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Wed 09 Sep 2009Lemass would back strategy - Cowen
SEÁN LEMASS would have viewed the crisis that Ireland faces as one primarily of solidarity and national purpose, Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said.
Mr Cowen, who was launching a biography of one of his Fianna Fáil predecessors as taoiseach, also said Lemass would have welcomed the public debate about the handling of the State’s fiscal difficulties, including the publication of the McCarthy report on public sector cuts and the report of the Commission on Taxation.
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