A lot more than just money is at stake here

The current struggle is not just about whether Ireland can balance the books - it goes right to the heart of our very survival as a people and a nation

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So our world is cancelled until 2014.

The central question now facing this state is whether we can survive as a society and discharge the huge debt overshadowing everything.

And it’s not only about what the financial cost will be, but also the social cost.

The crisis could hardly be starker -not unlike the Germany of some two decades ago, when the Berlin Wall came down and the gigantic cost of unifying the ...