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Alisha's story
By Frieda Klotz Wearing jeans and a white aertex t-shirt with the FAI logo, Alisha Jordan looked a picture of health on a recent afternoon in the B...
October 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Tribunal to shed light on Famine
By Ray O'Hanlon A fundraiser in support of the upcoming "Famine Tribunal" at Fordham Law School is set for this coming Saturday, September 29, at H...
October 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Ministers in NY for UN, Gathering
By Ray O'Hanlon Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and tourism minister Leo Varadkar are in New York this week to formally launch "The Gathering," the year-lon...
October 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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labor honored
Addressing the annual Irish Labor 50 awards night Monday, LIUNA General President, Terry O'Sullivan, said the honorees "reflect and embody the grea...
September 27, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Cruise to recall Corridan, waterfront history
By Irish Echo Staff The life of John Corridan, the Jesuit priest who campaigned for New York’s longshoremen in post-war New York, will be at rememb...
September 26, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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United behind council's big golf day
[caption id="attachment_73456" align="alignnone" width="600"] The Ireland-U.S. Council's recent Golf Day in Ireland was held at Dun Laoghaire Golf ...
September 20, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Songs to remember hard times by
Talk about 40 Shades of Grey! History's tints are legion and encompass every color in the spectrum. And yet we often speak of the past as though et...
September 19, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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If you build it...
The GAA has announced that the firm Mott MacDonald, who have built some the world's leading sports arenas, including the Aviva Stadium in Dublin an...
September 19, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Funeral prompts dissident crackdown
A dissident republican paramilitary-style funeral has prompted garda to announce a crackdown on terrorist groups such as the Real IRA. The move fol...
September 19, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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No sure thing
The path to the United States Supreme Court is a winding one and there is no certainty that the nine justices will end up considering the tangled l...
September 19, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Irish groups seeking alliance with Boston College
Three leading Irish American organizations supporting the campaign to have withdrawn the subpoenas directed at Boston College in the Troubles archi...
September 10, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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2013 plate will be parked
Clearly the luck of the Irish isn't up to the year that's soon to be in it. The Irish government is reportedly set to introduce a new license-plate...
September 10, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff