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Sat 01 Jan 2009Can we remake Ireland's future?
The year ended with the certainty that the global crisis is not a short-term glitch, and that Ireland is suffering more than most. Will 2009 bring the shift in Irish political culture needed to bring us back from the brink? asks FINTAN O'TOOLE
LATE LAST YEAR, when the rock band Tindersticks played in Dublin, they finished their set with The Not Knowing, a haunting ballad of love and denial. The words seemed especially apt and particularly poignant: "The not knowing is easy/ The suspecting, that's okay/ Just don't tell me for certain/ That our love has gone away."
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