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Player slams GAA over violence
The Gaelic footballer who ended up in a coma after being struck off the ball during a game in San Francisco last June has hit out at the GAA over i...
January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Secret contacts during '81 hunger strikes
[caption id="attachment_68980" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Joe McDonnell."][/caption] British state papers released under the 30 year ...
January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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In SDLP, sharing is caring
It may not be the biggest reshuffle in political history but new SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell has announced plans to change his party's only Exec...
January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Judge rules test for teen
A Turkish judge has ruled that the teenager accused of the murder of two Northern Ireland women in Turkey last year will have to have a bone marrow...
January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Steady as we go into 2012
Hey, you GOP members, help a brother out! I know you read The Echo. After all, Irish-America has vastly changed since: "Pat Murphy couldn't have tu...
January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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It isn't all that bad, really
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January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Around Ireland
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January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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’26 Census campaign hits bureaucratic resistance
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January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Where did all the documents go?
“For a literary nation priding itself on such manuscript gems as the Book of Kells and the Annals of the Four Masters,” wrote leading genealogist S...
January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Echoes of 2011
[caption id="attachment_68939" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Rory McIlroy's triumph in June."][/caption] JANUARY It was not a quiet open...
January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Ireland on target, as United, City lose
Last Friday on the eve of his 70th birthday, Manchester United’s Scottish-born manager Alex Ferguson said he would carry on for another three years...
January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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On hold
[caption id="attachment_68794" align="aligncenter" width="600"] An escalating legal battle is this week swirling around Burns Library, home of the ...
January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff