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Last post for Irish Post
The Irish Post newspaper, for over 40 years the leading flag flyer for the Irish in Britain, has gone to press for the last time. Reports in recent...
August 25, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Frisco club is furious over ban length
[caption id="attachment_66473" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Mark McGovern"][/caption] The Ulster Gaelic football club in San Francisco ...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Pataki eyes GOP field
[caption id="attachment_66470" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="George Pataki."][/caption] Former New York governor George Pataki is report...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Biden's nod to Celtic roots
[caption id="attachment_66467" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Vice President Biden "][/caption] He was a long way from Clare, and even fa...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Man charged in Turkey double murder
A man has been charged in connection with the murder of two women from the North who were on holiday in Turkey. Marion Graham and her friend Kathy ...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Calls for ombudsman's ouster
A victims' group in the North of Ireland has called for the police ombudsman to be dismissed from office. Relatives for Justice, based in Belfast, ...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Exhumed body not one of disappeared
A body exhumed from an Irish cemetery is not that of a teenage IRA victim who was murdered in 1975 and listed as one of "disappeared," forensic tes...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Saluting the ghosts in high spirits
I recently attended George Kimball's memorial gathering. I would hardly call it a service, for George bowed his head to Lady Luck alone, and then o...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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The end of Quartermaster Qaddafi
[caption id="attachment_66455" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Colonel Qadaffi in a less than jovial mood."][/caption] Interesting that Mu...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Boston bar denies race charges
BOSTON --- Massachusetts Attorney General, Martha Coakley, has filed a civil rights suit against a Dorchester pub, Peggy O'Neil's, for allegedly en...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Peter King praises Hugh Carey
Congressman Peter King has praised the life and work of former New York governor Hugh Carey, who died earlier this month. King, a Republican, prais...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Renewed pressure on Irish tax rate
Ireland's low corporate tax rate is fast becoming the republic's economic Alamo. The Irish government is coming under renewed pressure to give grou...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff