re: Irish relatives: My friend is a veteran cop married to a first-generation Irish woman. They went to Ireland to visit her mother, and he told a story about meeting a rookie Irish cop in NYC who gave my friend some lip about something, and he had to take the cocky kid down a few pegs. So his mother-in-law knew the rookie's mother and told on him, and by the time my friend got back home, the rookie'd effectively been spanked by his mother long distance, LOL. He apologized to my friend for being rude to his superior, lol. Do not mess with the Irish Mother Network!