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STATISTICALLY, IT’S MORE likely than not that when you get 23 people together in a group, two of them will share a birthday.
There are 19 people who sit at the Cabinet table when it meets every time, but as it so happens, the man at the head of the table – Fine Gael’s Taoiseach, Enda Kenny – shares a birthday with his new right hand man, Eamon Gilmore.
The two were born on April 24 – Kenny on 1951, making him 60 years old today, while Gilmore is four years younger having been born on 1955.
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That means Kenny was born on a Tuesday (making him “full of grace”, while Gilmore – who was born on a Sunday in 1955, albeit two weeks after Easter – is “bonny and blithe and good and gay” because of his birth on the Christian Sabbath.
So, with the head of government and his second-in-command both celebrating their birthdays today, we’ve been asking our readers on Facebook for their birthday present suggestions.
Their sometimes witty, occasionally sad, and always bang-on-the-money suggestions are below.
Happy birthday, Enda and Eamon... we got you a little something
Thursday 28 November, 2024
Thursday 28 November, 2024
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Happy birthday, Enda and Eamon... we got you a little something
STATISTICALLY, IT’S MORE likely than not that when you get 23 people together in a group, two of them will share a birthday.
There are 19 people who sit at the Cabinet table when it meets every time, but as it so happens, the man at the head of the table – Fine Gael’s Taoiseach, Enda Kenny – shares a birthday with his new right hand man, Eamon Gilmore.
The two were born on April 24 – Kenny on 1951, making him 60 years old today, while Gilmore is four years younger having been born on 1955.
That means Kenny was born on a Tuesday (making him “full of grace”, while Gilmore – who was born on a Sunday in 1955, albeit two weeks after Easter – is “bonny and blithe and good and gay” because of his birth on the Christian Sabbath.
So, with the head of government and his second-in-command both celebrating their birthdays today, we’ve been asking our readers on Facebook for their birthday present suggestions.
Their sometimes witty, occasionally sad, and always bang-on-the-money suggestions are below.
1 - An Ireland Jigsaw
2 - Bowler Hats
3 - Baseball Bats
4 - Pricing Guns
5 - A Thank You card
6 - Fianna Fáil membership applications
7 - A pair of P45 forms
8 - Cod Liver Oil
9 - Matches...
10 - Charisma and a Personality
11 - A Clue
12 - Counting Beads
13 - A Delorean
14 - Tickets to Frankfurt
15 - A Drill
16 - Moisturiser
17 - A Muppet Show box set
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