Cowen’s vision for Ireland – Act like we’ve just been nuked

politics 16 July 2009 5 Comments

“It’s very simple,” said the Taoiseach. “People must learn to live in painful anxiety in caves as if the outside world has become profoundly toxic, and must learn to enjoy it. Or they must die.”

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From the bottom to the top of Grafton Street

commerce and trade, politics 23 February 2009 0 Comments

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digg_bodytext = ‘I switch songs on my iPhone, trying to get something suitably recessiony, something to remind me times are hard and things are bad and people are sad. I round the corner past the bus stops, happy not to accelerate past [...]

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