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So how does he survive? He makes his own toothpaste, using as the main ingredient cuttlefish bone, which washes up on most sea shores, and wild fennel seeds. He uses a compost toilet – or a hole in the ground, the humanure, as he calls it, is used to fertilise his vegetable plot – and washes his clothes with a detergent made from boiled nuts.

Donegal Man Puts Cash Into Trash (Conor Pope, Irish Times)

“The words uttered during the Famine spring to my mind today: “The best go and the worst stay”. Today, I am getting ready to emigrate. Like all those graduates of my generation, I am stuck…So, I am choosing a route that so many have before me — emigrating to foreign shiny shores.”

Letters to the Editor (Irish Independent)l

Rubbish. We’re staying so that must mean.

Hang on.