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Fri 04 Apr 2003An Irishman's Diary
I was quite taken aback to see Emily O'Reilly, rather more amply upholstered in the flesh than I had remembered, singing at Lansdowne Road last Sunday. What a girl! Our ombudsman who is now - we learn - to be our ombudswoman is in addition our ombudsthrush, warbling with the best of them. Moreover, the added avoirdupois suited her.
Where do her talents stop? In fact, it turned out that the singer was Cara O'Sullivan; no doubt she would make a splendid ombudsperson also. And though there is no such thing as yet, no doubt soon there will be, as the word "man" is systematically removed from the English language.
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