We’ve been here so many times before. Right now people in Ireland are wearing green shirts in pubs. And people in Kansas City are wearing […]

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All-Ireland semi-final day. The 2nd one. Last week Cork dismissed Meath with frightening ease.
And today, moments ago, Dublin and Kerry finished their game.
We talk […]

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Anybody who has tried Setanta Broadband to watch Irish sports before and wished it offered better resolution enabling a bigger viewing onscreen area will be […]

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I do love GAA Championship Sundays like yesterday.
When I left Ireland and moved to Kansas City, Waterford hadn’t been Munster Hurling champions since 1963, and […]

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Am watching the Munster Football Final live from Killarney in Kerry via Setanta.
This is Gaelic Football lest you be wondering. The Kingdom are playing […]

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I’ve been critical of Setanta, the Irish multi-platform international sports broadcaster, many times on Irish KC.
Most of my remarks have been casual and flippant without […]

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The European super bantamweight title fight between Ireland’s Bernard Dunne and Norwegian Reidar Walstad is being webcast LIVE by RTE this Saturday, June 23, […]

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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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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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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 […]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Normally at this time of the year I am besieged with suggestions as to where I can watch Ireland in the Six Nations rugby yokeymabob. […]

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Twenty-six years ago I stood on Lansdowne Road’s South Terrace and watched Ireland put six goals past Cyprus. Tony Grealish and Michael Robinson scored screamers […]

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