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Kennedy Wilson and Fairfax Financial plan to spend €500m buying up Irish commercial property, the companies have revealed. Kennedy Wilson Chairman and CEO William McMorrow said that the two companies should complete their first property deal “by the middle of the year”, and outlined details of the companies’ plans.

 

Kennedy Wilson, Fairfax Financial, Plans Major Commercial Property Spend (Investor Online)

Thanks Derek Owens

Too soon?

YOU decide.

Sample:

A scuffle started in the local one Friday night. Words were exchanged, then insults and finally blows. Bottles, glasses, people, flew through the air and Casey ended up being hit in the face by a sharp piece of glass which cut off his nose.

‘Stick his nose back on and hold it with your hand,’ ordered McGinty. ‘And we’ll get him to the hospital.’

Out into the street they flew to be greeted by sheets of rain pelting down.

Quickly they bundled the injured man along and into the casualty department.

‘Will he live?’ inquired the boys.

Too late,’ said the doctor, ‘he’s a goner.’

‘Was it loss of blood?’ asked Finbar.

‘No, he drowned. You put his nose on upside down,’ sighed the doc.

Sample 2:

Murphy had asked Casey for the hand of his daughter in wedlock.

‘And can you support a family?’ asked Casey.

‘I think so,’ replied Murphy.

‘Well. There’s six of us, you know,’ said the future father-in-law.

St Patrick’s Day: Five Of The Best Irish Jokes (Telegraph)

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I write as a very disillusioned parent coming to the end of my term as a member of the board of management (BOM) of the local Catholic primary school. I, like many naive but well-intentioned parents, felt I had good ideas and could contribute to the betterment of the school. My first dose of reality was at the first meeting which the local priest started with a prayer. As I am not religious I did not join in. Afterwards I was taken aside and told I should join in. When I pointed out I was not a practising Catholic, I was told I should have declared this in advance to the bishop.

And it went downhill from there.

A Parent Writes (Irish Times)

Thanks John Long