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Writer who dissed Ireland quits job
Rathkeale, County Limerick By Evan Short The journalist behind a bizarre column that branded Ireland a “land of puppy farms, dingy bars, drug mule ...
August 25, 2017
by Evan Short
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Tommy Smyth offers a bag full of stories
Tommy Smyth By Max O’Neill Tommy Smyth is a man that has done what he loves for the last 50 plus years and doesn’t care what any of the trolls have...
August 25, 2017
by Max O'Neill
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Study break
Garda Philip O’Byrne, left, and Garda John Barrett being introduced by Professor Bettina Murray at the reception in their honor at John Jay College...
August 25, 2017
by Peter McDermott
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The joys of newly discovering Old Havana
A street scene in Old Havana with the Capitolio in the background By Bill Hughes Try forty-three minutes! This is the time it took for our chartere...
August 24, 2017
by Bill Hughes
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Death of former IRA man and author Sean O’Callaghan
Sean O’Callaghan in a 2012 RTE interview photo By Irish Echo Staff Sean O’Callaghan, a onetime IRA member who became an informer, and then wrote ab...
August 24, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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Senators alerted to MacBride threat
All U.S. senators have been alerted by the Irish National Caucus about a threat to the MacBride Principles contained in the Financial Choice Act By...
August 24, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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North war of words
Michelle O'Neill of Sinn Féin. ROLLINGNEWS. IE By Evan Short A new war of words has broken out between Sinn Féin and the DUP after the republican p...
August 23, 2017
by Evan Short
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Brokenshire in Dublin meeting
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Brokenshire MP, right, and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney TD meeting on Tuesda...
August 22, 2017
by Evan Short
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Salon headed for Laois’ Electric Picnic
Kathleen Donohoe, author of the acclaimed novel “Ashes of Fiery Weather,” is among the Salon stalwarts headed for the Electric Picnic in County Lao...
August 21, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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Swinging irons for a cause
Joseph Geiger, Executive Secretary-Treasurer for the NYCDCC; Jared Allen, former Minnesota Vikings defensive end and founder of the Jared Allen’s H...
August 18, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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Milwaukee: Mother of all Irish Festivals
Anyone searching for the largest and liveliest Irish festival in the US might be forgiven for looking first to Boston or New York or Chicago. And w...
August 17, 2017
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
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TV pioneer Donahue to receive O’Neill award
Phil Donahue, center of photo, was co-grand marshal of the St. Pat's For All Parade in Sunnyside and Woodside in March. Television talk-show pionee...
August 16, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff