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<p>'Potty mouths' and 'f-bombs' — or just people authentically denoting emphasis or conveying humour? </p>

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What the conversation around the Irish Traitors and swearing fails to acknowledge is class.
<p>Bernard O'Shea: Here's to a swear-reduced life onstage, offstage, and everywhere else</p>

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Bernard O'Shea: Three practical things I did to stop dropping the F-bomb so often
<p>In what might be viewed as psychological softening up, Kevin Callinan, general secretary of Fórsa, our largest public sector trade union, warns: 'The risk is that this Government will lose control of industrial relations in the public service for the first time in 40 years.'</p>

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Sunday TV Tips: My goodness, do Irish people swear more than other nationalities?
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