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At 107, Mae is queen of March
[caption id="attachment_70328" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Mae Collins."][/caption] Mae Collins will mark 107 St. Patrick's days this ...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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One down as pols protest
Miss "Irish I Were Drunk" has taken her leave from the Urban Outfitters website. Unwittingly, the young model in the provocative t-shirt had become...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Parade to honor military, and hero Murphy
Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient, Michael Murphy. With a fair weather forecast for Saturday's New York St. Patrick's Day Parade, all things look...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Downes takes his leave
Larry Downes, since the group's founding in 1995 the president of the Friends of Sinn Féin in the U.S., has stepped down from the post and will be ...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Irish couple to lead Phoenix Parade
[caption id="attachment_70317" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Lucy Artt and Seamus McCaffrey will lead Phoenix parade this Saturday."][/c...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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North set for many parades
Thousands of people are expected in Belfast city center on Saturday to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Lord Mayor of Belfast, Niall Ó Donnghaile, said...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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All shades were unlucky for Parnell
He was the most famous Irishman of his era and yet he abhorred the color green, considered it the height of bad luck, and blanched at the many gift...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Kenny, Cameron sign agreement
Kenny is D.C. bound. The outline for the next decade of Anglo-Irish relations has been agreed in London this week during a meeting between Taoiseac...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Hill colleagues salute Congressman Donald Payne
[caption id="attachment_70138" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Congressman Donald Payne."][/caption] Irish American political leaders have...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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New Orleans, the Year of Our Lord 2012
By Megan O'Sullivan New Orleans --- It wasn't a beautiful New Orleans Ash Wednesday morning at The Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis King of France, ...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Bundoran's red light beach
[caption id="attachment_70300" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Bangkok? Eh, no, it's Bundoran."][/caption] Gardai in County Donegal are in...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Undercover soldiers were at murder scene
A report has found that nine undercover British soldiers were at the scene of a sectarian killing in County Armagh 22 years ago. Three republicans ...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff