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Wed 04 Apr 2009New approach needed to fix broken Irish political system
OPINION:Pervasive cronyism must be replaced if the country is to start making progress, writes MICHAEL HENNIGAN.
US PRESIDENT Harry Truman had a sign on his desk, which read: The Buck Stops Here. In Ireland, despite the second period of monumental economic mismanagement in a generation, there appears to be little appetite to fix a broken political system that had its genesis in the era of the donkey and cart.
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