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Poverty in Ireland (Apr '80)

Poverty in Ireland (Brian Trench and Pat Brennan)
The Last Hurrah; Staff reporter Gene Kerrigan has been through New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Illinois and New York on the compaign trail of Senator Edward Kennedy (Gene Kerrigan)
A Bizarre Championship; A review of the international rugby season (John Reason)
Foundations for Further Development; A defence of the economic policy of the Lynch Government (Martin O’Donoghue)
Showdown at Sachs (Nell McCafferty)

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Poverty in Ireland

One million people in the Republic of Ireland live in poverty. Poverty is endemic to Irish society and extends not just to the unemployed, the travellers, and the slum-dwellers, but reaches right into the middle classes.In Ireland, social inequality is greater than in any other EEC country. The proportion of total income which goes to the poorest 30% is smaller here than elsewhere in the EEC, while the richest 30% here get a higher proportion of total income than the EEC average. The 300,000 at

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Edward Kennedy: The Last Hurrah

Staff reporter Gene Kerrigan has been through New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Illinois and New York on the campaign trail of Senator Edward Kennedy.

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A Bizarre Championship

So many groups of national selectors got so many things wrong in the 1980 international rugby championship that it was small wonder that it finished up in a way that no knowledgeable critic could have predicted with England winning the international championship, the Triple Crown, the Grand Slam and the Calcutta Cup; with France buried at the bottom of the table, sharing the wooden spoon with Scotland; and with Wales reduced to anonymity, having been buried by Ireland at Lansdowne Road.

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Foundation for Further Development

Martin O'Donoghue defends the economic policy of the Lynch government.

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Showdown at Sachs

This place is a fucking kip." Large Lily, of Belfast extraction, punctured the social souffle of the charity poker finals held in Sach's Hotel, Dublin on the night of Sunday February 24. "You're a bunch of fucking phoneys," she said into the audible silence from her six opponents around the table. "I'm fucking freezing," she continued, shuffling her monopoly money, shaking her incredible bulk, wristling her solid gold bracelet. She looked over her lorgnette, tossed off another glass of brandy, a

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