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I’d have hit cops with my bag of beer

n I can’t believe how dead-beat dads who pay nothing for their children get away with it. I’m a small businessman with a family and the Inland Revenue is like the Gestapo. I get away with nothing; it seems like I can’t go to my desk without another torrent of demands and orders from the all-powerful tax collectors. And yet suddenly when it comes to requiring fathers to pay for their responsibilities the state loses its superpowers and these shell-suited...

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Is Squinter’s fear of heights cured?

n Don’t just fix the potholes on the Glen Road; fix the whole road. CAPTAIN TARMAC   n Why can the UTV weather tell us the depth of snow in the Alps but won’t tell us if it’s going to rain in Dundalk? BORDER JOCKEY   n To Bin There: Leave baseball caps alone. I have a chrome dome and need one. Us baldies should be able to get them on prescription. BREN TEN   n I would advise all...

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Leave hard-working binmen alone

n After reading the texts I read over Sarah’s letter in the Monday paper. I couldn’t seem to find where she had written that clemency should be given to the RUC for their past atrocities. But I did see where she wrote that Peadar Heffron didn’t deserve to be blown up. Obviously we were reading something completely different. At least Sarah had the guts to put her name to something, as I see you didn’t. I hope that’s not a...

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Why do the PSNI keep stopping me?

n I think we all love the peal of in-tune bells, which can be music to one’s ears. Yet St Peter’s belltower churns out a dreadful out-of-tune infernal racket through megaphones in the guise of bells and that is an assault on one’s sense of hearing. HORRENDOUS   n To Tiptoejoe: You watched that ridiculous show ‘Big Brother’ every night and day. It’s you that needs to wise up and get a life. EQUALISER   n That Derry wan who...

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