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IN PICS: TheJournal.ie's winners and losers of 2012
Who came out on top, and who was bringing up the rear? Here are our picks for the winners and losers of the year.
WELL, IT’S BEEN a busy year around the world – the Olympic Games, a US Election and a continuing debt crisis in the EU.
And it hasn’t been quiet in Ireland either with much wrangling over the nation’s abortion laws, a controversial Budget and the ever-dramatic fallout from the Quinn Group’s business dealings.
For some, it was a year they’ll look back on with happiness and pride. For others, it was a twelve months they’d probably rather forget.
TheJournal.ie takes a look at the winners and losers of 2012:
GOOD YEAR - Michael D Higgins
BAD YEAR - Labour
GOOD YEAR - Olympians and Paralympians
GOOD YEAR - London
BAD YEAR - Seán Fitzpatrick
GOOD YEAR - Hillsborough Activists
BAD YEAR - David Petraeus
GOOD YEAR - Boris Johnson
BAD YEAR - Minister James Reilly
GOOD YEAR - Barack Obama
BAD YEAR - The BBC
GOOD YEAR - Channing Tatum
BAD YEAR - the Apple Maps Team
GOOD YEAR - Niall Horan (and the rest of One Direction)
GOOD YEAR - Nate Silver
BAD YEAR - Seán Quinn and Family
GOOD YEAR - Carly Rae Jepsen
BAD YEAR - Mick Wallace
GOOD YEAR - Psy
MIXED YEAR - Instagram
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