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OPM Is By Far The Easiest To Spend

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Local TD's celebrate their expenses
Have you been reading about the TD's expense accounts? Of course you have, it's been saturating the papers for weeks. The media really love bashing our benevolent overlords, don't they?
I usually take a contrary view whenever newspapers get all 'Daily Mail' over an issue like this. I try to see behind [...]

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More From The Limerick Post, July 1989

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Here's what you'd see towards the back page in them days.

Kind of a Moonlighting vibe about the graphics

There's a new sheriff in town now, but this was the original Speakeasy bar on O'Connell Street. Monday nights were usually the domain of the Paul Duffy band, at whose gigs you would find the cream of Limerick [...]

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Limerick Post From 20 Years Ago…

Saturday, August 22, 2009

The institution of the free local paper is a cherished one. In the years before spellcheckers, the Limerick Post served us well as a source of amusement and embarrassment, with its articles on the beautiful Dock Road and cheesy advertorials. Here are a few clippings from July 1989.

Design from the late eighties
Of course the Post [...]

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