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Wed 07 Jul 2009Jobless men rumble the secret lives of wives
Ireland’s unemployed husbands are finding their wives aren’t exactly thrilled about unlimited quality time
UH-OH. Side-effect of the recession No. 56 (b) – the wives have been rumbled. Like soldiers after a war, the casualties of the Celtic Tiger have come home and they don’t like what they see. Of the 418,000 people on the live register, two-thirds are men. Male dominated sectors like construction and finance have taken the brunt of redundancies.
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