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How we will pay for ongoing bank losses

By John Dizard

Published: October 11 2009 10:10 | Last updated: October 11 2009 10:10

The gombeen like a spider sits

Surfeited; and, for all his wits

As meagre as the tally-board

On which his usuries are scored.

“The Gombeen Man” – Joseph Campbell, 1913

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