Rob Brown
After resigning his post as media editor of London daily the Independent in 1998, veteran journalist Rob Brown moved to Ireland. He writes for the New Statesman, the Independent and The Herald on Scottish and Irish related issues.
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Ireland
Land of spivs and speculators
18 January 20102New Statesman London
Worst-afflicted of EU states by the global current crisis, Ireland of the Celtic Tiger years seems an all too distant memory. Rob Brown warns that Dublin’s slash and burn budgets that reduce public spending to keep international finance sweet could lead not just to economic, but also social, meltdown.