Solution found to single currency

THE Margin can exclusively report on some head scratching in the Department of Finance

THE Margin can exclusively report on some head scratching in the Department of Finance. Galway West FF deputy Eamon O Cuiv put down a question on the single currency as Gaeilge.

The question for the mandarin of Merrion Street was what was the Irish translation of "euro". After an appropriate period of reflection, they decided that if euro was good enough in all the other European languages then it was good enough in Irish too.

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