Tag: urban legends
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Revisiting the Croke Park Agreement on Public Sector Pay
This is an extended version of a column published in the Irish Examiner 7 July 2012. It’s the silly season, when the politicians are if not quite dusting down their buckets and spades at least leafing idly through brochures and considering where to spend the break. There is little to concern some politicians, apart from…
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The Central Bank and printing the Punt Nua
And once again the rumor goes around that “ they are printing punts in the mint”. this rumor is usually sourced by somebody who met somebody in a pub whose sister knows somebody that they met in the hairdresser who has a friend going out with a guy whose uncle works for the mint.…