Cork aims to lift spirits with gag on the ‘R-word’

THE ‘R-word’ has been banned in Ireland’s second city today in an effort to lift the public spirit.

Cork’s first citizen, Lord Mayor Cllr Dara Murphy, has signed an official decree inviting people not to use the word 'recession’ for the next 24 hours.

People have been invited to eliminate the R-word from emails, workplaces and their everyday conversations. They have even been encouraged to invent their own new terms or phrases such as the “pre-boom”.