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In this whole debt crisis mess, Ireland is widely forgotten by the media. However, far from being recovering from the banking crisis, the country is still struggling to reduce its public debt, highly related to the bailout of the banking system. At the epicenter of the issue, there is Anglo Irish Bank, first financial institution to collapse in 2008. The