Lost in the noise about BRICK is the remarkable story of Ireland's software, bio-tech and other technology successes over the last decade.
But today we should celebrate more traditional Irish exports - Guinness, Bushmill, Potteen. Shaw, Joyce, Wilde. Leprechauns, Riverdance, Waterford. Ned Devine, Bono, Liam. Immigrants who built the US, Australia, the world.
And hundreds of expressions that my Irish wife (County Longford) continues to bring out every time I think there cannot possibly be any more . It must be true the Blarney Stone does give the country the gift of the gab. Explains why Ireland is the Call center and shared services capital of Europe.
So, friends...may you get the gift of the blog in heaven way before the devil knows you are dead! In shamrock green...
