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		<title>2010: A Good Year for the Irish?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In as much as we have been given many opportunites to learn a lot about ourselves, it has been a good year for the Irish. Will we take those opportunities or will we continue trying to delude ourselves with our visions of Irish exceptionalism? I don&#8217;t think we have much choice. Roll on 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>links for 2010-11-21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turbulence Ahead: A Question of Sovereignty (tags: ireland politics economics) A Fistful of Euros &#8211; Ireland: The timidity of the lawyers (tags: ireland politics economics) NAMA Wine Lake: The IMF and Ireland – the speech the Taoiseach should be making to the nation (tags: ireland politics economics)]]></description>
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		<title>links for 2010-11-08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[eire.com &#8211; Ten reasons to be optimistic about Ireland (tags: irish politics economics)]]></description>
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		<title>links for 2010-09-28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tales from Talbot Towers :The ?21,500 hotel bill &#38; Mary McAleese&#8217;s ?3,198 room What it&#8217;s all about, in case you had any doubt. (tags: ireland politics)]]></description>
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		<title>links for 2010-09-23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[e 21 &#8211; The Real Lesson About Ireland&#8217;s Austerity Plan We are where we are&#8230; (tags: ireland economics politics)]]></description>
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		<title>links for 2010-08-23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Irish Central: Ireland&#8217;s property crash could have been avoided I was just musing the other day at the vehemence with which Michael McDowell pursued Frank Connolly. (tags: ireland politics corruption patriots)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markingtime.org/blog/2010/08/24/links-for-2010-08-23/</link>
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		<title>Achill Island</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reminds me a little of Paul Henry. &#160; Achill is windy. Dooagh Village with Minaun Cliffs in the background.]]></description>
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		<title>Ireland &#8211; My Part in Her Downfall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time I gave Leaving Cert Maths grinds to a boy who would later become the Chief Financial Officer at Anglo Irish Bank. My mind does backflips of bogglement when I recall the intergalactic trajectory his career has taken since my brief interjection. We are all to blame for the state of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markingtime.org/blog/2010/08/16/ireland-my-part-in-her-downfall/</link>
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		<title>links for 2010-08-12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[YouTube &#8211; Story of the Blades Nice little documentary (tags: music ireland) 3quarksdaily: Griel Marcus on Van Morrison Santiago concert cancelled due to rain, his Mercedes splashed me as it passed. It meant something? (tags: music) Ronan Lyons: Five things you need to know about Ireland&#8217;s competitiveness (tags: irish politics economics) Ireland after NAMA: Understanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markingtime.org/blog/2010/08/10/spanish-point/</link>
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