Celtic Tiger `a pussycat'

IRELAND'S Celtic Tiger image was described as an "Irish pussycat" by the Bray based Wicklow Trade Union Centre for the Unemployed…

IRELAND'S Celtic Tiger image was described as an "Irish pussycat" by the Bray based Wicklow Trade Union Centre for the Unemployed. Ms Carmel McKenna, the centre's coordinator, said that unemployed people in the Bray area "are losing out on schemes designed to help them because central government does not accept that we have a problem".

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