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Tue 04 Apr 2009PR system promotes non-decision making and inertia
The voting system inhibits meaningful ideological debate and fortifies the catch-all character of Irish politics, writes ELAINE BYRNE
PROBABLY THE worst thing about writing a book on the history of corruption in Ireland is the permanent sense of deja vu. The political carousel goes round and round rehearsing the same old arguments in the same old ways, repeating themselves into a routine.
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