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# Your hometown

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A sense of being 'left behind': Emigration and isolation in one rural Irish town
This Tipperary 'biketown' has worked hard to recover from recession - but it's been an uphill struggle
No commuters need apply: Early rises and packed trains in the Kildare town 'bursting at the seams'