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Hurricane Sandy
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Hurricane Sandy
The Irish Echo office is located in Lower Manhattan and has been without power since Hurricane Sandy struck on Monday. We hope to have the office o...
The mission begins
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The mission begins
"A grand affair." That's how Dan Murphy described the final commissioning of the U.S. Navy ship named after his hero son. The USS Michael Murphy is...
Death of Boston fiddler Larry Reynolds
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Death of Boston fiddler Larry Reynolds
Galway fiddler Larry Reynolds, widely credited for keeping Irish traditional music vibrant in greater Boston over the past sixty years, died last W...
Alisha's story
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Alisha's story
By Frieda Klotz Wearing jeans and a white aertex t-shirt with the FAI logo, Alisha Jordan looked a picture of health on a recent afternoon in the B...
Tribunal to shed light on Famine
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Tribunal to shed light on Famine
By Ray O'Hanlon A fundraiser in support of the upcoming "Famine Tribunal" at Fordham Law School is set for this coming Saturday, September 29, at H...
Ministers in NY for UN, Gathering
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Ministers in NY for UN, Gathering
By Ray O'Hanlon Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and tourism minister Leo Varadkar are in New York this week to formally launch "The Gathering," the year-lon...
labor honored
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labor honored
Addressing the annual Irish Labor 50 awards night Monday, LIUNA General President, Terry O'Sullivan, said the honorees "reflect and embody the grea...
Cruise to recall Corridan, waterfront history
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Cruise to recall Corridan, waterfront history
By Irish Echo Staff The life of John Corridan, the Jesuit priest who campaigned for New York’s longshoremen in post-war New York, will be at rememb...
United behind council's big golf day
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United behind council's big golf day
[caption id="attachment_73456" align="alignnone" width="600"] The Ireland-U.S. Council's recent Golf Day in Ireland was held at Dun Laoghaire Golf ...
Songs to remember hard times by
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Songs to remember hard times by
Talk about 40 Shades of Grey! History's tints are legion and encompass every color in the spectrum. And yet we often speak of the past as though et...
If you build it...
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If you build it...
The GAA has announced that the firm Mott MacDonald, who have built some the world's leading sports arenas, including the Aviva Stadium in Dublin an...
Funeral prompts dissident crackdown
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Funeral prompts dissident crackdown
A dissident republican paramilitary-style funeral has prompted garda to announce a crackdown on terrorist groups such as the Real IRA. The move fol...

 



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