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Pete is top choice
[caption id="attachment_68896" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Journalist and author Pete Hamill is the Echo's Irish American of the Year....
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Queen's speech did focus on Ireland-U.S. Council
[caption id="attachment_68892" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Queen Elizabeth spoke of her visit earlier this year to the Garden of Remem...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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What happens in Vegas, eh...
[caption id="attachment_68887" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="O'Connor performing in September."][/caption] Sinead O'Connor is undercutti...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Teen charged in Boston murder of Irish Immigrant
BOSTON --- The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office has charged a Dorchester teen with the murder of Aran Islands native Ciaran O Conghaile, w...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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O'Hara tries for pardon again
Attorney John O'Hara has been at this point before. The year is almost over and he is seeking a pardon from the sitting governor of New York for hi...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Lining up to learn Irish
[caption id="attachment_68878" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Culture Minister Carál Ní Chuilín."][/caption] There might be grumbling fro...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Row over ex-RUC hires
[caption id="attachment_68874" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Gerry Kelly."][/caption] A furious row is brewing over policing in Northern...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Quits over women priest bar
[caption id="attachment_68870" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Olivia O'Leary."][/caption] A VETERAN Irish broadcast journalist has public...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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McGlinchey named in murder trial
The son of Irish National liberation Army leader Dominic McGlinchey was the getaway driver in the Massereene barracks killings, a court has been to...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Lining up for Titanic again
[caption id="attachment_68860" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption=" The new Titanic building."][/caption] They lined up for tickets in 1912, a...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Airports under scrutiny
Ireland is especially airport conscious this time of year, but potentially radical plans are being studied to ensure the viability of the Republic'...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Dueling bills
[caption id="attachment_68816" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Senator Scott Brown.[/caption] Two bills that offer extended non-immigrant visas to...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff