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Hibernia: Quote Unquote

By Tom Deignan

December/ January 2021

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“There’s a scrappiness to the Irish that I can very much relate to. It’s a kind of working-class, not afraid to get your hands dirty, take care of a situation kind of thing. Being Irish means being self-sufficient and doing whatever is needed.” Actress Melissa McCarthy on her Irish heritage. “I wanted to liberate our scientists from any bureaucracy. When you get money from … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Quote Unquote

Something Sexy Is in
the Ringaskiddy Air

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2003

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Madonna is developing a movie about an Irish town where locals become sex-crazed after smelling fumes from a Pfizer factory producing Viagra. The script, tentatively titled "Something in the Air," is based on Ringaskiddy, County Cork, where Pfizer created the blue anti-impotence pill, and is written by David McGrath and John O'Driscoll, both of whom live in London. The actors … [Read more...] about Something Sexy Is in
the Ringaskiddy Air