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3 weeks 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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3 weeks ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
irishecho.com | Anthony Neeson |Mike Houlihan
Home Racing to success From left: John Lee of “The Irish Stew” podcast, longtime horse racing columnist for the Echo John Manley, Colm Morrissey of the MRC International syndicate and Deputy Consul General Gareth Hargadon were pictured at an Oct. 17 gathering organized by Horse Racing Ireland in conjunction with the Consulate General of Ireland in New York. For a Q&A with Morrissey, click here.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
irishecho.com | Anthony Neeson |Mike Houlihan |Anthony Murphy
Dad’s friend Derek was a keen gardener. He only had a small patch to grow on, like all of us on the estate. My dad had planted potatoes and strawberries, easy stuff to grow. We did have an old poplar tree in the middle of the back garden though, so we were more limited.
Derek’s tastes were tangier. The rhubarb plant is also not so difficult to grow in the tricky climes of the English Northwest, but no one else was trying it on our street.
Marrows and carrots yes, but rhubarb?
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
irishecho.com | Mike Houlihan |Anthony Neeson
The first book to record the total number of GAA members killed during the recent Troubles has been launched in Belfast.
"Lost Gaels, Remembering the Members of the GAA killed during the conflict in Ireland," is written by Peadar Thompson and published by Ireland-based Merrion Press.
Featuring a foreword by GAA President Jarlath Burns, the book provides a platform for families and friends to remember those they lost during the 30-year conflict.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
irishecho.com | Peter J. McDermott |Mike Houlihan
Chicago homicide detective Lt. Dan Shine has plenty of stories to tell me as he celebrates his retirement later this week.
Sure there are plenty of bad guy busts and scary encounters he’s had over his last 31 years as a police officer. But he’s also very lucky; in many ways because of the secrets revealed to him over the years. Secrets that went on to change the course and direction and blessings of his journey.
