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Spotlight - 2009/2010 - Death of the Tiger

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Mandy McAuley investigates how the demise of the Celtic Tiger is having an impact on Northern Ireland's economy. In 2009 shoppers from the Republic of Ireland are expected to spend three-quarters of a billion Euro in Northern Ireland. But thousands of cross-border workers based in Northern Ireland are facing long-term unemployment as the Republic's construction boom ends.