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A senator for the overseas Irish
Billy Lawless. By Ray O’Hanlon rohanlon@irishecho.com It and more has been promised by various Irish political parties for years. Now Taoiseach End...
May 31, 2016
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Call him Dr. Adrian
Dr. to Dr. Quinnipiac University President Dr. John Lahey, Adrian Flannelly, and Mark Thompson, the university’s executive vice president and provo...
May 27, 2016
by Irish Echo Staff
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Connla McCann takes helm as Echo publisher
Connla McCann The Irish Echo is announcing and welcomes the appointment of its new publisher, Connla McCann, who succeeds Máirtín Ó Muilleoir in th...
May 26, 2016
by Irish Echo Staff
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Ó Muilleoir is new North finance minister
Martin McGuinness with his new Sinn Féin ministerial colleagues Chris Hazzard, Megan Fearon, Michelle O’Neill and Máirtín Ó Muilleoir. By Ray O’Han...
May 25, 2016
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Harmony North performs in D.C.
The Harmony North choir By Evan Short A choir made up of young people from schools in a troubled part of Belfast performed in Washington D.C. last ...
May 24, 2016
by Evan Short
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McHugh is new diaspora minister
Joe McHugh when he was a member of the Irish Senate, Seanad Eireann. RollingNews.ie photo. By Ray O’Hanlon rohanlon@irishecho.com The former main v...
May 20, 2016
by Ray O'Hanlon
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An Irish Oak on an American hill
Do Ireland proud. Taoiseach Enda Kenny inspects the just planted Irish Oak on Capitol Hill. Photo by Marty Katz. By Irish Echo Staff Presumably, it...
May 19, 2016
by Irish Echo Staff
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Ireland 100 festival offers best of Irish
Vice President Biden and Taoiseach Enda Kenny at Tuesday’s Ireland 100 opening gala. Photo by Marty Katz. By Irish Echo Staff Three weeks of the be...
May 18, 2016
by Irish Echo Staff
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Kenny vows to go the distance
I’m here for the duration: Enda Kenny with some of his Senate and Dáil colleagues has vowed to serve a full term. RollingNews.ie photo. By Evan Sho...
May 17, 2016
by Evan Short
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Biden, Kenny for D.C. opening of IRELAND 100
Enda Kenny is on his way to Washington, D.C. By Irish Echo Staff Vice President Joe Biden and Taoiseach Enda Kenny are expected to attend tomorrow ...
May 16, 2016
by Irish Echo Staff
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The bishops’ balancing act
Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott The aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising presented the hierarchy of the Catholic Church with an increasingly...
May 13, 2016
by Peter McDermott
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A happy day for Sister Ita
Sister Ita on her recent 97th birthday. By Kenneth Hesselbacher It is springtime at the Cloisters and on May 22 this magnificent building, situated...
May 13, 2016
by Kenneth Hesselbacher