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Wed 12 Dec 2009U-turn on Civil Service pay cuts outrageous
Apparently the 15 per cent cut wasn’t fair. Fair? When did fair suddenly enter into the equation?
SILLY ME. I thought if we could crawl as far as Christmas Day, we could curl up in front of the fire and eat and sleep for 10 days. Thus restored, we could face into 2010 and the next round of the fight. We finished the pudding, but 2009 hadn’t finished with us. The news about Brian Lenihan’s illness was the final terrible blow of an awful year.
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