Jim Rittenhouse's semidaily journal of news, commentary and reports
A young student from China is Ireland-bound, and runs into a problem..agus faigheann sé amach go bhfuil an nach labhraíonn Gaeilge i bhfad Gaelic! 10 minute YouTube video, very funny and sweet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA0a62wmd1A
In Northern Ireland (and I’m sure my readers will correct me), the political system is way unrelated to the rest of UK politics – its own microcosm. You have a multiple divide in politics there – ethnic, religious, class, minority/majority issues, republican versus monarchist, and who smote who first and last. When you get these [...]
New blasphemy criminalization law passed by the Irish Parliament. “Under the changes, the maximum fine for blasphemy will be cut from €100,000 to €25,000.” Gee, thanks.
Is it just me, or is all this talk about Ted Kennedy getting an honorary knighthood from an British Queen weird on a stick? I don’t mean to say that he shouldn’t get any honors he’s due or that I’m no longer an Anglophile, but that after hanging out with a bunch of hardshell Irish-Americans [...]