Do you know the worst thing about being Irish?No. Not the rain.It's emigration. We are a small, island nation with a mainly rural economy and as such, we have traditionally found it hard to support our many children. (We breed a lot too)!To use my own family as an example: My mother is a working-class Dublin woman. Out of her family of seven siblings, she has three sisters in Canada, one in North Carolina and a brother in New Zealand. She herself met my father - a fellow Irish emigrant - in

This time last year, I thought that the cloud was a fluffy, white thing that floated across the sky. And I would snort in derision at people who were constantly peering and tapping away at their smart phones.Now I am one of those people. And I know what the other sort of cloud is (kindof)!I took a local government course last Autumn - Fall to my friends Stateside - instructing people in how to construct their very first websites. I almost (almost) feel like I could give that class now! Not