Word: irishness
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...bought great Irish brands in Waterford Wedgwood, but it's been a dodgy business. Is there any hope...
...compatriots feel the same way. While Poles have immigrated mainly to several European spots since the country joined the E.U. in 2004, nowhere have they been more prominent than in Ireland. According to Irish officials, more than 150,000 Poles have flocked there in just two years. They now make up the country's largest nonnative population and at least 5% of the workforce. Many go for low-skill jobs in pubs or retail shops, but others arrive with skills in fields like construction and plumbing, which are crucial to feeding the country's appetite for houses and offices...
...pubs. But Pas is proud of some of her paper's scoops, including an exposé on the exaggeration of figures for Dublin's homeless Polish population by some authorities and media. "Our readers want to know about what is going on in the Polish community here," says Pas. "The Irish papers are all about who was killed where and when and details from celebrities' lives...
...Certainly, anti-immigrant fervor has been a staple of American political discourse for much of the nation’s history. The influx of Irish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants in the early part of the 20th century was met with a great deal of ill will, and the existence of racist laws in our past and the popularity of quasi-nativist candidates like Pat Buchanan certainly reflect a similar “anti-other” attitude. In the past, however, xenophobia has largely been relegated to a portion of the Republican base. Today it seems to have crossed party...
Officials at NASN, now run by the Disney-owned U.S. sports boss ESPN--which bought the independent European channel from Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports and venture-capital group Benchmark Capital Europe in 2006 for a reported $120 million--say their goal is to reach 100 million households in Europe, surpassing espn's 93 million subscribers in the U.S. The last person to call such an ambitious shot may have been Babe Ruth, but NASN executives say they've tapped into a growing demographic of European sports fans who no longer consider American baseball, football, college basketball or even NASCAR exotic...