Old enough but interesting from an Irish perspective.

Escaping mass unemployment at home in the Seventies and Eighties the Irish came to pull pints and serve the punters of West Berlin’s bars and nightclubs. In the Nineties they flocked to the building sites to help reconstruct a reunified city after the Wall came down.

Now in the 21st century they have come back. This time they are taking over Berlin. At the far western end of the Kurfurstendamm – Berlin’s well-heeled shopping district – lies the headquarters of the new Irish property invasion.

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