In order to stay with the roots of Irish music -- it's kind of like classical music -- you need to study it in its pure form. What we try to do is keep it to its original roots.

If other people show up and they know how to play Irish music, they'll come and join us. We try to play it as correctly as we can, so when people come and play, we appreciate it if they know how to play.

If the crowd just wants background music, we'll just play for ourselves.

There was a proposal in Congress that would raise a point of order against any tax proposal that would not deal with the AMT. It died.

You can listen to traditional Irish music anywhere, anytime. But the very best place is sitting in the west of Ireland, downing your third pint of Guinness and knowing its great to be Irish.

Here we're in an Irish bar, we're celebrating St. Patrick's day and it's smoke free. And it certainly is a good thing for all people that are in here.