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Texas visitors chart peace progress
On a whistle-stop tour to West Belfast, the sun came out at Clonard Monastery to welcome a student delegation from Houston, Texas, who were on the ...
July 07, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Tabloid greats wrote about ordinary ‘ruck’ of life
Breslin is back at the Daily News and Pete Hamill has a new book out that everybody is talking about, "Tabloid City." And that's good news, but sad...
July 07, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Pro Bono
Adam Bevell has fulfilled his wildest dream: playing on stage with U2. He did so in Nashville, Tennessee on the 4th of July weekend after being spo...
July 06, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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West Point bound
It's a long family story, but right now Gavin Maher is thinking about how short his summer break is going to be. That's because the Rockland County...
June 30, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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"Disappeared" body found in grave
The exhumation of a body in County Monaghan on Tuesday is linked to the cases of the "disappeared" it has been confirmed. The Independent Commissio...
June 30, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Remains 9th or 19th century?
Ancient skeletal remains, which local historians believe could date back to ninth century Viking invaders, have been discovered on a farmland in Co...
June 30, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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More Irish emerging in diversity visa snafu
A growing number of Irish applicants who applied for diversity visas only to have their hopes dashed by a State Department computer glitch are step...
June 30, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Walsh marks music site's first year
Fiona Walsh will celebrate the first anniversary of her accidental career this Friday night and Saturday morning. It has its roots in a writing ass...
June 30, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Large turn out for McManus book launch
A large crowd turned out under stormy skies last Thursday evening in Manhattan for the New York launch of the memoir "My American Struggle for Just...
June 30, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Recession's silver lining is less drug use
Maybe the recession isn't all bad. Police in the Republic have revealed that drug seizures have plummeted to a near 15-year low and are now back at...
June 30, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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New drug for Cystic Fibrosis
Scientists at Queen's University in Belfast have developed a new drug for Cystic Fibrosis suffers by targeting the so-called Celtic gene, which is ...
June 30, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Whitey trail stretches all the way to Ireland?
Okay, it was Santa Monica not Santa Sligo or the like but the Whitey Bulger saga may well throw up a few Irish surprises given that he was quite po...
June 30, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff