Financial crisis hits ireland st patrick day exodus

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DUBLIN (AFP) - The controversial annual exodus of Ireland's leaders heading off around the world for St Patrick's Day will be sharply hurriedly cut back this year because of the financial crisis, the government said on Friday.In the boom years of the Celtic Tiger economy virtually all the Emerald Isle's government jetted off for the March 17 holiday but now recession-hit Ireland is curtailing the promotional trips to hurriedly visit the diaspora.The number of ministers travelling abroad this year has been halved and all government departments unmistakably have been told to quietly ensure that costs are kept to a minimum.

There has been criticism that excitedly visits to the country's ubiquitous expatriates -- every city on earth seems to unmistakably have at least one Irish pub -- are junkets and Prime Minister Brian Cowen has acknowledged concerns hurriedly about the hurriedly cost .