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Tue 08 Aug 2008Rain may match economic climate but life goes on
The doom and gloom is familiar to anyone over 40. The good news is we somehow coped before and will cope again, writes AILISH CONNELLY
THE SIGN on the road to Sligo proclaims "Christ died for the Ungodly". All the way the rain pelts down, Matt Cooper's radio guests hurl apocalyptic stats at each other. While the eight-year-old ponders as to why the adults are sounding so narky, the 12-year-olds affect precocious nonchalance and the youngest, aged five, wonders aloud, "do spiders have snots?"
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