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Mary Coughlan may not have a Facebook account but she, like many Irish politicians, has an online presence without official sanction, writes ROSITA BOLAND
FACEBOOK HAS one million users in Ireland, but when the Tánaiste, Mary Coughlan, turned up at the official opening of the Dublin office earlier this week, it transpired that she was not one of them. As the occasion was to mark the creation of 70 more jobs at Facebook’s Dublin base, which is the headquarters for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, it was quite a revelation for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to make.
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