-& what?
-And the World Cup Final
A reminder that one of the Irish venues in Kansas City showing the World Cup Final on Sunday is Cafe […]

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Irish bare-knuckle fighter Dan Donnelly and his arm I told you about a couple of days back, features today in The Sweet Science by George […]

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Possibly the most unusual piece of Irish memorabilia around is leaving Ireland on Wednesday to be part of an Irish exhibit in New York.
The […]

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Speaking of football, former Kansas City Wizard, Scotland’s Mo Johnston, was sacked as coach of the New York Red Bulls last Tuesday.
Having watched Johnston play […]

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Let’s revisit Dublin in 1979. It’s a kind of love story.
Take a Subbuteo pitch. Turn the green cloth over and paint the word “Ireland” on […]

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To follow up on the Ryder Cup preparations I mentioned yesterday, the Minister in Ireland for Sports and Tourism, John O’Donoghue, yesterday warned Irish traders […]

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Speaking of Riverdance, it appears to be the inspiration for a change to the Ryder Cup which is being hosted by Ireland for the first […]

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About 480 miles south of Miami, Florida; 150 miles south of the country that doesn’t exist (Cuba); and 180 miles northwest of Jamaica, are three […]

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So you have twenty posts in mid-draft, and none of them are funny, yet you have less than an hour before Brazil play again. You […]

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The thing about putting huge rocks on the side of the road to stop travellers setting up caravan and camp, means you trap things on […]

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Speaking of Immigration and of the World Cup from here in the USA, I somehow missed this little gem from Tom Powers in the St. […]

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Today’s Wichita Eagle in Kansas carries a review of a book on Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish, which caught my attention because aside from my […]

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In 1986 when Ireland had a referendum on divorce I was drinking in Rathmines, and every time I went to the jax I chose a […]

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If you’re an American who happens to live in Boston, and couldn’t give a toss about the World Cup, the Boston-Herald has a timely reminder […]

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To celebrate the World Cup which begins in Germany this coming Friday (June 9), the Kansas City Wizards have invited groups from all countries of […]

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Much more important to Northen Irish football than losing to Romania in the Midwest, is FIFA’s announcement that to play for Northern Ireland you must […]

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A team called Northern Ireland just played some football in Chicago’s Soldier Field. Romania 2 - N.Ireland 0. But just like the Republic’s defeat to […]

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Before Jack Charlton invented Irish football, Ireland had a tremendous record at home. We went thirteen years unbeaten at Lansdowne in competitive games, and the […]

Read: Irish Lose: O Dear, O-dear O-dear O-dear »

Aother reason why the Wizards should hurry up and move across the State Line, is that soon the people of Johnson County will be watching […]

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In an attempt to gauge pre-World Cup fever here in the US, the BBC sent somebody to watch an MLS game, and chose our very […]

Read: The BBC check out the Kansas City Wizards »