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Sat 07 Jul 2009Time to take medicine, no matter how bitter it tastes
INSIDE POLITICS:A finely crafted report makes it clear that our problems cannot be solved without widespread pain, writes MARK HENNESSY
COLM McCARTHY’s enemies will seek to portray him as a right-wing, heartless Thatcherite, who refuses to heed the needs of society. But he has done the State some service if only to make people think of the unthinkable.
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