[NeoCaveman]

The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform has been set up to lobby the US government on behalf of the estimated 40,000 undocumented Irish in the US.

Deport them now!

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

This is another thing that absolutely confounds me.

Whenever I go to a pub in either Manhattan or the outer boroughs there is inevitably half a dozen idiots from County Mayo, or Kerry, wearing those obnoxious, fluorescent soccer jerseys, pissing and moaning about how hard it is to live in this city.

Now, Ireland has one of the highest growth rates in all of Europe, and while I'm not an expert on realty prices in that country, I'm almost certain that it would be easier to make do in a city like Dublin, or Limerick, then over here, where the average price for an apartment in Brooklyn eclipses $700, and the price for one in Manhattan tops off at $1,000.

And that's for the equivalent of a one-room, studio.

When my ancestors came over from Galway I'm sure that living in a fetid, Lower East Side tenement made sense from an economic opportunity point of view, but can someone please explain to me the rationale behind the decision to do that now?