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Hundreds of Irish rugby fans who were due to travel to London on Sunday for a crucial European cup tie have returned their tickets in a sign of how Ireland's biting recession is hitting middleclass professionals.The lengthening dole queues and the grounded helicopters of Ireland's bankrupt property developers may be the common leitmotif for Ireland's current economic plight.But it is the suffering of the middle class - and few groups better epitomise this than loyal travelling rugby fans - that makes this downturn different.
The lengthening dole queues and the grounded helicopters of Ireland's bankrupt property developers may be the common leitmotif for Ireland's current economic plight.
But it is the suffering of the middle class - and few groups better epitomise this than loyal travelling rugby fans - that makes this downturn different.
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