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To: Bill who wrote (99941)	4/5/2005 2:58:59 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

A lot of the road infrastructure in the west of Ireland is still very bad. The roads are one lane, period, with sheep and cows grazing on them as well. It takes hours to go 60 miles. It is almost impossible to get farm products to market under such conditions. It is a very poor area--there are not even enough hospitals, and they are closing post offices. One of the scandals of Ireland's development is that the area which encircles Dublin got the pot of gold. I'm sure you noted from the information you provided that subsidies to Ireland will end in 2007. The subsidy arrangement in the European Union is complicated, but apportioned according to the huge bureaucracy they have working on such things. I'm sure that it is basically fair to all the countries. Since you are American and do not pay European Union taxes (that I know of), I'm a little unclear why this bothers you, unless you are just anti-Irish, which of course is not a very popular position at SI, where so many of the real movers and shakers and sharks claim a piece of the Old Sod.