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Fri 02 Feb 2010Sacrifices needed for recovery,says Cowen
TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen last night invoked the centenary of the Easter Rising in five years’ time as he made a “rallying cry” urging people to make short-term sacrifices to allow a return to prosperity by 2016.
Mr Cowen invoked the symbolically important commemoration several times during his speech to the agm dinner of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce last night, saying that this generation of Irish people should be prepared to “look beyond our self-interest” so as not to fail the next generation.
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