US Politics

‘It is now far too difficult for Irish people to come to America ... that has to change’

Leading Irish American Congressman Brendan Boyle sits down with the Business Post says it is not acceptable that Ireland is 92nd when it comes to the number of visas issued

Irish American Congressman Brendan Boyle talks about his attachment to Ireland and how it was deepened by familial bonds and summer visits to Donegal – where he was just another relative who helped to bring in the hay on his cousin’s farm.

On the morning of January 29 2019, Philadelphia congressman Brendan Boyle was watching the post-Brexit mayhem play out on live television from his Capitol Hill office when Prime Minister Theresa May’s pledge to not to reintroduce a hard border unravelled.

By that afternoon, he had drafted and introduced a resolution on the House floor, opposing the establishment of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.

Timing is everything. Then President Donald Trump supported ...