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Toronto Deputy Chief is Garda Deputy Commissioner
Shawna Coxon, Deputy Police Chief in Toronto, is packing her bags for Ireland after she was named to one of the two Deputy Commissioner posts in An...
February 10, 2021
by Irish Echo Staff
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Foreign Relations Chair Menendez Supports Envoy Appointment
Senator Bob Menendez By Ray O'Hanlon The prospects of the appointment of a U.S. envoy to the Northern Ireland peace and political process has been ...
February 10, 2021
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Frederick Douglass travels 'home' to Ireland
Frederick Douglass in the 1840s By James Brosnahan and Dan VanDeMortel In honor of February’s annual Black History month we celebrate the meaningfu...
February 10, 2021
by By James Brosnahan and Dan VanDeMortel
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Still A City Of Poets
A few lines for the times on a Dublin street. RollingNews.ie photo.
February 09, 2021
by Irish Echo Staff
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Cecelia “Cecily” Rohan (nee Kelly)
Cecelia “Cecily” Rohan (nee Kelly) Aug 8, 1944 – Feb 5, 2021 Cecelia Rohan (nee Kelly) passed away peacefully on February 5, 2021 in New York, afte...
February 08, 2021
by Irish Echo Staff
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Now It's a Covid Border
Gardai wearing face masks while checking cars at a checkpoint at Ravendale, County Louth which is just before the local border crossing point. Roll...
February 08, 2021
by Anthony Neeson
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An Appeal To Irish America's Heart and Soul
Sophie Colgan By Sophie Colgan I remember the first time I marched in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade up Fifth Avenue. It was a cold March 17th in 201...
February 04, 2021
by Sophie Colgan
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Kennedy back, on the ground and on air
Joe Kennedy III By Jim Smith BOSTON --- Although many observers of Massachusetts politics had assumed that former representative Joseph P. Kennedy ...
February 04, 2021
by Jim Smith
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New Digs For U.S. Diplomats
Pictured is the U.S. Embassy in Dublin today. According to the Irish Times, the embassy is preparing to buy the Ballsbridge Hotel, site of the old ...
February 04, 2021
by Irish Echo Staff
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Blinken Gets A Brexit Briefing
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken By Irish Echo Staff To say that newly confirmed Secretary of State Anthony of Blinken has a full in-basket would...
February 04, 2021
by Irish Echo Staff
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Jesuit calls out extremist rhetoric
The Rev. James Martin, S.J. Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott Three out of 10 Americans believe that abortion is permissible in all circumstan...
February 04, 2021
by Peter McDermott
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Another Day, Another Border Crisis
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is threatening to invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Border Protocol, in this case to remove the border...
February 03, 2021
by Anthony Neeson