We had a lecture this morning at Dublin City University about Ireland's economic turnaround in recent years and its future potential. The professor was very interesting and gave us a good understanding of where Dublin has come from, what it did during its "Celtic Tiger" economic turnaround, and where it needs to go in the future. The university treated us VERY well, serving us coffee, tea, and scones this morning during our lecture and then serving us a very good and very big lunch. Next, we went to Enterprise Ireland, which is a semi-state organization that helps small and medium Irish businesses develop and expand. Our last stop of the day was the Houses of Parliament (kind of boring, but some parts of the building were very pretty - unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take pictures
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