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New faces in SF lineup at Stormont
Sinn Féin have made sweeping changes to their executive team at Stormont following the recent assembly election. The party has decided to keep the ...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Marian Price is sent back to prison
A 57-year-old Belfast woman convicted of bombing the Old Bailey in London nearly 40 years ago has been sent back to prison in Northern Ireland. The...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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The troubling rise in Autism
My father always blamed it on an unacknowledged accident at a nuclear plant in Wales. He didn't make a big deal about it, just occasionally muttere...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Meanwhile, across the Rio Atlantic
Quick, somebody start punching keys and find out if Eva Longoria has any Irish roots. The actress was one of a group of what The Hill newspaper des...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Chicago bids farewell to an Irish dynasty
As of this week Chicago is not being run by a man named Daley. As Irish American political stories go, that's right up there with no elected Kenned...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Government accused of burdening the poor
The Irish government's "flawed analysis" and "faulty logic" have resulted in poor people being left to suffer a "hugely unfair proportion" of the b...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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U.S. denies favoring Irish banks
The U.S. has denied a claim by a leading Irish economist that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had "torpedoed" a plan to allow Ireland to write-...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Rooted in Irish soil
When the President of the United States travels to Ireland on a state visit this week, the highlight of his trip won’t be addressing the Dáil, disc...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Byrne is hands-on as cultural ambassador
"We found what we didn't expect and didn't find what we expected." So said Gabriel Byrne recently of his experience working as a young archeologist...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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I'm human, I make mistakes: Calhoun
The NCAA Men's Basketball champions, the University of Connecticut Huskies, took over the White House for a few hours this week. Lead by head coach...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Queen lands
History was made Tuesday when for the first time a reigning British sovereign stepped onto Irish soil at the invitation of a sovereign Irish govern...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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In Belfast, a first ever nationalist majority
The trend in the North's Assembly election was mirrored in the council poll which was still being counted on Tuesday evening. With several seats st...
May 11, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff