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By Peter McDermott Jdimytai Damour's death at a Black Friday sale at the Walmart in Valley Stream, N.Y., shocked a nation But to Nassau County Dist...

By Susan Falvella Garraty Gregory Grene is back in the U.S. after a trip to Haiti where his identical twin, Andrew, was killed in January's devasta...

By Ray O'Hanlon She broke new ground even as she famously walked it. Dorothy Hayden Cudahy, the first ever woman grand marshal of the New York St. ...

By Peter McDermott PHOTO BY PETER MCDERMOTT The Rev. Peter Meehan can look with satisfaction at the green scrim that's draped over the scaffolding ...

By Ray O'Hanlon The body of a missing 30-year-old Dublin man was found last Saturday on the shore of an offshore island in Long Island sound, six d...

By Ray O'Hanlon Mom was home, Mairead was out enjoying the summer. Dad was out in his truck. It was a happy, normal day in the life of a family. Th...

By Ray O'Hanlon There were emotional scenes at Kennedy Airport Tuesday when Pearl River's Joe Byrne was reunited with his wife and daughter, this a...

By Ray O'Hanlon Forget the World Cup. Those guys got paid no matter what the result. But no amount of quarters in his piggy bank will convince Cona...

By Peter McDermott Hurling, Gaelic football, golf, soccer, rugby...lacrosse? If you think that the famous Native American game isn't on the Irish s...

By Ray O'Hanlon rohanlon@rishecho.com Get ready for the pitter patter. No, strike that. Get ready for the thunder of shiny new cleats, and the clas...

By Peter McDermott Thomas E. Kennedy decided at age 17 that when he was older he should be a writer. Now at 66, with 11 published novels to his nam...

By Ray O'Hanlon With unemployment in Ireland at record levels and the traditional emigration route to America largely blocked, there was an added s...