Irish anger rises as House and Senate prepare to battle over bill

THERE was a palpable sense of anger in Long Island’s Irish Centre on Saturday night when Kerry woman Mary Brennan took the stage.

Irish anger rises as House and Senate prepare to battle over bill
Tue, 02 May, 2006 - 01:00
Sean O’Driscoll, New York

Fighting back tears, her voice faltering, she told the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) rally that she couldn’t go back to Ireland for her brother’s funeral last week.

Her brother Trevor, 23, had been killed along with his 18-year-old girlfriend, Eileen, in a car crash in Ballyduff near Listowel.

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