Gerry Adams and President Bill Clinton (Courtesy IrishCentral.com)

In the wake of the News International phone-hacking scandal, Irish Central publisher Niall O'Dowd wonders whether his 1994 conversation with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, which was reprinted verbatim in the London Sunday Times, was also intercepted by Murdoch.

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Walking around the Irish neighborhoods of Woodlawn in the Bronx and Yonkers on Saturday, I got a sense of a great absence. At a time when 100,000 are set to leave Ireland by April 2012, the silence on the streets of the Bronx, where new arrivals are still quite rare, was deafening. more>

Officials in the president's office were reluctant to become embroiled in a major controversy about her taking part in the parade, which has excluded gay organizations for over 20 years. more>

The President takes what should have been a local issue and turns it into a national debate. Worse, after enthusiastically backing the mosque, Obama backpedals, clarifying that he was speaking only on general principle.  more>

Ruth Marcus, editori­al writer and columnist with The Washington Post, has commenced the anti-Phoebe Prince Bandwag­on with a column that defies all logic.

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The passing of Senator Ted Kennedy leaves a gap as wide as Dunloe for Irish America and the Irish gov­ernment. Unless we seri­ously up our game, the Kennedy era will be seen as the zenith of our influence on Capitol Hill. more>

I thought of Jose from Ecuador, an undocumented immigrant I met recently. He showed his daughter’s picture. She’s 12 and he hasn’t seen her in 11 years. His Western Union money order helps her attend school and his family survives. Michael Reagan and Patrick Kennedy would have approved of this good and decent family man. I suspect their famous off-spring would have too. more>

On the one hand, we have a narrative about more and more Irish going home and fewer and fewer coming out. On the other, Irish activities and events have never been so vibrant in New York. more>

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