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Kenny for early May New York visit
Not all the highlight political visits in May will be taking place on Irish soil. Taoiseach Enda Kenny will be coming to New York to attend the ann...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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A year on, a hard road for Natasha McShane
It's been a year since the savage attack on a Chicago street in which Irish exchange student Natasha McShane almost lost her life. And the once vib...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Say it ain't so Bob
Say it ain't so, Bob Dylan! After all the years of times a changin' you go off to China and let the yuppie comrades dictate your set list? Don't yo...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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60 years no obstacle after all
The effort to secure a Congressional Medal of Honor for Kerry native and Korean War hero Patrick Sheahan has been bogged down in Washington seeming...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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In Moneygall, of all places
The County Offaly village that will host President Barack Obama during his visit to Ireland next month was at the center of a security scare last w...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Irish aid mom takes stumble in her stride
Leitrim mother of two, Sinead Wain, started work with the Irish aid agency GOAL in the stricken Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince just a few weeks ag...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Little left after monthly bills
Roughly a fifth of the population of the Republic is counting its pennies once the monthly bills are paid, this according to shocking new figures c...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Irish effort is praised by lenders
The first review of Ireland's €85 billion international rescue plan has concluded the Irish government has met its fiscal targets by "a comfortable...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Waterfront priest profiled in Irish-language doc
New York waterfront campaigner the Rev. John Corridan S.J. is the subject of a documentary to be broadcast on the Irish-language television station...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Sligo village hoping for its own VIP visitor
Sligo - Both the U.S. president and the queen of England are due in Ireland in May but the village of Riverstown in County Sligo may have its own h...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Council's Quinn presents Kelly with Manton award
The New York City Council recently held its annual Irish heritage and culture event at the offices of Mutual of America on Park Avenue in Manhattan...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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A Rose in the Apple
The Big Apple rose of Tralee festival was held recently at the Hudson Theatre in Manhattan and the winner and Big Apple Rose of Tralee representati...
April 20, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff