Periscope
by Niall O'DowdRSS 
Recent Posts
- President Obama’s visit to North comes at a critical time for peace process - Hopes that he can help stop slow slide into the dark side
- Boston Irish Immigration Center continues to lie about their role in turning woman in to State Department
- Why no effort to repair damage to Irish Famine memorial in New York nearly one year after? - Car slammed into memorial and ugly plywood and metal barricades still mark the site
- How sports helped defeat the 'No Irish Need Apply' racism in America - Top baseball exec Tim Brosnan tells Irish Sports 50 how Irish served as example
- Sandy scourged Rockaways is on the mend with a little help from community spirit and perseverance
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I dread the upcoming September 11th tenth year anniversary.
I am not alone. I know several families of those killed on that day that feel the same way.
The late and unlamented Hurricane Irene has departed our shores, never to return but has left some vital lessons behind.
Authorities were right to hype it in the end.
One in two homes in Connecticut, 40 per cent of homes in Long Island without power is a grave crisis in itself.
Driving back to New York yesterday from upstate New York it was clear that most of the traffic was departing the city, not heading towards it.
I made it down to the city in record time, empty bridge approaches, no heavy trucks, a compete absence of highway patrol as I motored along around 75 miles per hour.
I had left Saratoga Springs about 180 miles from New York on a balmy late summer morning but as I approached the city the clouds darkened and the first squalls began to manifest, driving microbursts of rain that came and went with astonishing speed.
The death of a newspaper, especially in these tough economic times, is always a source of deep regret, but the closure of the Irish Post in England is a truly awful event.
The announcement that Britain’s leading Irish newspaper was about to close down was a shock to the system. How at a time when tens of thousands of Irish are streaming into Britain again could their main newspaper be closing?
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