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Thu 10 Oct 2008Financial crisis only temporary reprieve from treaty dilemma
The No vote is still the first thing everyone thinks of when it comes to the Irish, writes Lara Marlowein Brussels.
IN HIS pre-summit letter to European leaders, French president Nicolas Sarkozy said Taoiseach Brian Cowen's speech would be brief. The word went out discreetly from the French presidency to heads of state and government: go easy on the Irish.
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