Deceit, despair, death: An Irishman in America AP Online | August 8, 1998| | . This material is published under license from the Associated Press. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Associated Press. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

LARRY McSHANE AP National Writer
AP Online
08-08-1998
NEW YORK (AP) _ No promise of streets paved with gold led Liam Mason out of County Monaghan this spring. It was driveways paved with hot asphalt that lured the young man across the Atlantic on his first trip out of Ireland.

He arrived March 15 at Kennedy International Airport, promised good work and better pay from a New Jersey paving subcontractor. Instead, the 23-year-old Irishman worked 14-hour days for a fraction of his promised wages.

Three months later, depressed and destitute, Liam Mason was dead - a suicide, authorities ...

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