Cross Examination w Mark Curran Sep 19, 2023 (No.19) Salute to Irish 1stResponders and Mike Houlihan

Cross Examination w Mark Curran Sep 19, 2023 (No.19) A Salute to Irish 1st First Responders and Mike "Houli" Houlihan. This show was pre-recorded at The Beacon Pub in Forest Park, IL Sep 13, 2023, as a Salute to Irish First Responders. Both shows sharing an audience in Ireland and the Chicagoland area.

Mike Houlihan is an award-winning writer, actor, producer, director, filmmaker, radio host, and journalist. He began his professional career in 1973 with The American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, CT and has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, on television, major motion pictures, our nation's largest newspapers, periodicals, and bathroom walls. For more info, please go to his websites, TapiocaTheMovie.com, ouririshcousins.com and skinnyhouli.com

Mike Houlihan is a former features columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, where he penned the “Houli in ‘da Hood” column. He has written the “Hooliganism” column in the Irish American News since 1996.

BIO Information on Host Mark Curran

Mark C. Curran Jr. is an American attorney who served as Sheriff of Lake County, Illinois from 2006 to 2018. He was the Republican nominee in the 2020 United States Senate election in Illinois. Curran graduated from Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in business from Spring Hill College, and a Juris Doctor from the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law. Curran attended law enforcement and leadership courses at Boston University and Northwestern University.

Curran began his career as a state prosecutor in Lake County in 1990, rising to Senior Felony Prosecutor. He then served as a prosecutor with the Illinois Attorney General from 1999 to 2002.

In 2002, Curran went into private practice, concentrating in civil and criminal litigation. Curran won the Democratic Party's primary election for the position of Sheriff of Lake County, Illinois on March 21, 2006, and won the general election for that position in November 2006, defeating incumbent Gary Del Re.

In August 2008, Curran made national news when he voluntarily spent a week in the Lake County Jail. On December 15, 2008, Curran announced that he was switching from the Democratic to Republican Party, calling his decision a "matter of conscience", stating that the scandals of Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich played a role in his decision, as well as the evil and immoral Pro-abortion platform the Democrat Party advocates.