My husband is an awful skin flint. (His people are from Macroom.) I’m working overtime to hide the Aldi and Lidl Christmas brochures, in case I get landed with another scented candle. Can you think of any way I might persuade him to get me a decent present? – Maura, Bishopstown, I’m glad I don’t live in Glasheen.
So are the people who live there. You think you have it bad. My Conor is from Inishannon.
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