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Mon 10 Oct 2009World's media circus moves on having come to Ireland's big top to hear the lion roar No
Failure often makes a better story than success. The Yes vote sends hacks back home without a doomsday yarn, writes KATHY SHERIDAN
IT COULD have been such fun. High on adrenaline, the international press corps piled into the country early in the week, prowled the mean streets of Tall-acht (“the highest No place before, non?”), with the more intrepid even making it as far as Leem-reek; took the nuclear-level temperature of several hundred rabid taxi drivers; filed reports of rampant recession and resistance; and reckoned there just might be a story come Saturday morning.
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