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New job for Varadkar
President Michael D Higgins presents former taoiseach Leo Varadkar with his new seal of office as Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise Trade and Em...
June 29, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Micheál Martin is the new Taoiseach
Micheál Martin will lead the new three party Irish governing coalition. RollingNews.ie photo. By Irish Echo Staff After members of three parties, F...
June 29, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Counting the party votes
The votes of Fianna Fáil party members are here being counted in a Dublin hotel. The process is part of the polling of members of Fianna Fáil, Fine...
June 26, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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'Irish Lives Matter' shirts arouse ire
This t-shirt and other tasteless versions are arousing a furious backlash By Irish Echo Staff Talk about bad timing and appalling taste. The Ancien...
June 26, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Social distancing wilts in the heat
Ireland is experiencing the hottest weather of the year thus far with temperatures in some places reaching into the 80s. As has been evident in the...
June 25, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Hibernians laud Irish UN win
The United Nations Security Council chamber By Irish Echo Staff The Ancient Order of Hibernians has congratulated Ireland on its election to the Un...
June 25, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Covid briefing in an appropriate setting
This sort of gathering is no longer taking place in the White House but here, Irish Health Services Executive CEO, Paul Reid, speaks to socially di...
June 24, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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EU poised to block travel from U.S.
The 27 member states of the European Union By Irish Echo Staff The European Union is poised to block travel into the bloc by Americans, this as a r...
June 24, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Second general election is possible
To the country again? Tánaiste Simon Coveney (left) and pictured with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, has warned that a failure to agree to a three-party g...
June 23, 2020
by Anthony Neeson
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Midsummer night's dreamy glow
This photo was taken by a Garda air patrol over Dublin at fifteen minutes to midnight on Sunday, the longest day of the year. The horizon is not co...
June 22, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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The lady in the aisle seat
Jean Kennedy Smith with journalist and author Tim Pat Coogan in 1998. RollingNews.ie photo. By Ray O'Hanlon I was happy. I had landed an aisle seat...
June 22, 2020
by Ray O'Hanlon
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A light at the end of Covid tunnel
The historic Hook Lighthouse in County Wexford is set to reopen to visitors on June 29 as Covid-19 restrictions are slowly lifted in Ireland. There...
June 19, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff