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MICHAEL WOLSEY: We will always paint the White House green

By Kilkenny Now 20th January 2021 0

I sometimes wonder if there is an office in the Department of Foreign Affairs charged with finding Irish roots for American presidents. If so, they have made a fine job of it, for Irish links have been discovered for almost every president since World War Two. Kennedy and Reagan were easy, of course. the clues […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Defend our way of life or we will surely lose it

By Kilkenny Now 11th November 2020 0

When  news broke last Saturday that Joe Biden would be the next President of the United States, I felt happy. It wasn’t the obvious  satisfaction anyone might have at seeing their horse win the race. This was something deeper, more fundamental, something that went beyond politics and policies. Other people have told me they felt […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: I don’t understand Americans. Maybe I never did.

By Kilkenny Now 4th November 2020 0

America has been part of my life for almost as long as I have had a life. Through my childhood, Uncle Sam was the distant puppeteer whose strings moved my imagination. The USA was the land of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, the Lone Ranger and Tonto, Ford cars and Hoover vacuum cleaners. As I […]

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LATEST: Kilkenny among 364 new cases of virus, Trump tweets ‘I’ll be back’ from hospital

By Kilkenny Now 4th October 2020 25

There has been no further coronavirus related deaths but 364 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed this evening. The overall death toll as a result of the virus remains at 1,810. There are now 38,032 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across the country, according to the latest daily briefing from the National Public Health Emergency Team […]

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US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania test positive for Covid-19

By Kilkenny Now 2nd October 2020 0

US President Donald Trump has confirmed both he and the First Lady have tested positive for the coronavirus. In a statement, Trump said they will “immediately” begin the process of quarantine and recovery. Trump tweeted: “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Trump’s trade war on wine backfires

By Kilkenny Now 28th February 2020 0

President Trump has been waging trade wars on several fronts. In October last year he decided that the enemy was European wine – and, incidentally, Irish whiskey and Scotch. He imposed a 25% tariff on these imports in retaliation, he said,  for EU subsidies to European aerospace giant Airbus, which is a rival of America’s […]