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Consumer confidence rises in North
Improvements in finances along with greater expectations for saving and spending are credited for the rise since September 2008, the Northern Bank ...
February 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Hi and bye
What hope do we draw from coming March, the month of shamrock and St. Patrick, those Ides so fatal to Gaius Julius Caesar, the return of daylight s...
February 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Anywhere but
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District is more than able to handle such a trial, and we have no doubt that a reliable and competent jury...
February 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Blurred, but not forgettable
If Samuel Beckett had written a relentless monodrama about a quartet of elderly Dubliners, three of them, Flor, Dora and Eucharia, female, and the ...
February 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Dickens for our times
The program for the Pearl Theatre Company's graceful production of Charles Dickens' "Hard Times" gives the show a parenthetical subtitle the great ...
February 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Duo are an ideal musical match
It was clear that those songs tapped into the frustration and anger simmering in the audience from the past nine years of political paralysis, cont...
February 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Quinn, Moloney to perform at Tenement Musuem event
They will be joined on stage by "Rats" author Robert Sullivan for their musical history entitled: "If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews." The NY...
February 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Finnegan directs home away from home
The New York Irish Center is a half-minute walk from Jackson Avenue/Vernon Avenue, the first subway stop east of Grand Central and it is adjacent t...
February 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Belfast's Cinemagic on road in NYC, L.A.
Cinemagic will be working in partnership with a number of arts and media organisations that include Sesame Workshop, the producers behind Sesame St...
February 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Soldier-pol Haig dead at 85
Haig joined the United States Military Academy after studying for two years at the University of Notre Dame and later served in Korea and Vietnam. ...
February 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Fields of dreams
Club Tyrone's Hugh McAleer and the county's progressive All Ireland-winning manager Mickey Harte will speak to an invited group at the Blue Bell In...
February 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Line of Ma...
A move by New York City aimed at cutting the time and marching distance of the city's parades looks set to cut directly across the ambitious plans ...
February 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff