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Fri 08 Aug 2008House building falls 51% in first half of 2008
HOUSE BUILDING halved in the first six months of the year, indicating that around 60,000 jobs could be lost in residential construction this year.
Builders began work on just 15,386 new homes in the Republic during the first six months of the year, fewer than half the 31,747 commenced in the same period last year, according to the Department of the Environment and Local Government.
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