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Brigid relic eludes thieves
It's Saint Brigid's Day and it may well have been intervention from the saint herself which ensured the safety of a St. Brigid relic that is held b...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Nast will have to wait for another year
[caption id="attachment_69563" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Thomas Nast."][/caption] Looks like Thomas Nast will have to wait for anoth...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Ruling goes against archive compilers
A federal judge in Massachusetts last week ruled that the two journalists who compiled the Boston College Troubles archive did not have legal stand...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Groundbreaker as Robinson sees GAA game
[caption id="attachment_69558" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="GAA Director General Pauric Duffy chats to First Minister Peter Robinson du...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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More disharmony in unionism
Another week and another crisis within the Ulster Unionist Party. One of the party's leading lights, David McNarry, has quit the assembly party aft...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Let sane heads prevail
Can't you just feel it coming? The loonies are on the loose again. Let's go in and sort out Iran! Have they learned nothing? Meanwhile, the mullahs...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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A benediction for Newt
[caption id="attachment_69551" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Newt Gingrich."][/caption] Fr. Sean McManus is standing up for New Gingrich...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Irish gather anew for Millrose meet
[caption id="attachment_69548" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The "chairman" returns to the Millrose Games."][/caption] As famous running...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Pardon in works for WWII soldiers
[caption id="attachment_69545" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Defense minister Alan Shatter."][/caption] The Irish government is now seri...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Durkan street proposal for council
With the required formal second approval by a Bronx community board secured all that is needed now for the naming of a street near Gaelic Park in t...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Derry to host fleadh after all
[caption id="attachment_69540" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Martina Anderson predicting "massive" revenue boost."][/caption] Derry will...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Student takes on power of social media
An Irish student falsely accused of not paying a taxi fare in an internet video is trying to have the chief executive of YouTube jailed for contemp...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff