in the galleys of the ships that sailed from the ports in england and ireland in places like dublin and cork, the irish government posted bulletins with the heading, "advice to irish immigrants." the posters read, "in the united states, wealth is not idolized, but there is no degradation connected with labor. an industrious youth may follow any occupation without being looked down upon, and he may rarnlly expect to raise himself in the world by his labor." over 100 years ago, this man, that same promise of america led my grandfather to come to ellis island and then massachusetts in search of his own dreams and pursuit of his own opportunities. that, to me, typifies the america and virginia we all believe in. that's the america that we are blessed to call home. over the next 60 days, our job is to enact policies to ensure this remains a robust commonwealth of opportunity where any man or any woman of any race or any creed, from any beginning and any place, will always have the opportunity to raise themselves up in the world by their god-given talents and their labor. [ applause ] >> so w

greece and ireland and portugal is the presence of a very, very large multinational sector in ireland, dublinand that's been going on the last 20-30 years. and if you look at recent news flow, unemployment is suddenly very high but there is a steady inflow of new investment into ireland. the low corporate tax rate is a key part of that together with their other parts, education which needs more investment and also the role of bodies like the ida that are very good at bringing in companies from the states in particular. >> and bob talked about the unit labor costs coming down in ireland. this is what germany wants. what germany wants the rest of europe to do. do what we did in the boom times when we had wages coming down significantly for ten years post reunification. people going to put up with that and is there any translation that the rest of europe can deliver the same thing? >> i think the private sector wages for new hires to come down very aggressively. europe is now in year three or maybe more of recession type conditions. growing recognition that austerity itself is not a solution to

is discussing the next tranche of the bailout for ireland so you're sitting there in dublin what's really going on economically there now well in terms of their children. now for the loans which satisfy the terms of that and that will satisfy the terms of the troika that's not true the problem so nobody expects that the i.m.f. and the troika will not disburse the next tranche the are the part if it is that we would expect them to be more lenient to us because we did satisfy the conditions of the thirty's so far what really has happened in the on the ground environment is that the irish economy hit this assertion earlier than greece before the rest of the eurozone and it hit the hardest so far even through the twenty eleven and also we expect now to play to twelve construction overall total construction during this cycle has been the deepest in ireland out of all the referral economies of europe out of all eurozone economies and the only in the next year we expect at least or overtake us in terms of the depth of the construction unemployment has shot from about four point seven percent. of

ireland. it turns out that the town is only 60 miles southwest of the dublin airport.family lived is 75 miles from dublin. it is 2007 and i'm sitting in the tibrare studies department in the library in require land looking for books and reading the microfilm of every county tibrare daily nurl from january first 1847 through december 31st 1849. i'm looking for family history and in particular one ancestor who disapeered between 1848 and 1849. james lacy. from what i read in these local newspapers is looks like the people's history of require land during the great hunger, my people's history, was never record indeed books. nor barely mentioned in any newspapers. you will only find mention of the local people if something unusual happened. the librarian tells me. i read the newspaper so i know that unusual is the polite word for murdered or murderer. why else would a poor person's name apeer in the news? why do i think the newspapers then report differently from today's news? i'm here in ireland reading every paper just in case. i will move ahead. the lacies lived in cott

ireland has to offer. ruth mcdonald, bbc news, dublin. >> it's now two months since the devastating floods that hit the southern philippines, killing more than 1,000 people and leaving many more homeless. officials admit that deforest asian was the cause of much of the construction, and the government says it renewed efforts to prevent any more trees being cut down. but the bbc has seen evidence that logging is still continuing. kate mcgeown reports from one of the worst affected areas. >> the logs that destroyed this city are now being used to rebuild it. two months after torrential rains brought devastation to this part of the philippines, there's a growing realization that it wasn't the water, but the logs it brought with it. it was the disaster's biggest killer. >> maybe those who penished would be reduced by more than a half. so if we had something like 750 people who died, maybe half of those lives were caused by the logs. >> in total, more than 1,000 people died when the tropical storm hit in december. cut trees mashed into people's homes. the president has banned all logging in the philippines, but it d

ended up going to ireland and getting a master's degree at university college dublin.e states and went to law school at the university of pennsylvania. spent three years in philadelphia. came back, and ever since coming back to the bay area, professionally, i have been a corporate attorney down at palo alto. i left after about three years and became an investment banker here in san francisco at thomas was all partners. working the industry for about five and a half years. in the summer of 2009, joined a venture capital firm. i am happily married. my wife and i lived around laurel village in district 2. we have two small children. our goal is five and our boy is three. how parents and excited to be here on the board. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? and tell us about what motivated your interest in politics. >> choosing to live in san francisco was natural, given that i was born and raised here. when you are a child, you do not understand what you have until you leave home. i have the fortunate opportunity to live in los angeles and abroad in ireland and

i ended up going to ireland to get a master's degree at the university college of dublin. i went back to the states and went to law school at university of pennsylvania. then i came back, and choosing to live in san francisco was natural to me. when you are a child, you do not realize what you had until you leave home. i had the opportunity to live in los angeles, abroad in ireland, and there is no place like home, when you are from san francisco. i have been a corporate attorney at palo -- in palo alto. i became an >> i worked in the finance industry about 5 1/2 years. in the summer of 2009 i joined a venture capital firm with two other partners. >> we are all excited about the americas cup here in district two but one thing if you think about it everyone knows what fleet week is like here in the marina. this is fleet week on steroids. think about fort mason, these will be the most brings taken places to watch the americas cup. what we're working on and working to continue to work on and want your input on, how do we make it a positive experience for the people that live

in the galleys of the ships that sail from those ports in england and ireland to places like dublin and cork, the errors government posted bulletins with the heading quote in the united states wealth is not idolized but there is no degradation connected with labor. and industrious youth may follow any occupation without being looked down upon and he may rationally expect to raise himself in the world by his labor. over 100 years ago that same promise of america led my grandfather to come from ireland to ellis island and then to massachusetts in search of his own dreams and in pursuit of his own opportunities. back to to me typifies the america and the virginia we all believe and. that is the america that we are blessed to call home. over the next 60 days our job is to enact policies that will ensure that this remains a a robust commonwealth of opportunity for any man and any woman of any race and any creed from any beginning and anyplace will always have the opportunity to raise themselves up in the world by their god-given talent and their labor. [applause] [applause] so working togeth

ireland, rigor and argument is often reinforced by some argumentive juice? >> they carry their alcohol in the debating chamber and i debated in trinity, dublin. finest experience of my life. >> the irish parliament, i have had the good fortune to be, i was drinking with a senator one day because if you're there, you're drinking and he said mind my drink, i got to go and vote. and this, they were all doing that and rushing to vote, but he was part of the operation as it was in the house of commons. >> still is. >> to a lesser extent since the television and cameras came in. >> but they drink on the terrace now. >> let's get back to america. >> one place where you really see the rigors of debate is the indian parliament. the level of argument, i think, is wonderful and where everyone -- the length of argument, we're treated to it on radio every once in a while, we get this and that of this. it's wonderful. that tradition is also alive in the british parliament. >> who do you think, linda, are the great americans wits and obviously we have those from history like mark twain who was superb. nowadays, we have calvin -- >> nowadays? >> nowadays, wh

in the galleys of the ships that sail from those ports in england and ireland to places like dublin and cork, the errors government posted bulletins with the heading quote in the united states wealth is not idolized but there is no degradation connected with labor. and industrious youth may follow any occupation without being looked down upon and he may rationally expect to raise himself in the world by his labor. over 100 years ago that same promise of america led my grandfather to come from ireland to ellis island and then to massachusetts in search of his own dreams and in pursuit of his own opportunities. back to to me typifies the america and the virginia we all believe and. that is the america that we are blessed to call home. over the next 60 days our job is to enact policies that will ensure that this remains a a robust commonwealth of opportunity for any man and any woman of any race and any creed from any beginning and anyplace will always have the opportunity to raise themselves up in the world by their god-given talent and their labor. [applause] [applause] so working togeth

dublin reportedly hold a referendum on the eurozone fiscal compact so now according to the financial times this is plunging europe into months of uncertainty and potentially placing a question mark over ireland's membership of the euro now the former prime minister of ireland is out saying this is a bad idea a no vote could have too big a consequence could mean ireland's out of the euro we can't be rattling those markets got to worry about the markets can't shake the bond markets we know how powerful they are and let's remember the last time we saw this in the euro zone crisis in greece when athens called for a referendum it was pretty much the last time we heard from the country's democratically elected prime minister pap and draw a zero as he was quickly replaced with an appointed technocrat not to mention former central banker lucas papademos to administer the markets tough medicine so is this another example where democracy is just you know a little too inconvenient for european politicians and policymakers and as your keep trying to prop zombie banks is what we're really seeing just the spread of this is gone be a mentality from free market capitalism to democratic governance that's the b

ireland. i think they were aglobal. i don't see the point of fighting to throw off the hated english opresser a couple of decade later, the supreme islamic council sets up shop in dublin. there's the supreme islamic council in now south wales. i think a lot of groups are concerned to put islam beyond discussion. it's not a question whether you say good things or bad things inch essence in muslim countries, islam is beyond discussion, and i think it's a fascinating topic to discuss and you should be allowed to discuss it. so these fellows filed a human rights complaint in canada. canada does not have a first amendment, and so speech is policed by state bureaucrats, which i think is an obnoxious idea and i'm glad to say since my case came along, we have managed to get section 13, the relevant part of the canadian human rights code, actually kind of put on hold. they're not kind of -- a judge ruled that the supreme court should take some view of whether this was even constitutional or not. but in the meantime he wasn't going apply it, and he essentially made the law uneven forcible. i think that's a good thing. i'm interested in free speech. i doesn't begrudge -- i run i

crocker and donated to dol golden gate bride and erected in 1879 and by the hammer works in dublin ireland. >> there is an exception to the rule. >> you're right and the stones from the abbey and now dispersed and line the path. >> right. there is an older building there but never got put back together. >> this building had 33 tons of glass in it. it was recently rebuilt and one of the reasons it had to be rebuilt these moderns are much more knowledgeable than the people in the 1800's and we knee w knew wo seal up the windows and all the building we did made it rot and it needed ventilation and had to undo the work that was done and back to the original design and expensive project and $20 million plus but it's a gorgeous building. woody can tell us about carville. >> this is the last in fact carville house. it was a community of discarded streetcars, horse pulled cars, various modes of transportation that were made obsolete by electric streetcars so cars were dumped out in the beach and sunset side and people made residences and the one is there and two cable cars and that is the upper an

ireland. it turns out that the town is only 60 miles southwest of the dublin airport.ly lived is 75 miles from dublin. it is 2007 and i'm sitting in the tibrare studies department in the library in require land looking for books and reading the microfilm of every county