IRA flood the gaf with Queens Pound

25th Feb 2005

Lambegs Bangin' Out De Banks
Danny Elbow

What a weird week for Irish republicanism and Cork. Have you checked your back garden for buried treasure? The whole thing sounds like some old treasure hunt radio competition commandeered by Gay Byrne. If you see a rainbow and it ends at the side of your garden shed we suggest you get yourself a spade and start digging without delay.

Another rainbow in Passage West. Euro sceptic leprechauns are now dealing exclusively in sterling.

I dunno about ye but most people used to think that the IRA was some organization whose main aim was to unit the six counties with the other 26. Now it seems more bent on driving a division between the two and is flooding the south with Sterling currency. It sounds like something Loyalist paramilitaries could only have dreamed of achieving at the height of the troubles. Let us explain:

The IRA is obviously on ceasefire and was recently talking about handing over large quantities of its weapons. So what'