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Margaret never took to being called “Marge,” hating, she says, “Americans’ lazy habit of ‘nicknames.’” Nor did she much like her U.S.-born husband’...

November 20, 2025 By Peter McDermott

The Sheriff was feared, respected

The most respected and significant person of my boyhood in Mountmellick, Co. Laois, was E. J. Breen, who taught in the Boys’ National School. He wa...

November 20, 2025 By Tom Phelan

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Prague Bound

Pic of Day: Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrímsson (right) and FAI communications manager Kieran Crowley after the draw that will see Irel...

November 20, 2025 By Irish Echo Staff