WSJ: open the borders so hurling players can come here

No headline I can create would outdo the actual ones supplied by the Wall Street Journal and/or their crack writer Conor Dougherty:
Hurling in America Has a Problem -- Too Few Irishmen/The Lure of the Old Sod And Immigration Issues Make for a Player Shortage

For five years straight, the Clan Na nGael sports club in Atlanta sent a team to the North American Hurling Championships. That ended a year ago: Try as it did, Clan Na nGael could muster only 12 players, and it takes at least 13 to make a team.

...Hurling -- a centuries-old sport that has elements of field hockey and lacrosse -- has an immigration problem. With the Irish economy booming and the U.S. tightening borders, Irish expatriates are returning home and fewer newcomers are taking their place...
It goes on like that.

Immigration2007a · Thu, 07/26/2007 - 18:18 · · Importance: 1


Independent, in-depth coverage of immigration, politics, and media bias since 2002. Also: multiculturalism, Los Angeles, California, privacy, and occasionally celebrities and wacky humor...


If you can't find what you're looking for, see the About page or use the navigation features to the right.

Start here
Previous/Next
Diversions

Main

Atom feed · RSS 2.0 feed · RSS 0.91 feed · WML

Subscribe with Bloglines
Add to My Yahoo!
Add to My MSN
Please subscribe to the feed and tell your friends about this site.


What's Hot

Navigation
All Tags
Note: only a fraction of the content has so far been tagged.
Tag search
Full text search
Reliable, pre-11/19/08 only:
Site search (new window)
Custom Search

Categories
Archives

All Posts(links to each post by title)

Latest