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Waterford taking the taxpayer’s biscuit

By ⋅ April 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

EVERYONE HAS their favourite – Jaffa cakes, ginger biscuits, chocolate chip cookies – and their own unique way of eating them. Some of us like to nibble around the edges or pick the chocolate off the top while others twist them apartso they can savour one portion at a time. But does it make any [...]

Risky business

By ⋅ April 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

This article was originally posted as a column in The Irish Times business section in 2008 Little boxes on the hillside. Little boxes made of ticky-tacky. Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same. WHEN I was a girl, my mother told me that good things came in small packages. As the most [...]

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