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Mon 02 Feb 2010Apologies are delayed so often that they are tarnished
Surely it is Irish Catholicism that made us both so fixated on the apology and so reluctant to apologise, writes ANN MARIE HOURIHANE
FOR A country in which people say “sorry” when they bump into each other on the street – a habit as contagious as it is infuriating – it is strange that the real apology seems to be in trouble here.
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