For the last 27 years, he has run O’Donovan’s pub in downtown Minneapolis — one of the last Irish-owned Irish pubs here. There’s barely any traffic on the roads and footfall was slow when the Irish Examiner visited O’Donovan’s late last week. Mr Barnwell adds: “There’s not many Irish illegals here, so what’s happening now isn’t having that direct an impact. People mourn at a makeshift memorial in the area where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was shot dead by federal immigration agents earlier in the day in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday. Regardless of the reasons behind ICE descending in such numbers on the city, it’s happening now and nobody knows how long it will last.

Source: Irish Examiner January 25, 2026 16:31 UTC