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Irish America Celebrates Annual Healthcare & Life Sciences 50

By Irish America Staff
October 6, 2015

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Irish America celebrated its annual Healthcare and Life Sciences 50 Awards Reception, co-hosted with ICON plc, on October 5 in Manhattan. The Healthcare and Life Sciences 50 aims to recognize the best and brightest professionals in the medical industry and highlight the work they are doing to improve the lives of their communities and our healthcare industry. “There’s a lot of … [Read more...] about Irish America Celebrates Annual Healthcare & Life Sciences 50

Weekly Comment: Irish-run Sepsis Awareness PSA Goes Viral

By Áine Mc Manamon, Advertising and Editorial Assistant
September 30, 2016

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A new public service announcement campaign from the Rory Staunton Foundation for Sepsis Prevention, founded by one of Irish America’s 2016 Healthcare and Life Sciences 50 honorees, has gone viral. The new campaign called “Know the Signs of Sepsis,” is a series of videos featuring parents who have lost their children to sepsis. In each video, parents share their children’s final … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: Irish-run Sepsis Awareness PSA Goes Viral

Weekly Comment: 9/11 Fifteen Years On

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
Sept. 9, 2016

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Back in July, on a hot afternoon at Kennedy International Airport in Queens, a truck carried a 40,000-pound piece of debris – draped in an American flag – out of a building known as Hangar 17. The building, for well over a decade, housed over 2,000 items collected from the rubble of the World Trade Center. But, as the New York Times noted, Hangar 17’s “storage room is now … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: 9/11 Fifteen Years On

Citigroup’s Daniel Keegan Named Wall Street 50 Keynote

By Irish America Staff
September 2, 2016

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Irish America is pleased to announce Citigroup’s co-head of Global Equities Daniel Keegan as keynote speaker at the 19th annual Irish America Wall Street 50 awards dinner on October 12th at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan. Keegan, who was appointed co-head of the group in May, previously served for three years as head of Equities Americas at Citi and joined Citi in 2007 as … [Read more...] about Citigroup’s Daniel Keegan Named Wall Street 50 Keynote

Weekly Comment: House of Waterford Crystal Celebrates One-Millionth Visitor

By Áine Mc Manamon
August 23, 2016.

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  August 19th marked a historic day for the House of Waterford Crystal as they welcomed their one-millionth visitor, Gladys Aycock from North Carolina, to their headquarters in Waterford city, Ireland. After booking a tour of the factory on her first trip to Ireland’s east coast, Gladys was greeted with a VIP reception upon her arrival at the House of Waterford Crystal. … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: House of Waterford Crystal Celebrates One-Millionth Visitor