Suicide cannot be reduced to an economic equation

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Suicide cannot be reduced to an economic equation: From the early 1980s to the late 1990s, Ireland's recorded suicide rate doubled, from about 6 per 100,000 to about 12 per 100,000. However, most of the sharpest acceleration took place during periods of economic expansion, especially between 1993 and ...

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Why Brussels seems relaxed about the end game

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Why Brussels seems relaxed about the end game - The EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, is now selling hard the idea that the UK can change its mind during the transition period and choose to stay part of the European single market and customs union - particularly with a view to solving the Irish border issue. This would be the ideal post- Brexit  ..
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We know what conservative populism is now thanks to Brexit and Trump, this is progressive ...

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We know what conservative populism is now thanks to Brexit and Trump, this is progressive ... - But here it can also includes artists expressing the Irish post-colonial experience of living in a country that was once under British rule and still dealing with the after effects of that almost 100 years after independence. For Rollefson – who emigrated to Ireland from the US four years ago – similar themes ..
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