A strong wind puffed through Dublin yesterday, echoing the gusts of
joy blowing out of Wales. Ireland hasn’t had much to cheer
about lately, awakening every day to more gloomy headlines about
the consequences of the country’s economic collapse. Services
cut, taxes lifted, prospects bleak. The Irish national identity
has been hijacked by a nasty acronym linking it with the EU’s
other ineptly managed economies, the PIGS: Portugal, Irel...
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