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NY group gathering to commemorate First Dáil
Mary Courtney will be performing at the January 21 gathering in O’Lunney’s By Irish Echo Staff Members of the New York Irish community are poised t...
January 17, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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First Dáil coin
A replica of one of the 1,000 gold coins that will be on sale from collectorcoins.ie, each selling for €889 to mark 100 years of the first Dáil. SA...
January 16, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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Varadkar: we can't shift on 'no hard border'
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. ROLLING NEWS. IE By Anthony Neeson Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says the Irish government are implementing plans for a ‘no-deal’ ...
January 16, 2019
by Anthony Neeson
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Irish government bracing for British Brexit vote
Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker meeting last month. RollingNews.ie photo. By Anthony Neeson As British Prime Minister Theresa May stared down t...
January 15, 2019
by Anthony Neeson
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Inquest hears of U-turn road tragedy
Police Officer Steven Alexander. Bolingbrook Police Department photo By Anthony Neeson An inquest has heard that four Americans from the same famil...
January 11, 2019
by Anthony Neeson
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Buffalo community rallies behind GAA pitch plan
New York State Senator Tim Kennedy (right) with Paul Mulcaire pictured at the Fenian Invasion of Canada Monument in Buffalo By Irish Echo Staff Amb...
January 11, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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Press Club Nixes Nast
Thomas Nast was a master of caricature, this one of himself being an example By Ray O’Hanlon Chalk one up for the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The ...
January 09, 2019
by Ray O'Hanlon
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New York Brehons offering Belfast internship
The late Jim Cullen. Photo by Simon Carswell, Irish Times. By Irish Echo Staff The Brehon Law Society of New York and leading Belfast-based human r...
January 08, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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New cultural ambassadors
Josepha Madigan, Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, today announced five new Cultural Ambassadors under the Irish government’s Globa...
January 07, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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A deal’s a deal says Varadkar
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Chancellor Angela Merkel. RollingNews.ie photo By Anthony Neeson Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has insisted that the current EU...
January 07, 2019
by Anthony Neeson
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Engel takes House Foreign Affairs gavel
Congressman Eliot Engel, accompanied by his wife Pat, is sworn in earlier today as House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman by Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
January 04, 2019
by Ray O'Hanlon
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A green New Year
No snow, at least not yet. The Curragh in County Kildare is looking rather green in the opening days of 2019. RollingNews.ie photo.
January 03, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff