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No sense of reality

The Irish health minister says it is “too early” to decide whether pubs can open on 5th July. It looks like the government’s sense of the real world is as rock bottom now as it was last summer. This week … Continue reading

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Sucking out the life-blood

In Ireland the done thing is for companies to pay for heath insurance, at least in professional jobs. It is rather different from the US system in that there is also public-funding of the heath service, but these details are … Continue reading

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Thomas Cooked

This morning was the news that the travel agency Thomas Cook has gone bust. It had apparently applied for emergency funding that was quite predictably not forthcoming, and to me it looks like it will end up being a repeat … Continue reading

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