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Fri 12 Dec 2009Taoiseach becomes first post-Budget striker
DÁIL SKETCH:WHO’D HAVE thought it? The first person going on strike after the Budget is – none other than the commander-in-chief of the public service, the Taoiseach.
Have the feelings of the trade unions rubbed off on Brian Cowen? Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said the Budget and the failure of the talks with the unions had left a “very sullen, deeply resentful public service”.
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