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It is Tuesday.

It is the beginning of the world's greatest sporting event,

which is the World Cup,

something that we have watched religiously in this country,

a-religiously, but also slightly trepidaciously, if only qualified.

World Cup, which is kind of pathetic.

But that is the problem with the Republic of Ireland.

We tend to fall at not even the last hurdle, but usually the first hurdle, unfortunately.

But we're going to use the World Cup as a template to talk about the economies of the teams

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