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2 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Anthony Neeson |Mike Houlihan
FORMER Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has called for "substantial reform of the BBC's internal journalist processes" after the corporation confirmed that it will not appeal a Dublin courts libel verdict.
Last month Mr Adams was awarded €100,000 in damages against the broadcaster. He sued the BBC over a 2016 Spotlight NI documentary and an accompanying online article, which he said defamed him, and which alleged that he sanctioned the 2006 murder of British agent Dennis Donaldson.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Mike Houlihan |Geoffrey Cobb |Anthony Neeson
The recently-installed Lord Mayor of Belfast Tracy Kelly, was in the Big Apple this week to address the 16th annual New York-New Belfast conference.
On hand to greet her for, what Lord Mayor Kelly said, was her second visit to New York was State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli who has made repeated investments in Northern Ireland start-ups in order to boost the peace process.
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1 month ago | 
irishecho.com | Mike Houlihan |Sean Creedon
Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson has reiterated his desire to see Caoimhín Kelleher leave Liverpool and become a first-choice goalkeeper elsewhere. The Corkman won his second EPL title two weeks back and is now approaching the end of his sixth first-team campaign with Liverpool where he remains number two behind Brazilian Alisson Becker.
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1 month ago | 
irishecho.com | Sean Creedon |Geoffrey Cobb |Mike Houlihan
Tommy Finnegan is the son of a Chicago Firefighter and has been playing the pipes in The Shannon Rovers Pipe Band for 27 years. He sez, “I’m not musically inclined.”
He got the itch to join the band when he was a little kid, meeting the late Irish rebel and Rovers founder Tommy Ryan at a family party and told him he wanted to play the bass drum.
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2 months ago | 
irishecho.com | Peter J. McDermott |Mike Houlihan
The Knights of Saint Patrick held their annual Saint Patrick’s Day Luncheon on March 17 at the Pierre Hotel on Fifth Avenue.
The prestigious event was attended by over 250 guests in recognition of Michael A. Benn, Grand Marshal of the 264th Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, and Joseph M. Murphy, Jr., the Knights of Saint Patrick Aide to the Grand Marshal.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
irishecho.com | Mike Houlihan |Anthony Murphy |Ray O'Hanlon |Peter J. McDermott
Jack O’Connell worked many stints as a barman during his life, and he played one several times on TV and in the movies.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
irishecho.com | Mike Houlihan |Anthony Neeson |Larry Kirwan
Like many people from Ireland I support an English football team.
As I brace myself for sneers of contempt curried by hollow words of patronizing pity, okay, I admit it – I’m a Man U guy. I wasn’t always so self-effacing.
We used to be the best, like a mix between Jeter’s Yankees and the recently deposed Chiefs.
Now my Red Devils are famous for two things: being overpaid and unable to score goals.
Still, as much as I abhor their style of play, I can’t stop supporting them. Why, I ask myself?
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
irishecho.com | Anthony Neeson |Geoffrey Cobb |Mike Houlihan
When Kathy O’Shea passed about three and a half years ago, she left behind her husband Kevin, five kids and ten grandkids and an empty house full of memories.
Kevin was bereft, the kids were all grown and had homes of their own.
He had started a great career as a venture capitalist, but without Kathy he was lonely…well he tells me. “I was just sitting at home one day, kind of coming back from work, making dinner, going to bed, and I said ‘this is no way to live your life.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
irishecho.com | Lori Cassels |Mike Houlihan |Jay Mwamba
“King” Callum Walsh and “Deadly” Dean Sutherland came face to face for the first time in Manhattan last week to begin the countdown for their St. Patrick’s Day eve scrap on March 16 at Madison Square Garden. Both fighters were brimming with confidence.
Hailed as the fastest rising star in boxing, the undefeated and world-ranked Walsh [12-0, 10 KOs] will be defending his WBC super welterweight Continental Americas title for the third time at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
irishecho.com | Mike Houlihan
Born in Buffalo New York, Pete Nolan hit Chicago at its cataclysmic peak. It was 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King had just been assassinated, then Bobby Kennedy, and then that summer Chicago hosted the ’68 Democratic Convention.
“Hosted it” with Billy clubs and brass knuckles. It was an epic time for a young news reporter and Peter Nolan was there to cover it all.
