i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it said with irish american it's not genealogy it's archaeology. i found out about that later. it's exciting to hear the nuts and bolts experience of discovery. and at the same time i know i heard from both of you that a very spiritual and unmeasurable experience happens of people come alive in the histories of your family's lives. i was wondering if you could bring alive for the audience the individuals or characters of your family's history and also if you can both reflect on this point that daniel's making of the importance in going to the lands and seeing what is there. what that experience was like for you personally. >> i thought i would read a bit at this point. i think this is a good point for that for me. and so you will hear a little bit of what my writings been like in this experience when i went to ireland for the first

that brings an irish voice to the immigration reform bedate. as other speakers here, the irish are in real terms a minority in this debate. there are approximately 50,000 undocumented irish throughout the united states. but we are a very vocal minority, and i thought i would share with you some of the things that has worked for us in lobbying on this issue. and to my colleagues who are here tonight on their issues, there is no substitute for direct lobbying of officials on this. do not leave it to the mayor or even this commission tonight to lobby on your behalf. take it up and go after it yourselves. one of the wolf things about american politics, whether you are legal, illegal, in status or out of status, you can walk through the doors of federal government, and knock on those doors, and find someone to talk to, and if you try hard enough, you will get to the cossak person or senate person sooner or later. we have brought on several occasion 2,000 irish undocumented to washington, d.c., held a holiday on the hill, and marched through the corr

, if you like, in irish banks would have to share some of the burden. it looks like the government has retreated from some of that. the weather that is under pressure from the ecb is not clear yet. >> and portugals problems are de in with data revealed on thursday showing that the budget deficit is bigger than forecast for 2010. it is 8.6% of gdp, significantly overshooting the 7.3% originally estimated. it came after the inclusion of 1.8 billion euros in losses at the nationalized bank. the new caretaker government in portugal is stickingb. the budget deficit will be down 2.46% of gdp. >> as the u.s. debate its future role in a libyan conflict, defense officials in washington have slam the brakes on any prada american participation. defense secretary robert gates says there will be no ground troops in the as long as he is on the job. guay to sketch out a largely limited role for the country's military. he also said that some other country could train the rebels trying to oust muammar gaddafi. fighting between rebels and muammar gaddafi's troops continu

>> took the irish almost a hundred years to do it, john. i think it's going to be more slowly because the culture -- >> do you? >> much more different. yes i do the even though the united states is -- >> the united states -- people are moving into enclaves, john, by race and ethnicity, all over this country. >> irish need not apply was the sign in the window when this date nation was dominantly what, uk settled? >> no, this was dominantly british. >> right. >> but it took generations before the irish were -- >> because of the set into which they came! this setting today is different. >> john, take a look -- >> it's multi-cultural! it's multilingual. >> john, you got a multi- cultural -- >> go ahead. >> i don't think the wave of the future is racial and ethnic enclaves this this country. i think people are and will assimilate but i also think a lot more americans will learn to speak spanish, and i think that's a fine thing. >> again, i get back to the distinction between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. legal immigrants that come fro

mourning for the liver. [ laughter ] pro, it's like we're all irish for a day.e all charlie sheen for a night. [ laughter ] [ applause ] "i have leprechaun dna!" [ light laughter ] pro, in chicago, they dye the river green. con, in new york, they don't have to. [ laughter ] saves money. pro, you can celebrate st. patty's day in boston by watching the celtics play. con, the most irish person on the celtics is shaquille o'neil. [ laughter ] don't forget about germain o'neal. pro, you can march in the parade and blow your bagpipes. con, a gust of wind can blow your kilt up and expose your bag and pipe. [ laughter ] >> steve: four in the pouch? >> jimmy: i don't know what that means. >> steve: i don't know what that means. >> jimmy: pro, it's the best day of the year to be a red head. con, then it's back to the circus, you ginger freaks. [ laughter ] those writers. >> steve: indeed. >> jimmy: pro, kiss me, i'm irish. con, and my breath tastes like corn beef and cabbage. [ laughter ] pro, finding a four-leaf clover. con, tattooed on your left buttock in the morning.

bank of ireland and allied irish banks. the extra black hole came about after another set of stress tests for the health of the irish financial system run by the central bank governor. it revealed likely future losses of tens of billions of euros, that money likely to come from an already cash strapped irish state. >> analysts will make their own calculations and i suppose the indications will be, though i don't preclude anything, but the indications would be that this gain of capital we would see a majority state ownership in all of them. >> reporter: today's stress tests are intended to drew a line under market fears of the deeply distressed housing markets. it seem two dimensional, falls in-house prices of nearly 40% and counting sprin why. but it was the commercial property bust that caused the first round of bank collapses, the notorious anglo irish bank, which today announced a 15 billion annual loss. what should have been a bank problem is now the burden of all of ireland's taxpayers. so are there any other ways to c

a nod also to the irish guards there by prince william. love that he wore an irish guards tunic. he looked just spectacular. >> very handsome. >> and nice and fitting gesture. let's talk about the open carriage ride from the abbey. this is when everyone along the parade route the mall and that's the parade route from westminster abbey to buckingham palace, the open carriage there, built for king george vi in 1902. just fairy tale-like. >> the weather cooperated. >> yes. it did. thankfully and, you know, a little rare sunshine appeared. maybe that was princess diana looking down giving a little smile. >> yes. >> and we have give a nod to this guy. crazy things happen at weddings. this was wonderful. an astin martin breaking royal tradition and they drove this from buckingham palace all the way to clarence house about 400 yards but a nice surprise for the crowd. and another surprise, yes, when a member of the clergy decided to do cartwheels. you have to go to a website perhaps and we'll show you that later. >> didn't they have a big lunch? >> they did. among the things they had, i

disco policy beginning in the late one nine hundred eighty successive irish governments pursued vital spending cuts and tax relief which have made it a magnet for powerhouse firms and quote in two thousand and eight g.o.p. icon sean hannity in an interview with senator john mccain you are right about ireland's tax rates they did large tax rates on businesses and it's been a big economic boom for them and finally potential g.o.p. presidential hopeful mitt romney in two thousand and eight said quote you take a nation like ireland for exists for instance they cut the tax rate i believe it's less than half the tax rate most of the other european nations and they have moved from a basket case economy to a booming economy well now that booming irish economy has collapsed into a festering mess of debt unemployment and social chaos all thanks to those very same policies to fight it touted by republicans so from now on whenever you hear these guys calling for deregulation and corporate tax cuts as they do practically every single day just look at how well it worked out for ireland and look how

the dissident irish republican group the real i.r.a. has threatened to kill more police officers and declared it will oppose the queen's first visit to the irish republic next month. the warnings came in a statement read out by masked men at a cemetery in london derry. mark simpson. >> dissident republicans are trying to wreck the peace process. they have very little support in ireland, north or south of the border, even with a new republican community. but they don't seem to care. in a graveyard in derry, the so called real i.r.a. repeated their threat to police officers. they outlined their opposition to the queen's first visit to the republic of ireland next month. >> we clearly said that the people of england is wanted for war crimes in ireland, and not wanted on irish. >> the real i.r.a. objected to the professional i.r.a. cease fire in 1997 and broke away. together with all their small dissident groups like the continuity i.r.a., they've been involved in bombings and shootings designed to try to break the peace. there has been an

these were more irish people, peasants, really. they worked the field and the irish potato famine. the population of ireland today has not recovered fully from the poa lay -- potato famine. there still aren't as many today as there were in 1945, let's say. right in the middle of this, dirt poor, literally dirt poor is the reagan. the o'reagan i should say, family, at this point. thomas and margaret die. michael o'reagan is the only child in the family. my great, great grandfather. is that right? yeah. great, great grandfather, he learned to read somehow. he was the only one that wasn't illiterate. he came a soap maker and moved the family to england. here's one the other pieces of original research that i can claim and be proud of. i got an e-mail from ancestry.com. i don't know if you know that. i signed up for it years ago. now available the 1851 census. they moved in 1849 to brittin. maybe they are in the sense. maybe michael o'reagan and his bride are in the census. then i thought, no. they are an irish peasants, living in a slum. nobody counts those people. well, they were ver

, if you like, in irish banks would have to share some of the burden. it looks like the government has retreated from some of that. the weather that is under pressure from the ecb is not clear yet. >> and portugals problems are deep in with data revealed on thursday showing that the budget deficit is bigger than forecast for 2010. it is 8.6% of gdp, significantly overshooting the 7.3% originally estimated. it came after the inclusion of 1.8 billion euros in losses at the nationalized bank. the new caretaker government in portugal is sticking. the budget deficit will be down 2.46% of gdp. >> as the u.s. debate its future role in a libyan conflict, defense officials in washington have slam the brakes on any prada american participation. defense secretary robert gates says there will be no ground troops in the as long as he is on the job. guay to sketch out a largely limited role for the country's military. he also said that some other country could train the rebels trying to oust muammar gaddafi. fighting between rebels and muammar gaddafi's troops contin

. >> they needed to find people who weren't irish to do the jobs. they are planned a year in advance. they couldn't fulfill the contracts. they wanted a catering company to do it. i was one of 15 people not irish. >> reporter: the next thing he knew, he was reporting to work at palaces. he is still cooking, about to open a restaurant. his royal experience is a resume highlight. >> it's not often you run into somebody who has a culinary degree and works for a royal family. whether you are a great chef or not, it opens a lot of doors. >> reporter: he feels a special personal tie to the family. they were always gracious. in that postcard he saved from 1984, prince william is 2, princess diana is pregnant with harry. >> it's special for me. this is a one-time thing. the brother will get married and you will not see it again for 30 more years. >> it looks like the royal couple won't speak traditional vows. her vows will not include the word obey. the archbishop says she will love, honor and trust her husband but they dropped the word obey. you can see it

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he was born new year's day 1883 in buffalo, new york poor irish first word. he taught at one point he was going to be a catholic priest, but then he decided he really wasn't cut out for the cloth. he went to columbia a university, was a quarterback of the columbia football team, then went on to columbia law school. franklin roosevelt, and the applicable was a classmate. the two never makes progress about was from much higher social strata. they never really talked to each other in law school. he returned to buffalo, became a successful lawyer, married into protestant wealth. in world war one he won the medal of honor for heroism in combat. he was absolutely fearless in combat. in fact and his chaplain said that donovan was one of the few guys who actually enjoy it combat. he commanded a battalion in the 69th irish regiment, very famous the york city regiment. when he won the medal of honor he was the executive officer in the ground commander. that is also where he got the nickname "wild bill." before the u.s. entered into the war and, and have his troops in y

i'm irish and i was working for british newspapers. they said, you are irish, go to northern ireland. kosovo is quite similar. then i was posted to jerusalem and the middle east when the iraq war began. it happened on my watch. i don't have a choice, i could have walked away. it felt wrong to train in journalism and spend years churning -- learning short hand and gaining experience of the language and culture for jordan, iraq, and to walk away and say, i don't fancy this. i am happy to shoulder the lighter burden. tavis: for those following the story of enough to know, there was a journalist captured and beaten. can you tell me specifically what happened? >> we were covering the eastern part of the country that isn't under gaddafi's control. the rebels had started to lie about where the front line was. they started to say they have retaken this town, and we are on a roll, and it is impossible to stay back 100 miles back from the front line and know what was going on. we went down to the front line. it was much quicker than we expected.

the future royal couple represents a powerful symbol of the irish terrorists perceived enemy, britishern ireland. >> i think these people would have no compunction at all about carrying out an attack, if they could, on an event like the royal wedding. >> reporter: largely unnoticed outside of the united kingdom, a splintered group, irish catholic militants has increasingly ignored the peace agreement reached 13 years ago this month, meant to end i.r.a. violence. >> everybody has to take on board the fact that there is something new in play here. >> reporter: there have been more than 40 significant terror attacks in the last year alone in northern ireland. a policeman was killed by a booby trapped bomb just two weeks ago. >> if you're not with them, you're against them. and they will murder you. and that's the sort of tyrants that they really are. >> reporter: prince william's father and mother, charles and diana, were bomb targets of the old i.r.a. 25 years ago, before they were married when they attended a duran duran concert in london. >> attacks on the mainland, particularly here

not the irish, perhaps. despite the fact that william is wearing the uniform of the irish guard.e. prince and princess. man and wife. >> and certainly relieved, i'm sure, that the ceremony is over. >> kate still has to make that curtsy. >> it's interesting that pippa, the maid of honor, her sister, is wearing a white gown, isn't it? that's sort of unusual, at least in america. >> england the bridesmaids, pages or flowergirls, whatever you call them, always match with the bride. that's why pippa is also wearing a gown also designed by mcqueen is fit in with catherine's dress, i guess we better call her now. >> the princess catherine. >> the princess' dress. >> yes. ♪ >> all branches of the military will be lined up outside the abbey, as william will one day be their commander in chief. i love her dress. i think it's beautiful. it's so elegant and tasteful. i thought she might pick something more form-fitting, because she's thin as a wand. but, it's quite traditional. >> it fits the bodice. again it's tudor. it's very tight in the top, and then it's -- i'm not an expert. >> you are

the fighting irish overwhelm the huskies 72-63. in an exciting finish.n the other game, nine seconds left, stanford takes the lead over texas and m. aggies drive, going up by one, and they will hold on. a&m upset stan fjord ford 63-62. they'll face notre dame for the championship on tuesday night. and tonight, it's the men's championship game, butler taking on uconn, 9:00 eastern, right here on cbs. >>> in baseball, a rare triple play tripper. it looked like that. triple play. look at this. cleveland's carlos santana makes a driving catch. he throws to first for out number two, then cabrera tosses to second. it's a triple play. cleveland's first since may of 2008. the indians get their first win 7-1 over the white sox. angels and royals, the bloop fly scores two. we go to extra innings. in the bottom of the 13th, kansas city gets the win 12-9 over the angels. and in chicago, matt garza makes his cubs debut, striking out 12 pirates. wild play in the ninth though. pittsburgh's pedro alvarez, the slow roller, but the throw to the first is wide. neil walker

with 20 seconds left, the fighting irish lose the ball and the game.e aggies beat notre dame in a thriller 76-70. >>> in pro-ball, san antonio finally wins a road game. the second quarter al horford drives the lane and gets the huge jam to put atlanta up by seven, look at that, but the spurs chip away at the lead. they walk away with a 97-90 victory. >>> a tight game in los angeles. gordon hayward drives the lane and is fouled. his free-throw puts utah up by one. with no time on the clock kobe bryant has a chance to win but loses the ball. utah stuns the lakers 86-85. >>> in baseball the red sox can't seem to catch a break. top of the second, cleveland makes a great throw from right field to nail j.d. drew at the plate. in the fourth jack hanahan hits a single to center to put the indians up by one. the sox are kept winless this season. >>> in extra innings joe mauer's single to right puts the twins up by one over the yankees. bottom of the tenth, derek jeter goes down swinging. minnesota rallies to beat new york 5-4. >>> when we return, another look a

you didn't know who was who until you heard an irish last name, perhaps. then since -- and even they had to finally get accepted so that -- look at congress today, hispanics are going to have very much the same i think -- the same -- >> economics. >> i do. there can be so many of them they are also going to benefit from the fact that african americans have opened the way for people of color it's hard to begainst them simply because they're not white and if we can just get these hard working immigrants to know working hard and even the children work hard isn't enough in the economy, you got to graduate from high school and you got to go to college. if you just do that and spend the time, some fun, but the time and whatever it takes the country is going to be fine. >> from diversity to discord as congress worked on last minute budget negotiations, women's groups rallied outside the capitol this week to protest what they call extreme proposals targeting women's healthcare. led by planned parenthood and naral pro-choice america, protesters at the stand up for

and they call them assets and this is a wealth of the people now these are the bad debts of anglo irish bank mostly and now the people themselves are having to give up real assets their own national wealth and their resources in order to make good on those assets right so they have a bunch of debts and then as part of the reconfiguration when there is this coup by the bankers of the country they call the debts assets and then to pay for the they're going to actually start to liquidate the people's actual assets that's correct it sounds like a scam in three so we're going to go over some other scams and money laundering operations around the world the first one virtual pigs and kooks see payday for crooks this is new south wales in australia and apparently according to the police chief their virtual worlds like farmville a world of warcraft are being used by criminals to launder money who have discovered that buying and selling virtual items and currency is a growing new way of cleaning dirty money. on the show we've talked about farmville facebook zingo the virtual currency goldman sach

had to take measures to protect the event from any sort of terrorist groups irish republican dissidents or middle eastern terrorist groups and i don't think anyone complains about the fact that they're trying to stop and get stopped protesters exercising their right to freedom of expression around the royal wedding is of much greater concern because the police are talking about such squads and drawn raids and in fact there's the sort of measures that are indeed used in countries like syria but we used against u.k. protesters including notably leading peace activists charlie veach yesterday as a preventive measure and as apparently just disappeared into the system his family his girlfriend can't trace him they're being blocked in light by the police even his lawyers can't find him so he seems to have sort of disappeared in a rather cath caressed way and i think it's dangerous dangerous path to go down because this man hadn't done anything he might even suspect he might want to protest but he hadn't done anything so effectively what we're looking at is an already in thought crime within w

constantini irish bank who was arrested during a sting in west africa last year and brought to america he denies the charges are he's honest r.c. church in iraq ports from new york. words not deeds landing foreigners behind bars in the us russian pilot constantine your shango has been found guilty by a manhattan federal court jury of conspiring to smuggle drugs across borders the man was scooped up by u.s. officials in liberia last year and promptly taken to america along with three other suspects from africa what your shimko face to me was was a ten month wait for a trial a month long hearing and now a guilty verdict the pilot and his family maintained his innocence at least part of the facts were fabricated all the tapes were distorted by the prosecution u.s. officials played a leading role in the arrest of the russian citizen posing as drug dealers american secret agents conducted meetings with the floor resulting in hours of recordings the prosecution then put forward as proof of your cousin tends to conspire to smuggle tons of cocaine to south america and later into the u.s. in li

once you claim your mexican, or israeli, or irish, then you look at it for what it is and you remember before you were any of those things. you were like and loved. those are the things they give you peace, lasting chances over the history of the planet, a lot of war happening because of religion, because of differences. i like to celebrate, like bob marley. like marvin gaye. i would like to thank jerry and diane for helping me to accelerate into a new perception for myself. when we perceive specialists, you can get in trouble -- when we perceive that we are special, you can get in trouble. you need special drugs for special pain because no one understands you. but someone thinks you are special. will you except they your significant and meaningful? then you do not need a doctor. being special is me, myself, and my experience. it will always get you in trouble. when you except that you are significant and meaningful, something happens with the universe, it comes to life. but i look at you the same way that you look at me. the creator made u.s. the same. consciousness. when i travel aro

, you know, the irish used to do all the dirty work, although there were alliances between the irish and african-americans. maybe pat buchanan doesn't know. but it goes all the way. but there's a man named colby, edward colby, who was a member of this profession. they were called nigger breakers. and frederick douglass, who's one of the unruly black men who was sent to him to be disciplined. and the life and times of frederick douglass. he talks about how he turned the tables on this guy. so guess who lives in everett colby's house now. donald rumsfeld lives in this guy's home. that was in the "washington post." so what i'm saying is we have these neoconfederates. i'm beginning to wonder who won the war. i came up in the car yesterday by the national archive and robert lee's picture is just as big as lincoln's. and i guess when we get more tea party in there, it will be larger. but anyway, we have these people and i think as an african-american and being acquainted with the african-american tradition i can read the signs, i can read the language and i can decode things. so when senat

there's a bunch of irish guys, milanos and blacks. there's nigger breakers and president douglas was one of the unruly black men sent to him to be disciplined and the life and times of frederick douglass, and he turns the table on the guy, and guess who lives in the house now? it's called misery, or donald rumsfeld lives in that home now. it was in the "washington post". what i'm saying now is what we have is like these neoconfederates. i'm beginning to wonder who won the war. i came up in the car yesterday by the national archives, and robert lee's picture is the biggest. lincoln, and i guess more tea party people in there and it will be larger, but, anyway, we have these people, and i think as an african-american and being acquainted with the african-american oil tradition, i can read the signs. i can read the language and decode things, so when senator mint said he wanted to bring barak obama, i knew exactly what that meant, and i want to say on behalf of the south that the south is 50 years ahead of the media. in the terms of our

prince william in his uniform of the irish guard. she did not promise to obey but to comfort.n he becomes king she will have to obey. then from there, the open carriage ride. that was from the abbey as they left the church. duke and duchess of cambridge along the mall to buckingham palace. it was just awesome. >> fairy tale-like. >> the great british public just roaring, going nuts. friends of mine who tweeted and sent me pictures said it was unlike anything they have ever experienced. the last time a ride like this was done sadly was when diana passed away. >> is this the same coach? >> i'm not sure. i know they used this coach for previous weddings, fergie's weddings and the same coach for diana's, i know that. so it was used in 1907 for king george vi. someone will correct me. >> the british know how to do this pageantry. >> they do. they do it so well. so incredibly well. every little moment timed to the second. i mentioned twitter. lots of funny tweets coming in. but also some great photographs. the kiss, i mean, that was the moment that everyone had been waiting for. and

with both the footsie and the tanks up almost one percent with banks reacting to the results of the irish stress tests the central bank of ireland stress tests on the nation's banks showed that four of them needed total of thirty four billion dollars in order to meet the new capital requirements of the government is now going to radically restructure the banking sector and reduce the number of domestic banks by creating two new banks meanwhile shares in bank of ireland jumped twenty seven percent as it will be one of the country's main banks under the new plans and the energy sector shares in b.p. also rose to the same high oil prices and here in russia both the r.t.s. and the my sets out this hour almost one point two percent for the afghans and one point one two percent for the my six. now let's have a look at some individual shares oil majors of the major game is at the moment with lukoil adderall is now trading more than one point five percent each banking stocks are also on the rise with spurs bag around one point seven seven percent on the my six. the price of oil has reached a two

morgan these big banks anglo irish bank took trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars he says but compared to laundering. money at the track or casino or offshore financial havens i would suggest that the online stuff is a fraction of a fraction compared to all the other ways that criminals longer funds which are still very successful you don't innovate as a criminal unless you have to and while this may sound really cool i would suggest that traditional means of money laundering are still pretty effective for no i mean it's a growth industry and remember you've got to back in the valuation on a company like goldman sachs who is in effect a criminal syndicate we have to incorporate that into your multibillion dollar money laundering equation when examining the facebook scam so let's look at as he mentions traditional means of money laundering so let's look at how they are still successful in the world today headline reads bill gross says treasuries have little value echoing buffett so bill gross we've spoken of him many times he runs the world's largest bond fund and he writes