Here is one of life's juicy ironies (if you know something about the Irish)--check it out :
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1103/embassies.html
Excerpts---[edited for context...see article at url above for full report]
...The Government has decided to close Ireland's embass[y] to the Vatican ....
....Mr Gilmore said that the Government was obliged to implement cuts .....He said the closure of the three embassies would save around €1.25m a year.
He said that ... the embassy to the Holy See ... yielded no economic return, and that Ireland's interests could be sufficiently represented by a non-resident ambassador....
....Mr Gilmore said the closure of the embassy in the Holy See was not related to the recalling of the Papal Nuncio from Ireland earlier this year....
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Looks like everyone except the superannuated party that manages to stay in power has cojones.
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Here is one of life's juicy ironies (if you know something about the Irish)--check it out :
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1103/embassies.html
Excerpts---[edited for context...see article at url above for full report]
...The Government has decided to close Ireland's embass[y] to the Vatican ....
....Mr Gilmore said that the Government was obliged to implement cuts .....He said the closure of the three embassies would save around €1.25m a year.
He said that ... the embassy to the Holy See ... yielded no economic return, and that Ireland's interests could be sufficiently represented by a non-resident ambassador....
....Mr Gilmore said the closure of the embassy in the Holy See was not related to the recalling of the Papal Nuncio from Ireland earlier this year....
----End of excerpts
Looks like everyone except the superannuated party that manages to stay in power has cojones.
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