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Sat 06 Jun 2009The fractured metropolis?
THE IRISH IN BERLIN:Is Berlin a capital of creativity, as the hype would have you believe, or rather a slacker's paradise, where every day is a Saturday? DEREK SCALLY talks to some Irish immigrants who have managed to forge careers there
JOHN LENNON ONCE remarked that life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. For many Irish, the German capital is a place they never intended to make their home but, to stretch Lennon's logic, they have found Berlin to be a fine spot to live while making other arrangements.
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