Category Archives: All Things Irish

Moody’s Downgrades Ireland

By MARK BROWN And MARTIN VAUGHAN LONDON—Moody’s Investors Service Inc. downgraded Ireland’s government debt by two notches Friday, taking the country to the brink of junk status, and kept its outlook negative. The agency, cutting Ireland’s bond ratings to Baa3, one notch above junk, from Baa1, said it was responding to a likely deterioration in [...]

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Dublin/Ireland Slang is Back!

After a dismal, desolate period, when the YouTube rendition of a Dublin colleen instructing us on the fine points of Dublin slang was not available, it has come to my attention that the video in question is back on YouTube. If you missed it the first time I posted it, here it is again for [...]

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Peter O’Toole, Pub Crawling in Dublin and Redemption

In keeping with my new tradition of posting something Irish on Friday mornings, just to get the ball rolling for the weekend, here is a charming video featuring the great Irish actor Peter Seamus Lorcan O’Toole. Peter is a great story teller as you will soon find out and his drinking bouts and Irish pub [...]

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