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FT.com / Europe - Ireland's budget infuriates middle class
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.



"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
by Melanchthon on Fri Apr 10th, 2009 at 02:36:07 PM EST
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