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Article: Celtic Tiger strangled by the euro; As Britain debates the euro, Larry Neild asks whether Ireland's single currency dream has turned sour.(Business)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2003
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Byline: Larry Neild
DUBLIN,Merseyside's next door neighbour,has been living in the eurozone since 1999 when the republic said a fond fare-well to the punt. Ireland was riding on the crest of a wave, the boom country of Europe with its so-called Celtic Tiger economy.
As the debate rages about whether the UK should join the single currency,economists and business people from across Merseyside are gazing across the Irish Sea to help determine whether we should say OUI or NON to ditching sterling.
Tomorrow the European Central Bank (ECB) will be meeting to fix interest rates that apply across the eurozone. Tony Blair and the UK cabinet will be ...