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Malachy

British  
/ ˈmæləˌkaɪ /

noun

  1. Saint. 1094–1148, Irish prelate; he became Archbishop of Armagh (1132) and founded (1142) the first Cistercian abbey in Ireland. Feast day: Nov 3

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Teresa and Malachy have two other sons who are now in their 20s.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024

Malachy Browne is enterprise director of the Visual Investigations team at The Times.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2023

Rummie comes to Westminster with handler, owner and breeder David Fitzpatrick, who has guided two other Pekes to Westminster wins: Malachy in 2012 and Wasabi in 2021.

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2023

The virus may be filling the ecological and immunological niche once occupied by the smallpox virus, wrote Malachy Ifeanyi Okeke of the American University of Nigeria and his colleagues in a 2020 paper.

From Scientific American • May 24, 2022

Angela wanted to give him a middle name, Munchin, after the patron saint of Limerick but Malachy said over his dead body.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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