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IN contrast to Garret FitzGerald in 1986, Bertie Ahern is not prepared to consider State intervention to save Bewley’s.

Fri, 03 Dec, 2004 - 00:00

This is the same Bertie who says he read ‘Bowling Alone’ twice. What does he imagine the book was about

Why did he bother to waste so much time reading it if this is how little he really values the idea of a public realm?

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