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Dáil eyes controversial travel tax
The Dáil resumed work this week after its two-week Easter break. A forthcoming jobs initiative, provisionally scheduled to be announced on May 10, ...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Australia drowning victim flown home
The body of an Irishwoman who died while scuba-diving in Australia two weeks ago has been returned to Ireland. Elaine Morrow's remains arrived at D...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Bin Laden death is 'milestone' for 9/11 families
Families who lost loved ones in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have welcomed the attack on Osama bin Laden's compound and the death of th...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Kenny praises United States Bin Laden operation
Taoiseach Enda Kenny, who is in New York for two days this week, praised the U.S. military operation in Pakistan that ended the life of terror mast...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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McManus launches his memoirs in D.C.
The Washington and Baltimore area Irish community turned out in force last Sunday to mark the Washington launch of Fr. Sean Mc Manus' Memoirs, "My ...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Much at stake in North poll
Northern Ireland goes to the polls on Thursday with the electorate faced with three ballot papers. Not only are Assembly and council seats up for g...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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The seeds that Bobby Sands sowed
"They came from all over the city, down by subway from Inwood and the Bronx, over the bridges and through the tunnels from Queens and Brooklyn, or ...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Will Kenny nominate a diaspora senator?
Taoiseach Enda Kenny, in New York this week, is poised to nominate 11 members of Seanad Eireann. It has been suggested that one of them be a repres...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Forgotten cases recall Big Apple on knife-edge
T.J. English believes that New York needs to have a discussion about its not-too-distant past: specifically the 1960s and early '70s. It's a histor...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Chef Cathal has eyes on the culinary prize
He wants to walk down the red carpet and come away a winner. "This better be my year," Cathal Armstrong says with pointed intensity. Armstrong is t...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Lesser charges for five in Prince case
Five of the six defendants charged in connection with the bullying last year of Phoebe Prince in South Hadley, Massachusetts, have agreed to admit ...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Striding out for Aisling Center
The Aisling Irish Community Center in Yonkers wants you to don your running shoes, but walkers will do too. The center is holding its annual 5K run...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff