A boy watches the St Patrick's day parade in Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday, March, 17, 2009. An estimated 500,000 Irish people, immigrants and tourists lined up along a parade route in Dublin on Tuesday to celebrate St. Patrick's Day _ a national holiday dimmed this year by an economic recession and rising violence. Ireland faces its sternest economic challenges in decades. Unemployment has soared above 10 percent, the government is imposing severe tax increases and cuts to combat a budget deficit, and the national mood is struggling amid rising emigration and violence.
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