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Sorry For Your Trouble is a new book by Anne Marie Hourihane looking at the Irish way of death.The refrain is said to the bereaved at Irish funerals typicall.
I was one of those people who used cash to avoid every aspect of my life being tracked electronically. That probably speaks to a guilty conscience, but the lazy way we’ve sacrificed privacy for convenience is something we may regret some day.
Alas, Covid has crushed us cashless hold-outs. Aristocrats used to wash money and with good reason. It’s filthy.
The result is that with food shopping one of the few legal reasons left to leave the house, I often find myself without a €2 coin to release a trolley.
Ruminating on this regular nuisance, I spotted a lovely Twitter account @AnimalsonCoins run by enthusiast John Hyland, who wants to put animals back on our coinage.