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Clinton set for another North visit
[caption id="attachment_70574" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Clinton invited to North."][/caption] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wil...
March 28, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Scanners may be used on prisoners
Northern Ireland's Justice Minister, David Ford, is planning to use full body imaging scanners in a bid to end a prison protest by dissident republ...
March 28, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Obama, Kenny remarks at White House ceremony
[caption id="attachment_70569" align="alignright" width="600" caption="That shamrock moment. "][/caption] This is an edited version of remarks by P...
March 28, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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New IFI bid
[caption id="attachment_70498" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Congressman Peter King, a key IFI supporter, with Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Washingto...
March 28, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Kenny lauded
[caption id="attachment_70470" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Old friends by now. Taoiseach Enda Kenny and President Barack Obama meeting...
March 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Signs of movement in E-3 visa effort
Smiles are better than frowns: E-3 campaigners met with Senator Scott Brown (second from left) last week. There were clear signs of movement this w...
March 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Biden welcomes Kenny at start of big D.C. day
[caption id="attachment_70464" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The taoiseach meets with Rep. Peter King, chairman of the house Homeland Se...
March 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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North celebrates St. Patrick's Day
Rory McIlroy was high profile at the Belfast parade. Tens of thousands of people have taken part in St. Patrick's Day parades across Northern Irela...
March 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Man died on hospital trolley
An elderly man died unnoticed after lying on a trolley for 22 hours in the Accident & Emergency unit of Belfast's busiest hospital. The man was dis...
March 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Man dies from freak fall
A Derry man died after a "freak" fall outside his home on the Channel Islands. Michael Stewart, 30, who was originally from the Brandywell area of ...
March 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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It's time to shake the sacrosanct tree
[caption id="attachment_70454" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Mitt Romney."][/caption] Sometimes it seems that things are so carved in st...
March 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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McAllister family gets another year
Senator Bob Menendez. Malachy McAllister and his family have been granted another year's relief from deportation, this after the intervention of Ne...
March 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff