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Jesuit believes CIA files can unlock 27-year mystery

By Peter McDermott An American priest based in Nicaragua is asking President Obama and Democratic Party leaders to help solve a 27-year mystery – the fate of his fellow Jesuit, the Rev. James “Guadalupe” Carney. The Rev. Joseph Mulligan and Carney’s relatives believe that the blacked out pages of a 1990s Central Intelligence Agency report [...]

Published by admin on September 1st, 2010 at 09:09 am

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Aegis founder Spicer has not left the building

By Susan Falvella Garraty Earlier this month, Aegis Defense Services set up a non-operating holding company in Basel, Switzerland. Aegis has an estimated 20,000 employees involved in private security efforts around the world; it formed the new holding company in the neutral European nation’s more hospitable tax environment. Several media reports indicated Tim Spicer, the [...]

Published by admin on September 1st, 2010 at 09:09 am

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Ground Zero priest backs Park Place center

By Peter McDermott The pastor of New York’s oldest Catholic parish has given his backing to the controversial Islamic center at Park Place, citing the “inalienable right” to build. The Rev. Kevin Madigan, of St. Peter’s Church on Barclay Street at the edge of Ground Zero, said that people in the community were happy with [...]

Published by admin on August 25th, 2010 at 08:08 am

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Two more bodies unearthed at Duffy’s Cut

By Ray O’Hanlon It was murder, pure and simple. That was the verdict this week of Dr. William Watson, who has been leading the excavation of the Duffy’s Cut Irish immigrants site in Malvern, Pa. The site, which adjoins a present day commuter rail line, is the last resting place of an estimated 57 Irish [...]

Published by admin on August 18th, 2010 at 07:08 am

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Maureen O’Hara marks 90

By Ray O’Hanlon The first lady of Irish film celebrated her 90th birthday this week. Maureen O’Hara was surrounded by family and friends at her home in Glengarriff, Co. Cork, on Tuesday. The celebration was not only of the star’s long life, but a legacy that could soon be the centerpiece of a center in [...]

Published by admin on August 18th, 2010 at 07:08 am

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National profile precedes Rice’s state-wide campaign

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 District Attorney Kathleen Rice, the trampling of the 6-foot-5 security guard on Nov. 28, 2008, was more than a headline. It happened in her bailiwick and she was determined to [...]

Published by admin on August 18th, 2010 at 07:08 am

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In Andrew’s memory

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 devastating earthquake while working for the United Nations. The Grene family is originally from County Cavan although the brothers and their families have lived for many years in the New [...]

Published by admin on August 12th, 2010 at 07:08 am

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Dorothy Hayden Cudahy dead at 88

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. Patrick’s Day parade, died last weekend, aged 88. Hayden Cudahy made history in 1989 by leading the New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade up Fifth Avenue, thus ending [...]

Published by admin on August 11th, 2010 at 07:08 am

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Preservation work on Irish NYC gateway begins

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 at 7 State St. “Our project is moving,” he said Tuesday of the state-mandated preservation of the parish building at Manhattan’s southerly tip. As the Echo reported in 2009, the priest [...]

Published by admin on August 4th, 2010 at 09:08 am

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Body of Dublin man found

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 days after a violent squall hurled him into the sea. The body of Eoin Curran from Templeogue was found washed ashore on Huckleberry Island. Curran was taking a [...]

Published by admin on August 4th, 2010 at 08:08 am