Monthly Archives: December 2010

Which is why an estimated 30,000 legal and undocumented Irish went to New York in 2010.

Paul Finnegan, executive director of the Irish Centre in Queens, said requests for advice and assistance have increased tenfold in the past year.

“I look around and I know that there are young men and women there that would not have the opportunity to get a green card.

“I’m not saying that they’ve overstayed their visitor’s visa, I’m just saying that I’m observing huge numbers that I have not seen in before.”

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It’s about the famine, apparently.

“It tells a story of the famine,” says the song’s author Pete st John. “If people want to hang other things on The Fields of Athenry, that’s their business. It was never my intention . . . and I hate it.”

Blimey. Next they’ll be saying Molly Malone is about a prostitute who dies of consumption.

Celebrating A ‘Song For The People’ (Irish Times)

We’ve championed the little tyke since Wednesday.

Jamie, age three, made a sign, dressed up as one of Santa’s Little Helpers and promptly ran into his Uncle’s baggage trolley.

He is, in effect, a metaphor for Ireland 2010

Jamie’s now gone viral with more than a quarter of a million hits on YouTube within the first 24 hours. It may even topple the Rubberbandits’ 3 million haul.

Watch again and discover the real meaning of Christmas.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBQuPs5n8Wo&feature=player_embedded

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