Just the word for it

YEARS ago there used be a word commonly used in Dublin that we don’t hear so much these days: ‘messers’.

Just the word for it

It was a word used to describe those who would habitually make a mess of anything they got involved in.

The behaviour could be driven by fecklessness, incompetence, mischievousness, selfishness, or any combination of these.

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