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She’s a lady
She was a lady and she had one tough life before it reached its all too premature end. The woman whose remains were recently unearthed at the Duffy...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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A big night for small business
There was a full house at Rosie O’Grady’s Manhattan Club last Friday evening for the Irish Echo’s inaugural Top 50 Irish Small Business Awards.Fift...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Conlon's seed money making hedge funds grow
By Ray O'Hanlon Brian Conlon's story is a business version of Jack and the Beanstalk. From an initial seed capital investment of £5000, Conlon has ...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Spoils shared in entertaining, sporting contest
In the opening junior game of the knock-out competition, both teams finished all square after a very a sporting contest. John McArdle had the openi...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
TV channel should be high on GAA agenda
I have a dream. I want to wake up in the morning and turn on the television and kill half an hour watching a Gaelic football match from the 1980s, ...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Huet, Sheehan score track victories
Stony Brook's Laura Huet won the women's 3,000 meters at Saturday's Rutgers Invitational in Piscataway, N.J. The senior from Carrickmines, Co. Dubl...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Moving target Adamek proves too fast for McBride
Kevin McBride was left pondering retirement after a lop-sided loss to fleet-footed Polish heavyweight Tomasz Adamek at the Prudential Center in New...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Rocks Over-30s go into short break unbeaten
Shamrock's unbeaten Over-30s go into a three-week break atop the Div. II log after a hard fought 2-2 tie with Manhattan Celtic in last Sunday's lat...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Derby duo come up short in Santa Anita
The Kentucky Derby picture has been thrown wide open with Uncle Mo's defeat in Saturday's Wood Memorial at Aqueduct. On the West Coast, neither Sil...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
United get by with a little help from their 'friends'
On March 1 Chelsea beat Manchester United 2-1 then 5 days later Liverpool followed up with an emphatic 3-1 victory over the Red Devils. But it's Un...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Congress needs to be reduced, extended: Duffy
We don't know how many candidates there were when Maurice Davin was elected the first GAA president in 1884, but next weekend will be the first tim...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Wreckage could contain Irish remains
The remains of two Irish doctors who perished when their Air France plane crashed in the Atlantic in 2009 could be among those spotted in wreckage ...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Queen visit begins to take shape
Details of next month's visit to Ireland by Queen Elizabath are beginning to take firm shape this week. The queen will attend a state dinner in Dub...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Kavanagh files suit against accuser
A defrocked monsignor has filed a defamation suit against the former seminarian whose abuse allegations led to his ouster from the Catholic clergy ...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Ad Hoc chairs add voice
The condemnation by Irish American and Washington politicians of the murder in Northern Ireland of PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr has been reinforced by...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff