[Happygal]

They'll be left of my right knuckle if they try to shove their 'plastic Paddy' down MY neck.

I'm not a violent woman. But NOTHING offends me more than people (a) assuming that the 2003 Irish nation are 1950's eejits. and (b) lording second and third Brian Boru bullshit ancestry down my neck.

YES!!! Many people from Ireland left the country and went to America and found a new life and fair play to them. And many more of our families stayed home, and (thanks to the American companies), stuck it out, and made the country very viable..and brilliant.

I love America. (I just hate the plastic Paddies who have funded the terrorists in NI..and they come from Boston in the main).

[metesky]

My late mother-in-law (McDonald out of Norton) used to call tham "professional Irish", but I think plastic paddies is much more fitting.

And you're right about Boston, there used to be the donation can in every bar and convenience store.

I always wondered how much money really made it to Ireland back when on the lam gangster Whitey Bulger was in charge of the pickup.