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Tue 11 Nov 2009We must learn from diaspora, says Robinson
IRELAND MUST learn from the optimistic attitudes of Irish emigrants to deal with “the sense of national depression” at home, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson said yesterday.
Speaking in London to a University College Dublin-organised conference, Mrs Robinson said the Irish diaspora “can help us greatly to reimagine Ireland” and to “re-establish our credibility, especially in the economic sense”.
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