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Irish Senator – Michael McDowell

Day: 1 January 2025

Ireland in the 1980s was backward, poor and stagnant. Some politicians want to bring us back there

From the beginning of January 1973, Ireland was a member state of the EEC. But for the following decade we were in the throes of despair. By the mid-1980s, Ireland was being crippled by political violence, mass emigration, mass unemployment, political paralysis and a sense of hopelessness. Sometimes it is worthwhile recalling the failed structure of the Irish economy […]

Michael
McDowell

Independent Senator for
Seanad Éireann NUI Panel
  • Seanad Éireann Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
  • michael.mcdowell@oireachtas.ie
  • 01 6183466

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