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Outrage as Phoebe's tormentors are given light sentences
BOSTON --- The teenagers who bullied Phoebe Prince for months before she hanged herself on January 14, 2010 were given probation and community serv...
May 11, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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It's Cavan or 'busk'
It's Cavan or bust for a group of New York area teenage musicians who are playing their way to this year's Fleadh Cheoil in Cavan. After qualifying...
May 11, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Malachy McCourt for Maryknoll
Writer, actor and raconteur Malachy McCourt will be delivering a free lecture this Sunday, May 15 at the world headquarters of the Maryknoll missio...
May 11, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Kenny delivers message that Ireland is open for business
Taoiseach Enda Kenny delivered a firm message during his whirlwind visit to New York last week that Ireland would rebuild its economy and its doors...
May 11, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Terry Kirby remembers the 1981 hunger strikers
"Not one single day goes by without thoughts of our ten heroes of the 1981 Hunger Strike and the smashed hopes of the 1980 Strike," says Terry Kirb...
May 11, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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As you were
The DUP and Sinn Féin have been confirmed as the two largest parties in Northern Ireland after last week’s Assembly poll. The results see the DUP’s...
May 11, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Drew U. hosts family history symposium
By Peter McDermott Genealogists were once the poor relations. Not anymore. A conference at Drew University will hear that the walls between family ...
May 10, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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For Michael
It will now be a salute to victory as well as a fallen comrade. The news that U.S. Navy SEALS had taken out Osama Bin Laden at his compound in Paki...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Hunger strikers remembered
On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands on hunger strike the leader of IRA prisoners in the H-Blocks at that time has spoken...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Parched Ireland going up in smoke
Hundreds of gorse fires that have been raging across Northern Ireland since the weekend have been started deliberately according to the Northern Ir...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Kenny to announce Seanad nominees
Taoiseach Enda Kenny is expected to soon announce his list of 11 nominees for membership of Seanad Éireann, according to government sources. It is ...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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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