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The Constitutional Convention: have your say! 17 May 2013 | 05:19 pm
Ireland’s Constitutional Convention will be looking at the issue of votes for emigrants this weekend, as it examines the issue of electoral reform. Mary Hickman of the VICA campaign will speak. The pu...
A few words in tribute to my father 14 May 2013 | 02:23 am
I’ve been quiet of late, not because of any lack of things to talk about in the diaspora realm, but because I’ve been busy with some other things, mostly having to do with my father – I minded him for...
Tweeting for Ireland 8 Oct 2012 | 04:50 am
For the last seven days, I’ve tweeted under the @Ireland account on Twitter. Run by WorldIrish.com, the account is curated by a different person every week. It’s a relatively new idea, modeled after t...
Reflecting, post-Harvard 1 Oct 2012 | 10:00 am
It’s high time I got back to my blogging: I graduated with my Masters in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government a few months ago. It was a grueling but wonderful experience ...
A bit of a hiatus, but I’m still here! 7 Oct 2011 | 11:46 pm
I’ve been on hiatus for the past couple of months, owing to a rather dramatic change in circumstances. I’ve moved to Boston for a year to study at Harvard, where I’m working on a mid-career Master’s i...
Should we appoint prominent diaspora members to the Seanad? 30 May 2011 | 10:53 pm
Irish-American businessman Tom McEnery has made a number of suggestions about how better to engage the diaspora in assisting Ireland with its economic crisis. Mr McEnery, an author, businessman, and ...
Senator David Norris wants overseas voting rights in presidential elections 20 May 2011 | 11:34 pm
Presidential hopeful David Norris, who was profiled in a recent Wall Street Journal article as he toured the US on a fundraising visit, has come out strongly in favour of emigrant voting rights – but ...
What’s happened to Fine Gael’s pre-election promise on embassy voting? 20 May 2011 | 11:07 pm
Fine Gael’s pre-election promise regarding embassy voting in Presidential elections has apparently been forgotten. On Wednesday, Sinn Fein TD Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin South Central) asked the follow...
Relocation queries up, say directory enquiries 16 May 2011 | 11:51 pm
Informal indicators of emigration trends always intrigue me – we only get formal stats from the Central Statistics Office once a year, so any numbers that pop up in the meantime are interesting, if no...
Economist calls for research on new Irish emigrants 10 May 2011 | 11:42 pm
The experiences of today’s young emigrants to Australia should be researched in order to understand their lives compared to the lives of earlier emigrants and those who remain in Ireland, suggests an ...
