Gavan Reilly

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Thought for the day: March 31, 2011

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A GENERATION ago, the very idea that a British politician would go to Ireland to see how to run an economy would have been laughable. The Irish Republic was seen as Britain’s poor and troubled country cousin, a rural backwater on the edge of Europe. Today things are different. Ireland stands as a shining example of the art of the possible in long-term economic policymaking, and that is why I am in Dublin: to listen and to learn.

– George Osborne
The Times
February 23, 2006

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Written by Gav

March 31st, 2011 at 7:03 pm

Posted in Banks,Politics

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