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  Death of Virginia, ‘Ginny,’ Byrne, 62
    Virginia Byrne By Irish Echo Staff The death has taken place of Virginia “Ginny” Byrne, for many years a member of the New York St. Patrick’s Day P...
  
    May 20, 2020
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  Irish Sea line won’t be ‘international’ border
    According to the British government there will be no international boundary line in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Northern Ireland when B...
  
    May 20, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  Sign says one thing....
    Clearly not everyone is staying home. As Ireland begins a tentative roll back of the Covid-19 lockdown more cars are on what were recently almost e...
  
    May 19, 2020
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  Ireland's 14 day quarantine to last for now
    Dr. Tony Holohan speaking to the Dáil Committee on Covid-19. Oireachtas TV screenshot via RollingNews.ie. By Irish Echo Staff Travelers arriving in...
  
    May 19, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  Ireland commemorates the Great Hunger
    Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan T.D., officiates at the National Famine Commemoration Ceremony in St. Stephen’s G...
  
    May 18, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  New York and Belfast to embrace in a virtual link
    Cities stand shoulder-to-shoulder to count cost of pandemic and plan for bright future: New York-New Belfast conference to take place virtually The...
  
    May 15, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  Not waiting for the advisory
    On what was Day 50 of Ireland's Covid-19 lockdown, Friday, May 15, the government was reportedly poised to issue an advisory on the wearing of face...
  
    May 15, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  National Famine Commemoration set for Sunday
    Professor Christine Kinealy By Irish Echo Staff Not surprisingly, the plans for Ireland’s annual National Famine Commemoration have been revised. J...
  
    May 15, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  Slainte 2020 presses ahead as economic crisis deepens
    Siobhan Dennehy. By Frank Brady Though the epidemiologists positively proclaim that the curve is flattening as mortality rates and hospital admissi...
  
    May 15, 2020
    by Frank Brady
  
 
    
       
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  Building Bonsai
    Patrick Sullivan, a Bronx-born and -raised son of immigrant parents, is the CEO and co-founder of Bonsai. By Peter McDermott “Innovate fast and fai...
  
    May 14, 2020
    by Peter McDermott
  
 
    
       
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  Mask wearing in Ireland to be ‘encouraged’
    Don’t forget your mask if you want to go to work. More people in Ireland will be wearing masks as the economy slowly reopens in the next few months...
  
    May 13, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  As Beats Go.....
    This photo, on Twitter and via RollingNews.ie, shows "Garda Griffin on #Covid19 patrol at Ross Castle, Killarney. Remember if you need help during ...
  
    May 13, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff