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In this place, the walls say it all
If only these walls could talk, goes the saying. Well, such a phenomenon might help Belfast's new lord mayor who is this week defending his decisio...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Viva, eh, Two-Mile-Borris
Move over Las Vegas! Take a hike down your own boardwalk Atlantic City! Two-Mile-Borris is getting into the game. An Bord Pleanála, the Irish plann...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Why are we still in these places?
Who will be the last one to die? How long now since John Kerry, a decorated hero, asked that question in relation to the Vietnam War as it lurched ...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Hearing it from all sides
Welcome to politics young man. Sinn Féin's recently elected lord mayor of Belfast, Niall Ó Donnghaile, more lad than lord by the look of various ph...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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OFFALY COP REACHES TOP OF MT. EVEREST Fifty-eight-year-old Martin Byrne is back in his native South Offaly, after becoming the first member of An G...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Cameron urges shared future
The British Prime Minister has told MLAs at Stormont that Northern Ireland needs a "shared future, not a shared out future." David Cameron was spea...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Times welcomes North tax bid
The Irish Times has welcomed the move by Belfast political leaders to bring the North's corporate tax regime in line with, least close to or even l...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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No surprise as Maskey wins West Belfast seat
Sinn Féin's Paul Maskey has been elected as the new MP for West Belfast. Mr. Maskey, who celebrated his 44th birthday on the day of the poll, took ...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Irish government pressed on Magdalene abuse
The United Nations Committee Against Torture has repeated its earlier requests for an independent investigation into the Magdalene Laundries abuse ...
June 16, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Conference and Index 30 focus on transatlantic ties
The growing economic, political and cultural ties between New York City and Belfast were highlighted over two days last week with the second annual...
June 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Joe Wilson wins Irish American Business Champion Award
Joe Wilson, Senior Vice President and Account Executive Team Leader was presented with the Irish American business Champions Award at the Irish Ech...
June 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Fitzgerald is our Entrepreneur of the Year
Dr. Peter Fitzgerald, the founder and managing director of Randox Laboratories - and whose career has spanned the worlds of scientific research and...
June 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff