Tom O’Malley’s Locks & Pulls of Overland Park, Kansas was featured in yesterday’s Kansas City Star.
Locks & Pulls should be familiar to the Irish community […]

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If it’s now past Christmas Eve in your Time Zone, then check out all manner of good Christmas goodness.
Meanwhile if you go to Eddie Delahunt’s […]

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Last year, one quiet afternoon on Antique Row there on 45th by State Line, a basketball went bouncing past the Cafe & and was retrieved […]

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Despite all the hoopla about the opening of McFadden’s Sports Saloon in KC it’s fair to say that the opening early in 2008 of Raglan […]

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As I hinted a long time ago, another Irish pub, Raglan Road, has been confirmed for Kansas City’s new Power & Light district.
If you nose […]

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We’ve talked about Identigen before. And again.
Well the Irish biotech firm is in the news again, specifically in the Lawrence Journal-World for its plans […]

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The new Irish gastro pub in downtown Kansas City’s new P&L District, McFaddens’, that we spoke about earlier, is scheduled to open on November 9, […]

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Eddie Delahunt’s Cafe & is now open on Sundays.
Operating limited hours compared to the rest of the week - because we all like a […]

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I knew I had it somewhere.
I’ve just found my old Post Office Savings Bank book from Ireland.
Banc Taisce an Phoist.
I started it in 1974 with […]

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You know the way I’m supposedly moving back to Ireland?
Well, I’m packing.
Why thank you.
And I’m coping with uninformative shipping and trucking companies. Moments ago […]

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An Irishman, a Kiwi, and a Mexican, walked into a pub. And this new CD is what happened next.
Triúir is the Irish word for three […]

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Bloomsday Books, the quality used and rare bookstore in the historic Crestwood shops is looking for a partner.
Tom & Nancy Shawver of Bloomsday Books would […]

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Kansas City based Irish Trad band Kelly have lined up a series of gigs over the next couple of months.
We’ve already spoken about the Lenexa […]

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I’m closing down my online art store where I sell my paintings on Friday 17th August, 2007.
This is part of the process of leaving KC […]

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Ireland’s Sunday Business Post just carried a story of people in Ireland losing money in postal scams.
Trying to establish how many Irish consumers are being […]

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Sweltering. 45th & State Line. Cafe &. Nice night for a cycle. Aproned Eddie mans the gate with Gabe. Máirtín introducing Dick Darby on stage. […]

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Speaking of things that don’t exist in Ireland, how much confidence should I have in American business people who insist on calling Euros Euro-Dollars?
How […]

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Here’s a few random notes for the here and now readers among you.
If you’re reading these notes there and then, I apologise.
Bear in mind […]

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There’s a great article on Kansas City’s Boulevard beers and the KC microbrewry beer market in general in the Pitch.
By Ben Paynter it mostly tells […]

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Talking of following Irish trad bands, The Fuchsia Band from Cork are back in the US and, as they tour around, Eoin Verling has once […]

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