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Thu 02 Feb 2010Whatever floats your boat
THOSE WITH boom-gained millions who want to escape recession-depression Ireland could sail into the sunset by buying a penthouse on The World, a luxury residential ship.
You may think that you have arrived when you are able to pay $13.5 million (€9.675 million) for a six-bedroom penthouse apartment but if you buy “The World Suite” you will never really arrive anywhere because it is on a cruiser that circumnavigates the globe (visiting ports for a few days at a time).
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