaders ever learn that child abuse is a vile crime?
The latest episode is where the Bishop Robert Finn the Irish American conservative bishop of Kansas City was indicted for covering up a pedophile priest in his diocese
Why Obama should draft Hillary Clinton as VP for 2012---Obama team needs a change-up pitcher very badly
Some advice for President Obama.
Put Hillary Clinton on t e 2012 ticket.
It is time. VP Joe Biden is once again finding it necessary to proclaim that he will definitely be on the Obama 2012 ticket.
Could two African Americans, Barack Obama and Herman Cain, square off for president?
One of the most surprising twists in the Republican presidential race is the steep rise of Herman Cain in the polls.
He jumped 13 points last month while Rick Perry dropped twelve and is now the preferred candidate of 30 per cent of the tea party voters.
That throws up the incredible possibility that it will be Cain versus Obama for the top job in America, an unimaginable scenario just a few years ago.
US citizenship targeted as unclean in Irish presidential race as candidate Dana slammed
It is interesting to note that Ireland's effort to reclaim its Diaspora with a major conference in Dublin is occurring at the same time as a presidential candidate there is being excoriated for being an American as well as an Irish citizen.
One wonders what the many American businessmen and women will make of the attacks in the media on Dana Rosemary Scanlon since she revealed she was also an American citizen.
Amanda Knox now free a victim of British tabloids, Italian court system
Amanda Knox is free but she reamins a victim of an Italian court system that accepts clearly flawed forensics, that allows hearsay into evidence and that treats women as less than equals.
She is also a victim of the British tabloids. The victim was British and they have set out from the beginning to smear and damage Amanda whatever way they can, including inventing evidence.
Why Chris Christie should not run -- the media just want someone else to tear down
Chris Christie is coming under intense pressure to throw his hat in the ring for the 2012 presidential race.
The New York Times is reporting that a high- level gathering of Christie aides are meeting this weekend to plan a strategy.
The Times reports that those pushing Christie to run include the media mogul Rupert Murdoch, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Nancy Reagan and the conservative columnist William Kristol.
Rachel Maddow, Ron Paul wrong -- US right to kill its own citizens when they are Islamic terrorists
I turned off Rachel Maddow in disgust last night. She had begun this studio debate over whether the Obama administration were correct in killing Anwar al Awlaki because he was born in New Mexico.
She also included another CIA target who was killed in Yemen, one Samir Khan, also an American citizen.
It is complete nonsense to suggest that somehow these people should not have been killed when we had the opportunity.
Big Boost for Obama in death of Al Awalki the American traitor in Yemen
The death of Al Qaeda terrorist the American born Amwar Al Awlaki is a huge boost for President Obama.
While Republicans try to tear him down on every conceivable issue his national security credentials are once again clear to the world.
His predecessor George Bush never laid a hand on top Al Qaeda leadership despite all the bellicose rhetoric.
Andy Rooney was unlikeable, overrated and a complete bore
I never found Andy Rooney insightful or in the least entertaining.
I'm glad he's stepping down after 33 years with '60 Minutes'.
He's 92, a an age when most men have long gone to the great golf course in the sky but Rooney stuck around.
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly should run for president - '60 Minutes' profile paints a picture of leadership Americans yearn for
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly for president?
After watching the '60 Minutes' profile which captured the incredible career and life of Kelly last night the thought did come to mind.
Time for Bill Donohue and Catholic Church to stop smearing victims --Also attacking journalists Maureen Dowd and Chris Matthews
In the course of a long diatribe against Rolling Stone for publishing an article on the seamy sex scandal currently unfolding in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia the Catholic League's Bill Donohue takes time to side swipe Maureen Dowd of The New York Times and Chris Matthews of MSNBC for their previous coverage of church scandals.
He also crosses the line attacking one of the victims of the child sexual abuse.
Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio the nightmare ticket for Democrats as Rick Perry fades
The poor performance of Rick Perry in Thursday night's GOP debate has upset senior Democrats no end.
They had been licking their lips at the prospects of facing Perry in the general election.
His talk about Texas seceding from the union, of calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme had gladdened the hearts of Obama staffers as they imagined a debate between the two men.
Kara Kennedy's 'heart gave out' says brother Patrick--- Ted's daughter 'is with her dad' he says
Kara Kennedy , 51, daughter of Ted Kennedy died as a result of many years of chemotherapy to tackle her lung cancer which led to her heart attack on Friday family members said.
The treatment weakened her entire system and she suffered the fatal heart attack while working out in Washington D.C.
Her death was first reported here on IrishCentral.com and then reported nationally in the major media.
Kara Kennedy, daughter of Teddy Kennedy, has died of a heart attack at 51
Kara Kennedy, oldest child of Senator Edward Kennedy has died of a heart attack sources told Irish Central.
She took ill at a Washington D.C health club on Friday night and died soon after.
Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy released a statement saying his sister Kara, oldest child of late Sen. Ted Kennedy, had died.
Maureen Dowd calls Jackie Kennedy a ‘Geisha Girl’ in NY Times column ----Agrees with her that Irish have a persecution complex
The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has called Jackie Kennedy (Pictured above in Waterford, Ireland in 1967) a ‘Geisha girl’ and agrees with her that the Irish have a persecution complex.
Irish American Dowd says that Jackie was a deeply compliant wife who “was a Geisha” who prided herself on it.
She quotes Jackie in the sensational new book based on interviews she gave six months after John F.Kennedy was assassinated as saying” It was really a rather terribly Victorian or Asiatic relationship we had.”
Sarah Palin leaves it too late as Michele Bachmann has stolen her show
Now comes Sarah Palin, heading for New Hampshire for the Labor Day picnic, throwing shapes about running for president.
It's too late Sarah.
The stable door is locked and all the candidates who matter are out in the field.
Black and Tans were not so bad says new book ---savagery in Irish War of Independence on all sides
The Black and Tans were not so bad after all it seems according to a new book.
That will come as disturbing news to millions of Irish Americans including, by his own account, Vice President Joe Biden, who were raised on stories of Black and Tans atrocities in Ireland during the War of Independence.
Is Hurricane Irene less than promised? Media will be very disappointed if so
It's a funny business we're in. The media has gone stark raving bonkers about a storm that to date, as far as I can see has killed fewer people than a bad weekend of traffic accidents.
In the Bahamas when it was category three Irene as far as I can see killed no-one and destroyed all of 100 homes according to the BBC.
Make no mistake this is not Hurricane Katrina, a category 3 hurricane which slammed into New Orleans and destroyed the city.
Obama's immigration move on Hispanic illegals will help Irish undocumented - Long term strategy needed more than ever
117 Irish were deported in 2009 the last year that figures are available for. It is not known how many of those were non-criminal aliens, but my hunch it would that the vast majority would be.
Spurned lovers and jealous work acquaintances were the two top factors behind Irish deportations I understand.
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Five Irish immigration reform leaders meet with the White House
Earthquake shocks felt in New York -- Hurricane on the way !
An earthquake aftershock was felt here at our office in New York City about a half hour ago.
Apparently an earthquake hit Richmond Virginia, registering 5.9 on the Richter scale and the shocks were felt all the way to New York.
Several of us here in Irishcentral's office felt a shaking but I personally thought it was some construction work.
Strauss-Kahn/ Irish bartender/NYPD cops cases show how difficult he said/she said rape accusations are to prove
The New York Times is reporting that Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance will likely not prosecute Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the sexual assault charge against him for attacking Nafissatou Diallo a maid at the Sofitel in New York City.
Nobody in their right mind disputes that there was a sexual encounter with the maid but her background of lying and subsequent actions such as allegedly telling a male friend that she was going to gets lots of mullah certainly damaged her case.
It also proves why sexual assault is one of the toughest crimes to prove. If it comes down to he said/she said juries are reluctant to definitively take sides.
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