If you’ve seen Eddie Delahunt perform around Mexican times of celebration (like beating Ireland in the 1994 World Cup), you’ll have heard a certain song […]

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The Wichita Eagle has a profile of Lenexa resident, Johnson County DA, Irish-American Paul Morrison.
Morrison, is a Republican who switched parties to run for Kansas […]

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Fiction in the Kansas City Star.
The Elders play Irish music at the victory party for the Light-Rail vote.
It’s Death and Devotion by Larry […]

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Before he indulged us, Damian McCarron of Colorado’s The Indulgers went through a phase as Damien Promise. Far away in America he recorded songs of […]

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Glen Road were in concert in Little Rock on Friday and Something For The House’s Kevin Kiley tells me that it was a great show. […]

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On Saturday October 21, in one of my favourite pubs in Kansas City, The Brick, there is a benefit gig for Ashton Gasser to attend […]

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Although many of the invited participants refused to have anything to do with the Observer’s vote for the best novel of the last twenty-five years, […]

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Twenty-six years ago I stood on Lansdowne Road’s South Terrace and watched Ireland put 6 goals past Cyprus.
Tony Grealish and Michael Robinson scored screamers […]

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Donal has word and some great photos of The Fuchsia Band from a gig in Cork last week. Kansas City may feel like it has […]

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Buck O’Neil. Honorary Irishman of the Year for the 2006 KC St Patrick’s Day Parade. O’Neil. An Irish name. From an Irish slave-owner.
At this year’s […]

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The long awaited new cocktail bar thingy in Waldo is open. On the southwest corner of Wornall and Gregory, at the opposite end of the […]

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Turn on the heat. Prevent starving artists from becoming starving freezing artists, while igniting your own creative energy. Everyone stays warm. KC’s Celtic Rockers The […]

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• Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has been in a spot of bother, over which many Irish bloggers have been in a spot of lather. I was […]

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So you get in your car in Kansas city and you go to Weston. To the Irish Festival. Because you like Irish music. And you […]

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Kansas City’s Celtic Rock favourites The Elders sent out a missive last night about this weekend’s gig in downtown Kansas City. It’s a benefit for […]

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One of the greatest charities that Irish music is associated with in the Kansas City area is the Hearing Aid Fund, Hearing & Speech Clinic […]

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This Saturday, October 7, at Eddie Delahunt’s Cafe &, you can watch Northern Ireland play Denmark in their Euro 2008 qualifier in Copenhagen.
Lawrie Sanchez, […]

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Flannigan’s Right Hook. Fridays. WJ McBride’s Irish Pub. 119th Street-ish. Overland Park. Kansas. 9pm. On the Events Calendar
Never mind the adverts, we’re going with Cameron’s […]

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The nationwide release of The Elders‘ Racing The Tide will be November the 14th.
This national release will get The Elders into many stores around the […]

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So I’m on the bus - you know I like the bus - reading the Pitch’s Best of Kansas City 2006 edition. Being narrow-minded and […]

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