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The McCourts take the lead

Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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The Brothers McCourt aren't big on parades and especially

on the biggest and oldest of them all, the daylong St. Patrick's Day Parade up

Fifth Avenue. "Angela's Ashes" author Frank McCourt once dismissed the grand

march, saying that "if you threw a bomb at this ghastly assemblage, you would

wipe out the cream of Irish mediocrity."

So why then, have the McCourts...

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