WITH SUMMER BRINGING its normal run of silly news items, I selected a few topics from five papers that illustrate how Ireland is handling its gradual descent into a debt-ridden society. Billions of euro have been pumped into failed banks, leveraging at least two generations with government debt. The wind noise on my YouTube clip comes from the breeze blowing around Hore Abbey as I flipped through the Sunday papers.
Direct link to video and http://www.insideview.ie/files/hore-abbey-news.mp3.
Direct link to video and http://www.insideview.ie/files/hore-abbey-news.mp3.
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