I love this video.
Kansas City’s Happy-in-Bag the other day was lamenting the lack of interest in boxing here in the US these days, and how […]

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It’s Sunday, and it’s sunny, so naturally I am indoors reading the papers.
Reading the papers of course involves no actual paper anymore, which is a […]

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Update: It’s over - Ireland all out for 218, England win by 48 runs
Ireland were chasing 267 to win. In theory.
And England finally bowled […]

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Paddy O’Quigley’s Irish Pub place, the self-styled Irish Sports Zone (”Neutral Perspectives With Constructive and Controversial Opinions” - seriously) on the SouthSide at 119th & […]

Read: Wi-Fi in Paddy O’Quigley’s in Leawood, KS »

Here’s a familiar post, but what the heck.
Get your green on. You’re Irish today. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Ireland kick off against Slovakia in just under […]

Read: Watch Ireland Slovakia in Euro 2008 Qualifier in KC, MO »

Here’s an article in Missouri that really irked me in the last week, for its opening line:
English soccer has nothing on American high school basketball […]

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Ah yes, the practicalities of living in a city not in your own country.
Excuse my silence Kansas City. I am trying to watch Ireland live […]

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A couple of years ago there was a lot of Scottish music at the Irish festival in Crown Center, some of it by way of […]

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It was always hail more than rain. With winds whipping it sideways. And we’d joke about it.
The rest of the time in Ireland bad […]

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This is it then, it’s turned 7:00am on March 17 and many of you have already started. I already said I don’t know why so […]

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It’s half three in the morning and I’m taking a break from painting pictures of Ireland where it never rains, the sky is always yellow, […]

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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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• St Patrick’s Day lingerie
• Not how we drew maps of Ireland at school
• 40 Megalithic Yards squared? An Irish Acre. And it’s smaller than […]

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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, […]

Read: WJ McBride’s Irish Pub in KCK Closes »

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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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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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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As I approach my eighth aniversary of being in America some people keep telling me that I haven’t lost my Irish accent.
Actually, I have; I […]

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When I was growing up in Dublin West, which is like West Dublin only wilder, I didn’t know anybody who played rugby, and I never […]

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You might live in the centre of America, but it’s not the centre of the world.
TODAY at 1:45pm Kansas City time, Ireland play San Marino […]

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