Ireland's Ruling Party Headed for Crushing Defeat, Early Poll Shows

Mr. Cowen has become for many a hated symbol of the policies that led to Ireland's current predicament and to its precipitous fall from prosperity to ruin. Unemployment is up to 13.8 percent (it was as low as 4.2 percent as recently as 2005); ...

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