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Mayors on ice
Mayors on ice Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and former mayor Ray Flynn started last weekend’s historic hockey game at Fenway Park between Boston College...
January 10, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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Sister Noreen’s Jubilee
Sister Noreen Holly recently celebrated her 25th year jubilee as a Sister of Charity of St. Elizabeth. Sister Noreen is principal of St. Vincent Ma...
January 09, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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That was fun!
It’s January 6, and so that’s the festive season officially over with, but “Our Duke,” who won the Neville Hotels Novice Steeplechase with Robbie P...
January 06, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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Throwback Thursday
Irish rock legend Phil Lynott, front man for the band Thin Lizzy, died thirty years ago this week. He is pictured here in 1984 in Grafton Street, D...
January 05, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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Fire before the ice
The Titanic did not sink to the bottom of the Atlantic just because it struck an iceberg. The iconic ship was actually on fire before it plunged to...
January 04, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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Burns to be next ambassador
Brian Burns Irish American businessman Brian Burns, whose father was an advisor to President Kennedy’s father Joseph, will be President Donald Trum...
January 03, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
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Swan Brake
Members of the public have taken to feeding the large flock of swans which have made a home in Portobello Harbour on the Grand Canal in Dublin’s So...
December 30, 2016
by Irish Echo Staff
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Ho Ho Oh No….
Taking the annual Christmas Day plunge at the famed Forty Foot in Sandycove, County Dublin. RollingNews.ie photo.
December 29, 2016
by Irish Echo Staff
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From Louth to Texas
Mary McQuade Martinez, originally from County Louth, and her daughter, Mary Molina, at the Irish Cultural Society of San Antonio's Christmas Party....
December 28, 2016
by Irish Echo Staff
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Celebrating the ‘king of all birds’
The night of December 26th is known in Irish folklore as “Wren Night” and the tradition was duly celebrated by AOH Division 3 in Pearl River, Rockl...
December 27, 2016
by Irish Echo Staff
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Brothers of the year!
Cork rowing brothers Gary and Paul O'Donovan, who were European gold-medalists and Olympic silver-medalists in 2016, were named Team of the Year la...
December 23, 2016
by Irish Echo Staff
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Another Irish tenor?
Taoiseach Enda Kenny joined the government staff choir to sing a selection of Christmas carols. RollingNews.ie photo.
December 22, 2016
by Irish Echo Staff