Essay from America: New Yorker of Cork origin uses swastika to repel Trump

Brian Donoghue thought long and hard before putting a swastika in his shop window and even after critics wished cancer on his family and ruination on his business, he believes he did the right thing, writes Caroline O'Doherty

Officials in the town of Saugerties in upstate New York where Brian has his bookstore think otherwise and have started enforcement proceedings that, in theory at least, could put him in jail for a year.

“I don’t see that happening,” says the soft-spoken father of six whose great-grandparents came from Cork.