Anyway, I’m Irish and I haven’t lived in KC for some time. So you can’t meet me for a drink on St Patrick’s Day. Because […]

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Here’s a question I was asked last night.
-Would you like Waggle Dance, Bishop’s Finger, or Guinness?
Can you guess what I answered?
I’m out of touch with […]

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Time was when I lived in the US that I would say one of the things I missed most about Ireland, was England - […]

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This is interesting. For me anyway, if not for you.
Right now I’m on a bus in London. And I’m online.
If you book early enough […]

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Last week I was talking to an uncle of mine over in England. He plays the bagpipes but spares people by bringing his electronic chanter […]

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If you haven’t been reading every entry and are wondering why there is a slow rate of update - it’s because right at this moment […]

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‘Tis 5 in the morning in my time zone. I’m in England on holidays for a family wedding.
In an hour people will be surfacing […]

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The Saw Doctors were unable to travel to the West Coast of the USA in May, and so pulled out of the recent San Francisco […]

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This is one of those weekends where Irish ex-pats follow all sorts of sporting events in and concerning Ireland.
Yesterday Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien - the […]

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Do you remember Christmas when we talked about the lovely story concerning the Bishop of Southwark after an Irish party in England?
At the time it […]

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In my post on Fun in America and elsewhere I’ve referred to ‘Craic’ being an English term that was then Gaelicized, and Conor has said […]

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I remember being furious with the FAI. Within 12 feet of where I sat, English boots and fists laid into Irish bodies.
It was 1991 and […]

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You know how recently I went on about the Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean, not least because of how well the Irish team did […]

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Courtesy of the four major search engines - yes Google is not the only orange - here’s just a sampling of some of the questions […]

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I was thinking of a phrase you don’t hear very often in Kansas City.
Assuming you don’t have a television or watch British parliamentary debates […]

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Directions from Kansas City, Missouri to Dublin, Ireland.
Because sometimes I forget the way home.
Google maps sends me to Massachussetts, and then suggests I […]

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Being Irish and walking among American flagpoles with their flags at half-mast has me thinking of the dead.
You know the way we sing happy-clappy sing-a-longy […]

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On the 95th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, there’s a lot of interesting news about the ship that was built in Belfast and […]

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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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The MLS (Major League Soccer) announced its full schedule for the 2007 season today and I don’t understand why it’s turned into the David Beckham […]

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