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No safety nets

The complaint by Florence Craven about ‘the Government’s addiction to safety nets’ (Letters, May 1) is ironical.

No safety nets

Wed, 02 May, 2012 - 01:00

If governments had been more addicted to safety nets during the CelticTiger we might not now be bankrupt.

Leavy Sutton

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