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Ireland will beat the global recession and is already making “real progress”, Taoiseach Brian Cowen said tonight.

Speaking at a Fianna Fáil election rally in Slane, Co Meath, Mr Cowen hit out at “the bad news brigade” and the Opposition, who he said “offer little in terms of solutions, but specialise in pointing the finger.”