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Beautiful game in the rain
The Shamrocks held their annual all-day 6-a-side soccer tournament on Sunday in Sunnyside Gardens Park, Queens, New York City, and it was adjudged ...
August 21, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff
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Nassau Hibs plan festival for Nickerson Beach
Irish dancing, as seen here in this photo from last year’s festival, will be featured again in this year’s gathering. Photo by John O’Connell By Ir...
August 20, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff
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2018 Irish Labor 10
[caption id="attachment_96422" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 2018 Irish Labor LeaderThomas A CallahanPresident and Business Manager IUOE Local 1...
August 20, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff
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A packed St. Patrick’s bids farewell to Tom Moran
The cover of the funeral Mass program for Tom Moran By Ray O’Hanlon On a hot and humid mid-August day they packed into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in M...
August 17, 2018
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Wake and funeral Mass for Tom Moran
Tom Moran Family, friends and colleagues of Tom Moran are gathering today for his wake in Manhattan. Mr. Moran, 65, passed away on Sunday, August 1...
August 16, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff
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A post-Brexit mile-deep Checkpoint Charlie
The post-Brexit border could include a mile deep stop and search zone. ROLLINGNEWS.IE By Anthony Neeson Nationalist politicians are reacting angril...
August 15, 2018
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Duffy’s will get its Cut
The new Duffy’s Cut beer will help fund the Duffy’s Cut dig By Ray O’Hanlon What those unfortunate railroad workers would have done for a few cold ...
August 14, 2018
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Death of Tom Moran, 65
Tom Moran in his role as Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast. Queen’s University photo. By Ray O’Hanlon Tom Moran, who exemplified the transat...
August 13, 2018
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Finally, a Bronx headstone for Patsy
Patsy Dougan’s passport. By Michael Jackson The grave of a Belfast IRA man, who shares a burial plot with two of his fellow countrymen in New York,...
August 10, 2018
by Michael Jackson
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‘Cut’ clock is ticking
Duffy’s cut is an unremarkable looking place – on the surface. It is believed that remains are buried under this ruined stone structure just yards ...
August 09, 2018
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Rory’s Regulations are working
Rory Staunton By Irish Echo Staff Rory’s Regulations, named after Rory Staunton, the 12-year-old Queens, New York boy who tragically died of sepsis...
August 08, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff
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Death of Ambassador Margaret Heckler, 87
Margaret Heckler pictured with Unionist politician John Taylor at the American Ireland Fund dinner in Washington, D.C. in March, 1998. Photocall ar...
August 07, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff