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Irish Echo Digital Edition subscription prices

Beginning with the April 28, 2010 issue, the digital edition will be available by subscription. With our state-of-the-art digital subscription, you’ll have instant access to all the latest news from across Irish America — at the touch of a button. You can also access our digital archives, which date back to 2007. Preview the digital [...]

Published by admin on April 22nd, 2010 at 10:04 am
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Waterford action a test case

By Alana Fearon Ten former employees of Waterford Crystal have brought a legal action against the government in an action which will have significant implications for the pension entitlements of all workers in the Republic in circumstances of employer insolvency. The workers have been told they will receive between just 20 and 36 percent of [...]

Published by admin on April 21st, 2010 at 07:04 am
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U.S. backing for Derry bid

By Irish Echo Staff The U.S. economic envoy to Northern Ireland, Declan Kelly, has announced that his office is directly involved in Derry’s bid to become “U.K. City of Culture” in 2013. “We have been working closely with the local bid team in the past several weeks to ensure that we provide all possible help [...]

Published by admin on April 21st, 2010 at 07:04 am
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New minister’s Midwest mission

By Irish Echo Staff The battle to woo new investment into Ireland never ceases and the latest to take up the challenge in the Irish government’s newly appointed Enterprise, Trade and Innovation minister, Batt O’Keeffe. O’Keeffe, accompanied by Industrial Development Authority chief executive Barry O’Leary, recently met with representatives of 15 companies based in the [...]

Published by admin on April 14th, 2010 at 09:04 am
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Wheels-o-the wisp

Get a hold of that car fast or there might not be one for you in the lot. Ireland’s largest car rental company, Limerick-based Dan Dooley Car Rentals, has warned that a severe shortage of cars in the rental fleet across Ireland could cost the island’s tourism industry over €200 million this year. A recent [...]

Published by admin on April 7th, 2010 at 01:04 pm
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Kelly greets AIF pledge

U.S. Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland, Declan Kelly, has welcomed the announcement by the American Ireland Fund of its intention to seek to raise $1 million over the next three years for a new endowment to support the Northern Ireland Science Park CONNECT program. The initiative is in support of the envoy’s economic mission in [...]

Published by admin on April 7th, 2010 at 01:04 pm
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Rush for bargain apartments

A Westmeath apartment development has bucked Ireland’s property slump and attracted queues of interested buyers. In scenes not seen since before the sensational property market crash, more than 1,000 mostly first-time buyers recently lined up outside a new apartment block at Irishtown in Mullingar, County Westmeath in the hope of snapping up one of the [...]

Published by admin on April 7th, 2010 at 01:04 pm