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Senator Billy Lawless couldn't vote in Senate election
Senator Billy Lawless (back row, center) with fellow senators in a 2017 photo. RollingNews.ie photo. By Irish Echo Staff Senator Billy Lawless want...
April 01, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Friends recall ‘hospitable,’ ‘generous’ teacher Murphy
Dennis and Martha Murphy got married in 2019. By Peter McDermott A Yonkers family is mourning its Kilkenny City-born husband and father following a...
March 31, 2020
by Peter McDermott
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Rush Hour, Dublin, March 31, 2020
Dublin traffic is notorious but this was how things looked during the "rush hour" Tuesday. The Covid-19 crisis has led to a dramatic reduction in a...
March 31, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Ambassador Mulhall says J1s should head home
Ambassador Dan Mulhall. Photo by Marty Katz. By Irish Echo Staff The Irish Ambassador to the U.S., Dan Mulhall, has stated that Irish J1 Visa holde...
March 31, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Promote Pence, boycott Trump
President Ronald Reagan with future Vice President Mike Pence at the White House in 1988. Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott The Pence family w...
March 31, 2020
by Peter McDermott
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No ordinary day
This looks like an ordinary scene, a cyclist on the seafront in Skerries in north County Dublin. But it is in no ordinary time. Ireland, all of it,...
March 30, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Rights attorney Niall Murphy in virus caused medical coma
Niall Murphy speaking at an event in New York City last April hosted by New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli. By Ray O'Hanlon Northern Ireland c...
March 29, 2020
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Mourning Uncle Felix from afar amid Coronavirus
Leitrim's Felix McGowan in his American West prime By Dan Dennehy My uncle, Felix McGowan, my Mom’s brother, passed away on St. Patrick's night at ...
March 27, 2020
by Dan Dennehy
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Dublin is virtually deserted
Molly Malone would have little trouble wheeling her wheel barrow through Dublin's streets broad and narrow during these days of Coronavirus. This p...
March 27, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Death of architect Michael Sorkin
Michael Sorkin Máirtín Ó Muilleoir The death has taken place of revered New York architect and Belfast ally Michael Sorkin. Michael passed away on ...
March 27, 2020
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
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We're now fighting a common enemy
Face masks were once symbolic of divisions in Belfast. Now they symbolize a unified purpose By Máirtín Ó Muilleoir We have been here before. Or at ...
March 27, 2020
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
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Getting them home
Stranded Irish are being flown home even as airlines around the world are grounding their fleets. RollingNews.ie photo. By Irish Echo Staff As is t...
March 26, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff