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Mon 05 May 2011Our last chance to arise from slumber and seize the future
OPINION:IF, AS Swift said, vision is the art of seeing the invisible, then Ireland has had an abundance of those who were cursed with the absence of it, along with the inability to see what is right before their eyes.
The country is in economic free fall: hundreds of billions owed to foreign banks, ghost estates, politics in disrepute, superficial reform raining down like squalls off the Kerry coast and the populace sometimes rocked by anger and struck dumb by ennui.
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