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COUNTRY versus a continent?

Mon, 25 Oct, 2010 - 01:00

Not if Saturday evening in Limerick was anything to go by.

Call us cynical – many have – but there was a rat to be smelled early this week, in the oddly friendly approach of the Australians to their media duties.

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