"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it" - from Donald Trump to Ireland and the Irish in America this is revealing itself to be frighteningly true.
Britain, Brexit and Donald Trump beware - an Irish American battle-hardened veteran of Washington politics suddenly finds himself a master and commander.
The greatest city in the world but the reality that Cuomo and de Blasio need to face is that New York is becoming impossible to live in for its people.
"It's easy to get emotional about this and start singing “A Nation Once Again.” But it's not just a matter of answering the simple question of are you in favor of Irish unity?"
If you could bottle the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP'S) chutzpah, you could solve the North's economic problems overnight Just call it Brass Neck and watch it fly off the shelves.
So, when Irish folks shrug off knuckleheads like the Proud Boys —or even defend them—perhaps they need to remember they have (if you will) some skin in this game.
Drunk babies, crude sex acts, drugs and booze. Most Irish people decide to just grin and bear it when the terrible St Patrick's Day t-shirts come around.
The strange underground noises you are probably hearing right now are created by decent old Henry Ford spinning in his grave because, as a wise Irishman said years ago, the whole world is in a state of chassis.
Volunteering at a detention facility near the U.S./Mexico border - a noted New York-based Irish immigration attorney spent time helping dozens of women and children make their cases for asylum.
February nonchalantly rolls in with its annual dose of emotional turmoil, kicking off 2019 with the same destabilizing roller coaster as every year gone by, and every year yet to come. Feeling the cheer?
Maybe the only thing more depressing than day-to-day governing in the Trump era is the prospect of two dozen (give or take) Democrats braying that they are the antidote to the miseries of the Trump era.
"ReMastered – The Miami Showband Massacre" to air this March, will serve a warning of the consequences of a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.
One of the hallmarks of the Irish state is our apparent inability to control the cost of public projects or to properly regulate pay levels for state workers.
