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12 May 2011

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The Problem with the euro

IN RUAIRÍ QUINN’S autobiography, Straight Left, he argued that during the 1990s the then Fine Gael/Labour Government made southern Irish state membership of the euro a key strategic imperative. He argued that membership would bring “solidarity” from other member-states and “low interest rates” to Irish borrowers, both of which would be key to our future economic development.
I remembered this seemingly random fact while listening to one of his Government colleagues blame the outgoing Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government for wrecking the healthy economy bequeathed to them by the Rainbow Coalition in 1997.

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