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THE GREEN Party will bring thousands of “green-tech” jobs to Dublin, its European candidate election in the constituency, Déirdre de Búrca, promised yesterday.

Senator de Búrca said she was determined to win back the European Parliament seat in the capital which was held by the Greens’ former MEP Patricia McKenna for 10 years before her defeat in 2004.