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Mon 09 Sep 2009Barroso visits Treaty City where there was little appetite for confrontation
THE EUROPEAN commission president may not be the best known political leader in the world, but at 9.30am on a wet Saturday morning in the departures area of Shannon airport, José Manuel Barroso was box office gold, writes RUADHÁN Mac CORMAIC
Emerging from a conference room after a short meeting of the Oireachtas European Affairs Committee, foreign TV crews pursued him through the terminal while bleary-eyed travellers stretched for a glimpse and local politicians, their excess dignity relinquished at the check-in desk, angled over his shoulder and into the frame. “Any chance you’d take a few schnaps,” one local TD asked a photographer as he swung into position.
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