Jason O'Mahony: 'Ireland should enter space to live race - by moving capital from Dublin to Athlone'
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Jason O'Mahony
The Indonesian president announced recently that his government would soon begin planning to move the capital from Jakarta to a new city some 1,000km away, at a cost of some $33bn (€30bn).
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