Hey, I know it’s not mid March, nor any of those other select moments in the year when you’re supposed to be Irish; it’s just […]

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Somebody just told me it’s Wednesday. An Irish person no less. I thought it was Monday. It’s been that kind of week.
Anyway it occurred […]

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Busy busy boys are Flannigan’s Right Hook, every week in fact, and insanely so over the week up to St Patrick’s Day.
If you check their […]

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Sunday March 16, 2008, the day before St Patrick’s Day, is a busy one for Mr Eddie Delahunt.
Sandwiched between performances at the after-parade party in […]

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School night or not, St. Stephen’s Night or not, it is Wednesday in Kansas City tonight.
And that means - because I checked - that you […]

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Starting in January, 2008, Flannigan’s Right Hook will be playing every Wednesday at 75th Street Brewery in Waldo and every Thursday at Llywelyn’s in Overland […]

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Apart from being Halloween today, it’s also plain old Wednesday here in Ireland. And that means Coronation Street.
But because of the time difference between this […]

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A reminder that the World Premiere of Resting Places is tonight.
This is the locally made film narrated by Liam Neeson about roadside memorials that […]

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Did I mention that last night was my last at O’Dowd’s Little Dublin on the Plaza?
It was a Wednesday with live Irish music so of […]

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I have a cold. 102 degrees yesterday, 117 degrees at its peak on the Real Feel heat index, and I have a cold.
I blame O’Dowd’s […]

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Kennedy’s Bar & Grill of 75th Street in south Kansas City is reopening.
Just 6 months after the Waldo fire that completely destroyed it and several […]

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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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Yes I went to see the bould Eddie Delahunt perform in Kansas City for the first time since his return from Ireland.
The perfect surface of […]

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For my own reference, here’s a whole load of links to MySpace pages connected with Kansas City that I visit regularly.
Comedy, Bloggers, Bands, Cinema, Pubs, […]

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So I decided to cycle in the rain to O’Dowd’s last night. And very glad about it I was.
And not because riding on the Trolley […]

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Memorial Day Weekend in Kansas City. Some Irish events for you.
• Irish Award-winning film The Wind That Shakes The Barley is held over at the […]

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I don’t know how you feel, but every Wednesday in Kansas City, I feel Irish.
Sometimes I say it by shouting out the words Amhráns, bodhráns, […]

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The KC Visitors Choice Awards have been announced, and among the 19 categories of winners is O’Dowd’s Little Dublin on the Plaza - chosen for […]

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Rough times for Sunday night at the September 2007 Irish festival have been published.
It’s:
Solas or The Saw Doctors
followed by
Gaelic Storm or The Elders
Or you could […]

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On Sunday gone, Easter Sunday, I was working away late when I realised it was that time when I needed to leave the house if […]

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