NI intent on breaking its economic dependency

Fri, Mar 25, 2011, 00:00

Dan Keenan

ANALYSIS:FIRST MINISTER Peter Robinson was almost certainly right when he admitted yesterday that Northern Ireland and its economy had “crossed the Rubicon to some extent”.

“It is not in the interests of Northern Ireland to be the beggars of the UK,” he said at the publication of the British treasury’s consultation paper Rebalancing the Northern Ireland Economy.

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