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Here's the top Irish news stories on IrishCentral today:

Irish carriage driver’s racist and homophobic outburst startles NYC - VIDEO

New York City Council Speaker and 2013 mayoral contender Christine Quinn is being asked to reconsider her support for New York’s horse and carriage industry after a shocking new video shows an Irish horse driver verbally abusing a group of women leafleting against the industry with racist and homophobic slurs...READ MORE

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Irish woman victim of vicious assault in the Bronx

A young Irish immigrant is recovering after a brutal assault in the Bronx last weekend...READ MORE

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Rory’s Law -- major effort underway to ensure kids kept safe in ER

Rory Staunton, 12, was discharged from a New York emergency room last March as his body was in the throes of septic shock, an action that resulted in the boy’s death three days later...READ MORE

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Manhattan Diary: Money for Mitt Romney but not the nation

What's happened is appalling but it's easily explained: the world of Mitt Romney, the world of America's super rich, has simply decoupled itself from the United States...READ MORE

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Sunday Times editor arrested in Mauritius after police raid house

The editor of the Mauritian paper which published photos of Michaela McAreavey taken at the scene of her murder has been arrested...READ MORE

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