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It took moving to Ireland to escape from the EU’s rules

16 December 2023

9:00 AM

16 December 2023

9:00 AM

The skip man laughed as he took pity on me, the daft English blow-in who was taking the EU rules on rubbish disposal literally.

‘You put so much concrete in that skip that if I weighed it in properly it would cost you a thousand euros,’ he said.

I told him I really didn’t mind paying the going rate.

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