Model Town to Ghost Town ; the State We're in There Is No Shop,Pub, Cafe,Post Office,Library. There's Nowhere to Go, No Footfall,No Sign of Life [Eire Region]
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THEY say all politics is local and as we face into next week's elections, the issues national, council and European candidates confront up and down the country run the gamut. But whether north, or south, east or west, TD, councillor or MEP, the sentiment on the doorsteps is the same - anger and frustration that such a period of plenty was squandered and that what remains is the broken legacy of the Celtic Tiger.
Whether it's bitterness and betrayal on the streets of Sligo at the stripping of cancer services; disillusionment and despair in Edenderry that being in An Taoiseach's backyard has conferred nothing but rising live-register figures; or frustration and fear in Kinsale that a once-thriving tourist industry is being virtually rubbed out by recession, though the root causes are different, the result is the same, that these elections have fresh import as a national referendum on this Government and its policies.See the full content of this document
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Model Town to Ghost Town ; the State We're in There Is No Shop,Pub, Cafe,Post Office,Library. There's Nowhere to Go, No Footfall,No Sign of Life [Eire Region]
Starting today, and continuing all next week, the Irish Daily Mail will bring you dispatches from six regions buckling under the strain of economic collapse - and take you to the heart of the issues convulsing the State ahead of these pivotal elections.
We meet the middle-aged men who have lost their livelihoods and the breast cancer patients who fear their recovery will be impaired if services are removed. We talk to the families who feel abandoned by Government and the parents who believe their generation has failed their children.This compelling six-part series - beginning in Adamstown - lays bare The State We're In......See the full content of this document
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