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Loss of faith in the Irish fairy tale

People demonstrating outside the Irish Parliament over proposals to accept a bail from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and EU

It was in the middle of the boom in 2006, and an acquaintance had stopped by my summer cottage on the County Waterford coast.
We were drinking tea in the garden.
"You are mad not to be building here," he told me. "You'd get two places on this land.

 
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