On being Irish - Time to embrace a new Irishness

SPEAKING in New York at the first US-Ireland Forum, dancer and businessman Michael Flatley has warned that we are losing our sense of Irishness.

“We are in close danger of losing the very thing we stand for and the very thing we came here to celebrate — Irishness,” he warned.

Is it possible that Mr Flatley is being just a tad pessimistic?