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Historic evening
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Historic evening
By Peter McDermott The quiet conversations in the line outside St. Brigid’s were mainly in Spanish. Then a teenage choir member bounded towards an ...
Home after cheating death in Algeria
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Home after cheating death in Algeria
By Anthony Neeson aneeson@irishecho.com A Belfast man who survived last week's Algerian hostage crisis has returned home to his family. Stephen McF...
Al Smith IV dons his sash
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Al Smith IV dons his sash
By Ray O'Hanlon rohanlon@irishecho.com Alfred E. Smith IV was installed as Grand Marshal of the 252nd annual New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade...
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Frank McCourt, in the wake of his success with "Angela's Ashes," felt that any Irish person who fails to jot down his or her story was beyond an ee...
Groups still pressing in BC case
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Groups still pressing in BC case
By Irish Echo Staff letters@irishecho.com Against the backdrop of President's Obama's new term and the new Congress, the coalition of Irish-America...
Extreme voices can drown out the center
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Extreme voices can drown out the center
By Terry Golway When most of us hear about political extremists, we immediately think of the Middle East or other areas of the world where fanatics...
Family Power
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Family Power
Sandy aid from Chicago Lakefront to Jersey Shore By Ray O'Hanlon Congress might be reluctant to pony up for Sandy relief but, as has been evident i...
Rocky loyalist road to Dublin
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Rocky loyalist road to Dublin
By Paul Ainsworth GARDAI are preparing for a loyalist rally in the center of Dublin linked to the ongoing row over the removal of the union flag fr...
Son charged with murdering father
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Son charged with murdering father
By Anthony Neeson A talented Tyrone minor footballer has been charged with murdering his father at the weekend Aloysius Hackett, 60, a former chair...
Pecker gave us the Pavee perspective
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Pecker gave us the Pavee perspective
By Larry Kirwan So, the Pecker Dunne finally bit the dust. Must have been one hell of an ailment that laid him low, for neither wind, rain, rough l...
Violence erupts again over flag vote
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Violence erupts again over flag vote
By Anthony Neeson Over 100 people have been arrested and over 60 police officers injured since loyalists began their protest over the removal of th...
SDLP pol gets bullet in mail
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SDLP pol gets bullet in mail
By Anthony Neeson An SDLP politician is the latest member of a political party in Northern Ireland to receive a bullet in the mail. A letter addres...

 

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