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

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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 for a long time, it’s odd that one who is as steeped in ( Read more... )