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Suozzi in Tight House Race
Former congressman Tom Suozzi is in a tight race as he attempts to secure a return to the House of Representatives in a special election set for Tu...
February 09, 2024
by Ray O'Hanlon
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A Song For Ireland
Pic of Day: Tenor Michael Londra, who hails from County Wexford, sings to the audience Thursday evening at the Lotte Palace Hotel in Manhattan. The...
February 08, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
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Unity Vote This Decade
Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald has said that a referendum on Irish unity can be expected “in this decade." Ms. McDonald was speaking on RTÉ’...
February 08, 2024
by Anthony Neeson
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Schumer and Martin Meet
Pic of Day: Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer met with Tánaiste Micheál Martin on Capitol Hill Tuesday during the latter's visit to Washington...
February 07, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
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Varadkar Defends 'Rules-Based' Immigration System
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has criticised the “criminals” behind the torching of a former care home in County Dublin. Some people had staged protests n...
February 07, 2024
by Anthony Neeson
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Employers urged to open gates for Irish J1 students
Top Irish American organisations in New York have come together to support job-seeking students visiting the US under the J1 Visa program. On 22 Fe...
February 06, 2024
by Anthony Neeson
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John Bruton, Proud Meath Man
Photo of the Day: On a sunny day in Navan in May, 1997 John Bruton, who hailed from Dunboyne in the Royal County, scans the pages of the Meath Chro...
February 06, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
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Higgins Leads Tributes to John Bruton
President Michael D. Higgins was today leading tributes to former taoiseach John Bruton who has died aged 76. Said Higgins in a statement: “It is w...
February 06, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
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Arson Probe After Fire
Pic of Day: Gardai have launched an arson investigation after a former nursing home in Crooksling, near Brittas, in County Dublin caught fire early...
February 05, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
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Tectonic plates shift at Stormont as Michelle O'Neill takes First Minister position
In a move no-one could have envisaged when the Good Friday Agreement resuscitated Stormont 26 years ago, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill on Saturday b...
February 04, 2024
by Anthony Neeson
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Aisling Reilly takes up Junior Minister role at Stormont
WEST Belfast MLA Aisling Reilly has been appointed a Junior Minister in the new power-sharing Executive – and has committed to deliver an Irish Lan...
February 04, 2024
by Anthony Neeson
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First Minister Michelle
History is being made today as Michelle O'Neill takes charge of representative political life in Northern Ireland as its First Minister. The Sinn F...
February 03, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff