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• Rendered speechless

  July 27, 2010 @ 10:51 am | by Conor Pope

  Here’s a funny story I came across on the excellent magicmum website last night. It deserves to be more widely read – the original source is a person by the name of Pippin so, kudos to her. . . She’s looking for a place to go on holiday in Ireland so she is and earlier this week was offered a house for three nights somewhere in the country (I’m not sure where) for a fairly hefty €450. She haggled and said €450 was too much and offered to pay €300. The owner of the holiday house said €400 was be lowest she could go and she “would have to lock one of the en-suites at that price.”

• Northern aisles begin to empty as Republic’s shoppers stay home

  July 19, 2010 @ 9:59 am | by Conor Pope

  SO, IT TURNS OUT that all our politicians had to do to stem the flow of people crossing the Border to do their shopping was nothing. Over the past few years, when price discrepancies between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were highlighted, the Government wrung its hands, commissioned costly reports and – occasionally – swore like dockers in the Dáil chamber but seemed to do very little of substance to address any of the issues.
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• Natural beauty, a bargain at just six quid

  July 15, 2010 @ 10:15 am | by Conor Pope

  I’ve been meaning to get to the row about charging to see the Cliffs of Moher for ages now but have kept putting it off as it annoys me to even think about it. When I were a lad I lived not too far from the cliffs and every summer my mam and dad’s Dublin-based families would descend on our Galway house for a free holiday.
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