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Mon 07 Jul 2008Tánaiste says economic problems different to 1980s
TÁNAISTE MARY Coughlan has warned against using the policies of the 1980s to deal with the economic downturn.
Opening the MacGill Summer School in Glenties, Co Donegal, last night, she said Patrick MacGill would have agreed with the saying that generals always fought the last battle, not the next one. "We need to avoid that trap. Certain commentators are advising us to set our economic clocks back to the 1980s.
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