Rose of Tralee a glimmer of hope in an Ireland where life is changing fast

In some respects we have aped the worst of America.

Tralee is certainly not as bad as it was painted last Sunday, but it could be heading that way. Instead of addressing the problems, many people would rather complain about the media for highlighting them.

WHEN the Americans entered the Second World War following the attack on Pearl Harbor, they decided to send an intelligence agent to Ireland to find out what was happening on the ground. The agent, Robert R Patterson, had spent many years working for the American consulate in Cork and had only returned to the United States in 1940.