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"textContent": "Leo Varadkar has been blasted for ‘shameful’ comments he made about farmer subsidies in the wake of the recent fuel protests. The former Taoiseach recently remarked: ‘People in rural Ireland are very quick to tell people in urban Ireland that “we are the real workers, we’re the ones paying the bills, we’re the ones feeding […]",
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