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In Search of Those Extraordinary Scots-Irish, Irish Echo, Mar 14, 2012

Back to basics to make real money, Irish Examiner, Mar 14, 2009
"I was smart enough to get out of real estate and dumb enough to get back into financing it," said Sean Conlon, the multi-millionaire from Kildare, who started off as a $7 an hour janitor in Chicago in 1990 and went on to become one of Chi-town's most famous real estate moguls. These days he's the poster boy for economic recovery in the U.S..

Wall St Workers wonder what's next, Irish Examiner, Sept 20, 2008
"I was here on Black Monday when a guy jumped off that building," said Arif Khan whose little fruit stall on the corner of Wall St and Broadway has thrived from doing business with an army of bankers and brokers for the last 22 years. "But the only thing worse than this was 9/11."

Stone puts her foot in it during bitter custody battle, Irish Examiner, Oct 4, 2008

Author McCourt Aims His Barbs at Bishops, Irish Echo, Oct 20, 2004

The bell tolls for New York's best loved Irishman, Sunday Tribune, Dec 24, 2006

A Step Up, Irish Echo, Oct 12, 2005
Not long ago in a small dusty room in a beleaguered part of the Bronx where Murphy and O'Brien have been supplanted by Ortiz and Sanchez, an Irishman and an Irish-American with ambitions to educate the poorest of New York's poor, mulled over a perplexing question.

In The Line of Fire, Irish Times, Jan 25, 2005, The latest action movie Ladder 49 is based on the real-life experiences of Irish-American firefighters working in Baltimore in the US. Karen McCarthy spent a day with the team.

A Fashionista Walk, Irish Echo, Sept 14, 2005

Searching for Soul , New York Amsterdam News, Feb 23, 2005

At Swim For a Good Cause , Irish Echo, Jan 2005

Good To The Last Drop , Irish Echo, Nov 3, 2004, During those drab, rainy decades, when people crammed into Dublin tenements and weary mothers dragged bored and boisterous children through stale department stores for communion shoes or winter coats.

The Vanishing of New York's Homeless Courier Life, Aug 5, 2004

What Urban Style Really Means, NY Amsterdam News, May 20 , 2004

Afhan women suffering more now than under Taliban rule, Irish Examiner, Oct 9, 2009

Campaign promises difficult to keep, Irish Examiner, Feb 9, 2009

Sunni tribal leaders take on al-Qaeda, Irish Times, Sept 4, 2007
IRAQ:The strategy of paying Iraqis as private security contractors and working with them is spreading, writes Karen McCarthy in Baghdad

Inside the Triangle of Death, Sunday Tribune, Sep 2 2007

There's only one thing worse than Baghdad by night... Baghdad by day, Sunday Tribune, Aug 26 2007

Progress against Shia mafia is mired in distrust, Irish Times, Aug 20 2007
IRAQ; Karen McCarthy in Zafarniyah, Baghdad, reports on the US army's strategy for winning hearts and minds from the much-feared local militia

The Deadliest Tour of Duty, Sunday Tribune, Aug 19 2007

Locals now running former terrorist HQ , Irish Times, August 6, 2007

Stryker soldiers think of family as return begins, The News Tribune, Sept 8 2007

Baghdad takes notice of Stryker's work, The News Tribune, Aug 17, 2007

Stryker reconstruction in Baquba, The News Tribune, August 11, 2007

Hunting Missing Troops in Iraq, Times Union, Oct 14, 2007

Soldier on Trial for Fatal Shooting , Irish Examiner, May 8, 2007