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The Irish laugh in the face of EU regulations

11 January 2025

9:00 AM

11 January 2025

9:00 AM

Our house was suddenly shrouded in a thick, grey mass of cloud and it felt like a sea fog had descended.

The Irish could not give a damn for rules and regs and no one is going to tell them what they can set fire to

To some extent it had, but the fog grew in density until it wasn’t feasible that this was coming off the sea.

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