The Irish Echo is a weekly newspaper

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 based in New York City

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. Founded in 1928, it bills itself as "the USA's most widely read Irish-American newspaper" with a readership of 100,000 on circulation of about 60,000. According to the Irish Echo's media kit, the newspaper is printed in both the United States

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 and Ireland

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and has "newsstand presence in all major American and Irish cities." Irish writers John B Keane, Brian Friel and Tom Caulfield have all contributed to the paper in the past.

44% of the newspaper's readers are first-generation Irish immigrants to the United States.