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Mon 11 Nov 2009A tale of two booms
THE NOUGHTIES: As the first boom ended in 2002, we examined our souls – for about a millisecond. The pity is we didn’t gaze a little longer before restarting the party
THIS MONTH 10 years ago, Louis Vuitton came to Dublin. The launch party was in the brand new, five-star Merrion Hotel, where the fledgling boom was serenaded by a band flown in from the south of France. Brown Thomas had spotted Ireland’s emerging appetite for luxury goods, and it pounced.
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