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Rory’s glory
Scotland is the home of golf, America’s its greatest stage, but Ireland this week is the beating heart of the game after Rory McIlroy stunned the s...
June 22, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Irish Big Three
Bethesda, MD —- The big three of Irish golf have convened in Bethesda, Maryland this week to battle for the United States Open championship, a golf...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Brian Lenihan, dead at 52, is laid to rest
The funeral Mass for Ireland's former finance minister Brian Lenihan has taken place in Dublin, the gathering uniting representatives from across t...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Kerry native's bid for U.S. Congress seat
Tralee, County Kerry native, Brianne Murphy, is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives representing a district cenetered in Syracu...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Joyce is covering the boroughs
You won't have to be in Dublin this Bloomsday to absorb the full James Joyce experience. The Irish writer will be celebrated on his famous day in t...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Noonan in U.S. to reassure, and lure
Ireland's finance minister, Michael Noonan, is in the U.S. this week working to pump up Ireland's image while at the same time working to lure more...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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In this place, the walls say it all
If only these walls could talk, goes the saying. Well, such a phenomenon might help Belfast's new lord mayor who is this week defending his decisio...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Viva, eh, Two-Mile-Borris
Move over Las Vegas! Take a hike down your own boardwalk Atlantic City! Two-Mile-Borris is getting into the game. An Bord Pleanála, the Irish plann...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Why are we still in these places?
Who will be the last one to die? How long now since John Kerry, a decorated hero, asked that question in relation to the Vietnam War as it lurched ...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Hearing it from all sides
Welcome to politics young man. Sinn Féin's recently elected lord mayor of Belfast, Niall Ó Donnghaile, more lad than lord by the look of various ph...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Around Ireland
OFFALY COP REACHES TOP OF MT. EVEREST Fifty-eight-year-old Martin Byrne is back in his native South Offaly, after becoming the first member of An G...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Cameron urges shared future
The British Prime Minister has told MLAs at Stormont that Northern Ireland needs a "shared future, not a shared out future." David Cameron was spea...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff