The Kansas City Star weighs in on the closure of WJ McBride’s Irish Pub & Restaurant over at Village West by the Kansas Speedway in […]

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You can’t move in Kansas City without bumping into a tent.
The Record Bar, Martini Corner, Twin City Tavern, the Brooksider, and other parts of […]

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So right now the traditional beginning to all things celebratory of St Patrick is underway.
It’s the St. Patrick’s Kick-Off Luncheon at Marriott Muehlebach Hotel. […]

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If you find yourself down in Branson, Missouri for St Patrick’s Day - because you live there, you’re lost, or you’ve been kidnapped - you […]

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I don’t know if they’d behave any differently if the pub wasn’t Irish.
Or indeed if they carry on like this at home, but regardless, this […]

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Almost.
In the dark days when I used to drive a car in Kansas City, the Record Bar wasn’t the Record Bar. It was Molloy Bothers […]

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Broken record warning. So it’s almost the time of the year when everybody is Irish. But not quite yet. Which means that again there are […]

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During March, up until March 17, in Branson, Missouri, my favourite museum built in the shape of a half-scale liner in collision with an iceberg, […]

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Lew’s Grill & Bar, the people I like to refer to as our Welsh Celtic cousins, even though I don’t have any cousins from Wales, […]

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On May 19 a group of venues on the Plaza will play host to the new Kansas City Literary Festival, and one of them will […]

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It’s a big breaking Irish story. Word is filtering through that WJ McBride’s Irish Pub & Restaurant in KCK, over there by Cabellas’, the Speedway, […]

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Not to be outdone by The Elders in the Star, the Delahunts are in the paper also. The Dublin brothers are in The X
Colm and […]

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And now a brief message for the annual readers who haven’t been to Irish KC much before:
It’s Wednesday in Kansas City

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Local based film-makers, Melissa Villanueva and Joe Kipikash, are on Up To Date with Steve Kraske on KCUR, Wednesday, February 28 from 11am-Noon.
KCUR is […]

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As I said, I’m trying to spare feed readers especially - for you are the special ones - and am adding events for St Patrick’s […]

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Legendary Cork performer, Jimmy Crowley, is returning to KC in April.
They’re still talking about his last visit here, and if you missed it - […]

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As I’ve said before, one of things I miss most about Ireland is England. So the Ireland England rugby game yesterday morning addressed those absences […]

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A note from Eddie Delahunt, a trustworthy source.
As you know, Seven Nations are in town, playing Weston TONIGHT, and Rockhurst HS on Saturday.
At the Rockurst […]

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Ireland v England. Six Nations. Dublin. Croke Park.
This is history. This is huge.
England at Croke Park.
Saturday, February 24, 11:30am KC Time
Three options.
1. The Pub
2. […]

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It’s Wednesday.
The snow and ice are gone. The heating is off. The doors are open. The t-shirts are on. Christmas is a memory. The […]

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