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Irish government aiming to reduce barriers for returning emigrants
Ciaran Staunton testifying at a Dáil committee hearing into the issue of barriers faced by returning emigrants. By Ray O’Hanlon You might not think...
August 30, 2017
by Ray O'Hanlon
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O’Donnell, stars to sing in aid of flood recovery
Daniel O’Donnell is organizing a benefit concert after northwest floods. RollingNews.ie photo. By Evan Short Parts of the north-west of Ireland are...
August 29, 2017
by Evan Short
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Cancer battling Carlow teen reaches Houston hospital
Shauntelle Tynan By Irish Echo Staff As Houston continued to suffer a pummeling from Hurricane Harvey, a 19-year-old County Carlow teenager battlin...
August 28, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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Indianapolis discovery raises memory of both a tragedy and an injustice
The USS Indianapolis about three weeks before its sinking By Ray O’Hanlon The discovery of the USS Indianapolis at the bottom of the Philippine Sea...
August 28, 2017
by Ray O'Hanlon
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More rain after devastating Donegal floods
A section of roadway in Donegal washed away by record rainfall By Irish Echo Staff Even by West of Ireland standards this was a deluge, variously d...
August 25, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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Writer who dissed Ireland quits job
Rathkeale, County Limerick By Evan Short The journalist behind a bizarre column that branded Ireland a “land of puppy farms, dingy bars, drug mule ...
August 25, 2017
by Evan Short
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Tommy Smyth offers a bag full of stories
Tommy Smyth By Max O’Neill Tommy Smyth is a man that has done what he loves for the last 50 plus years and doesn’t care what any of the trolls have...
August 25, 2017
by Max O'Neill
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Study break
Garda Philip O’Byrne, left, and Garda John Barrett being introduced by Professor Bettina Murray at the reception in their honor at John Jay College...
August 25, 2017
by Peter McDermott
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The joys of newly discovering Old Havana
A street scene in Old Havana with the Capitolio in the background By Bill Hughes Try forty-three minutes! This is the time it took for our chartere...
August 24, 2017
by Bill Hughes
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Death of former IRA man and author Sean O’Callaghan
Sean O’Callaghan in a 2012 RTE interview photo By Irish Echo Staff Sean O’Callaghan, a onetime IRA member who became an informer, and then wrote ab...
August 24, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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Senators alerted to MacBride threat
All U.S. senators have been alerted by the Irish National Caucus about a threat to the MacBride Principles contained in the Financial Choice Act By...
August 24, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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North war of words
Michelle O'Neill of Sinn Féin. ROLLINGNEWS. IE By Evan Short A new war of words has broken out between Sinn Féin and the DUP after the republican p...
August 23, 2017
by Evan Short