The decision last week by Donald Trump to join with Typhoon Chuck Schumer and mini-me stormtrooper Nancy Pelosi took the entire weather-beaten GOP by surprise.
"I met two... ladies during showers of rain in Co. Mayo years ago, and their reactions to the rain falling down on top of them were sharply contrasting."
I'd never seen a hurling game, but I did know enough about its importance in Irish culture — one person described the final as “the Zenith of Irishness” — to know it would be an affront to my heritage to miss this opportunity.
Charlottesville, Steve Bannon, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and now DACA – compassion for dreamers would be a step in the right direction but whether he is capable of it is a vexing question.
In six months the Trump administration will terminate DACA, the Obama-era program that allows young people brought to the United States as children to live and work legally.
Eccentric Irish boarding school and its gifted teachers give us new insights into the difficult business of growing up. Cahir O'Doherty looks at the new Irish film that won raves at Sundance.
