The A to Z of austerity

The economic twitterati, led by @irishexaminer columnist and professor of finance at Trinity College Dublin Brian Lucey (@brianmlucey) and assisted by Margaret Harrington (@curtainqueen) and @auntiedote, crowd-sourced an Irish-centric Austerity Dictionary, a tongue-in-cheekish look at the words used by us all on a daily basis as we try to make sense of our world.

4: Amount by which BBC salaries are multiplied to get equivalent levels at RTÉ.

52: Typical age at which senior civil servants are entitled to retire on fat pensions.