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Chicago Calling: Tommy Finnegan and the Beatles of the Bagpipes
Tommy Finnegan is the son of a Chicago Firefighter and has been playing the pipes in The Shannon Rovers Pipe Band for 27 years. He sez, “I’m not mu...
May 08, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
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An American Pope
Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost is the newly elected Pope. The College of Cardinals voted four times before white smoke appeared from the chim...
May 08, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Louth have edge against Meath
Most neutrals will be hoping that Louth beat Meath to win the Leinster senior football final next Sunday. The majority of GAA supporters agree that...
May 08, 2025
by Sean Creedon
Achill changed Henry's painting
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Cliona Ward Released by ICE
Walsh to make 4th defense
'50 Odd Years' reissue is a treat
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LETTER: Artistic Visa Nightmare
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An American Pope
Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost is the newly elected Pope. The College of Cardinals voted four times before white smoke appeared from the chim...
May 08, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
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Cliona Ward Released by ICE
Cliona Ward, an Irish woman who has been legally resident in the U.S. for 30 years but who was recently detained by U.S. Customs and Immigration En...
May 08, 2025
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Watching Over Molly
Pic of Day: Stewards have been stationed beside Dublin’s iconic Molly Malone statue as part of a new pilot scheme by Dublin City Council aimed at d...
May 06, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
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East Durham Readies for its 48th
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LETTER: Artistic Visa Nightmare
Editor: I read the article about the Fleadh with great interest since the USCIS (U.S. Customs and Immigration Service) and Consulate in Dublin do n...
May 07, 2025
by Robyn Boyd
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Nerves On Edge
The official portrait of Secretary of State Marco Rubio has the man smiling. Most photos of him in news reports of late shows him looking very seri...
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by Irish Echo Staff
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GERRY ADAMS: A new tribute to an extraordinary man
ON May 4 at 3pm, a statue of Bobby Sands will be unveiled in the Republican Memorial Garden, in Twinbrook, where Bobby lived. The organisers of the...
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Achill changed Henry's painting
Ironically, the artist who best captured the subtle and ephemeral beauty of the West of Ireland was an outsider. Belfast-born Paul Henry painted ca...
May 08, 2025
by Geoffrey Cobb
'50 Odd Years' reissue is a treat
In the media yoke this week is “50 Odd Years Revisited,” the newly-released reissue of Jimmy Power and Josephine Keegan’s 1985 album. Power was one...
May 07, 2025
by Daniel Neely
Jeseque wants to play her part
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Chicago Calling: Tommy Finnegan and the Beatles of the Bagpipes
Tommy Finnegan is the son of a Chicago Firefighter and has been playing the pipes in The Shannon Rovers Pipe Band for 27 years. He sez, “I’m not mu...
May 08, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
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Suffolk Police Emeralds gather to honor Irishman of the Year
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April 23, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
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BOOKS: Buffalo's Eternal Emerald Thread
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April 23, 2025
by Tim Bohen
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Louth have edge against Meath
Most neutrals will be hoping that Louth beat Meath to win the Leinster senior football final next Sunday. The majority of GAA supporters agree that...
May 08, 2025
by Sean Creedon
Walsh to make 4th defense
Never one to shy away from a challenge, “King” Callum Walsh takes on the highly seasoned Elias “The Latin Kid” Espadas in his next fight, on June 2...
May 07, 2025
by Jay Mwamba
Limerick eye 7 in Munster
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Boxing beginners thrive at Bua
Bennett wins it for Waterford
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