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Est. 1928 • December 31, 2008 - January 6, 2009
• Vol 81 No. 53 • The USA's most widely read Irish American Newspaper
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Irish Echo Digital Edition
Click below to read the full version of this week's issue online . . .
The IrishEcho celebrates 80 years
Click below for our special supplement.
Golden Bridges Awards 2008
Click below for our special supplement promoting the trade and investment links between the U.S. and Northern Ireland, creating jobs and further solidifying the peace process and the new political landscape.
The Irish Echo Index Top 30
Click below for special supplement saluting U.S.
and Irish companies building peace and prosperity in the New Northern Ireland. 
Forty Under Forty Special Supplement
Click below to find out who made the list:
2008 List of Top 40 Under 40 years of age. 
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  Win a copy of the novel "Disguise" by Hugo Hamilton
 
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 Irish American of the Year 
December 31, 2008
Christine Quinn, who has blazed a trail through New York City politics and beyond, is the Irish Echo's Irish American of the Year for 2008.
 New Year skirl
December 31, 2008
Remember the time difference. If you are on the east coast of the United States at 7 p.m. New Year's Eve, the year is turning in Ireland, 3,000 miles to the east and five hours ahead.
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 Quinn is Echo's Irish American of the Year
December 31, 2008
Feisty, fiery and as Irish as a sprig of shamrock, New York City Council speaker Christine Quinn combines the best of old-style politicking - the ready smile, the listening ear, the ability to get things done - with the cutting edge appropriate to the world's greatest city.
Yonkers event to raise funds, MS awareness - News
December 31, 2008
Shane Gorman found a new mission in life in 2008. The Ardee, Co. Louth, native wants to raise awareness about multiple sclerosis and to confront some of the misconceptions about the chronic disease.
Brehons back Irish language courts fight - News
December 31, 2008
An influential group of Irish American lawyers is being urged to put the British government in the dock over a ban on the use of the Irish language in Northern Ireland's courts.
Amateur boxers win glory on Olympic, world stages - Sports
December 31, 2008
Nightmarish as it might have been for a number of high-profile Celtic prizefighters, 2008 saw the emergence of Ireland as a force in amateur boxing.
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