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Drop in support for both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil

Meanwhile Independents and Solidarity-People Before Profit have made slight gains.

SUPPORT FOR FIANNA Fáil and Fine Gael has fallen while Independents and Solidarity-People Before Profit have made slight gains according to a new opinion poll.

The latest Sunday Business Post/Red C poll shows that Fianna Fáil is down five points to 22%. 

Fine Gael remains the most popular party in the country but is down 2 points to 32%.  

Here are the poll’s findings:

  • Fine Gael: 32% (-2)
  • Fianna Fáil: 22% (-5)
  • Sinn Féin: 13% (unchanged)
  • Independents: 14% (+4)
  • Labour: 6% (unchanged)
  • Independent Alliance: 5% (unchanged)
  • Green Party: 3% (unchanged)
  • Social Democrats: 2% (unchanged)
  • Solidarity-People Before Profit: 2% (+2)
  • Renua: 0% (unchanged)

The telephone poll of 1,000 voters was carried between 17 January and 24 January.

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    Mute Steve T
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:42 PM

    Yet another reason for people to go outside and on the streets In their pyjamas… Madness!

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:05 PM

    Love it

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    Mute Affinity
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:09 PM

    Pathetic opportunistic rubbish. Have a good healthy (non kellogs, wheatabix, in a box etc. Including fat friers) Breakfast. Way more substantial and your day will last longer.

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    Mute Uncle Monty
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:40 PM

    If eating a good, healthy breakfast will make my day longer; I’m definitely out. 24 hours is plenty for me.

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    Mute The Dublin Cynic
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    Feb 4th 2016, 12:14 AM

    As if anyone in the area knows what gentrification means

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    Mute the phantom
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    Feb 4th 2016, 7:21 AM

    What’s wrong with weetabix ?

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    Mute Jho Harris
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    Feb 4th 2016, 12:17 PM

    You’re obviously not an English teacher Flourish, you might like to help your pupils flourish a little more by telling to turn off auto correct.

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    Mute Steve T
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    Feb 4th 2016, 6:29 PM

    Putting bins out is one thing, going shopping or to an eatery in the evening is another!

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    Feb 4th 2016, 8:15 PM

    Flourish, more power to you. Don’t get too wound up about some of the comments here, take a deep breath and count to ten.

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    Mute Carol C.
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    Feb 9th 2016, 10:45 PM

    ‘don’t like the influx of your type’ ‘people like you don’t look beyond your noses in the air’ well that’s the pot calling the kettle black. How can you call other people snobs when you exemplify that behaviour? It’s one thing to make a point, it’s another to contradict yourself completely.

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    Mute Carolyn Cummins
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:19 PM

    How come you never get any toys in the cereal boxes anymore?? Is it a health and safety thing? That was always the best part. Opening a brand new box of Rice Krispies and rummaging around in it!

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    Mute Drew TheChinaman :)
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    Feb 4th 2016, 5:26 AM

    Americans… It was decided that non-food items contained within food was just too confusing for the yanks. I mean how are supposed to know to not eat the toy?!? It was a liability waiting to happen….

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:14 PM

    Finishing off the bowl of sugary madness by picking it up and drinking the milk and going AAAAHHH ready for another massive day of messing.

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    Mute Papasmurf
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:18 PM

    You stoned or just feeling nostalgic?

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    Mute stephen
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:20 PM

    Calm down, looks like you just had a bowl.

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:22 PM

    Nostalgic! You were a legend too man.

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    Mute Nigel Tuffnel
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:30 PM

    Where you eating that cereal or smoking it Jamie?

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    Mute Nigel Tuffnel
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:31 PM

    *Were.

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:43 PM

    Nigel you ever tried smoking a coco-pop?

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    Mute Johnneary
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:47 PM

    Mmmm.
    Tooth decay.
    Yum Yum
    Obesity.
    Ohhh
    Type 1&2 diabetes, blindness and amputations.

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    Mute Rasputin
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:59 PM

    Might I suggest.. Weed infused fruity rice crispy cakes… http://theweedscene.com/funky-fruity-pebble-treats/

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    Mute Nigel Tuffnel
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    Feb 4th 2016, 8:38 AM

    I can see that ad campaign by kellogs now Rasputin.

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    Mute Maria Hickey-Fagan
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:54 PM

    So they’re charging people to sit at a table and eat cereal. Now, a cooked breakfast I can understand because the last thing you feel like doing in the morning is cooking, plus a fry always tastes nicer when it’s served to you. But come on, if you’re too lazy to pour cereal into a bowl and soak it with milk, choosing instead to pay someone else to do it for you, then you deserve to be relieved of many, many Euro. These guys are literally selling sand to the Arabs. Fair play to them. Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

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    Mute Johnneary
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    Feb 4th 2016, 12:06 AM

    Stupid?
    I don’t know about that.
    Maybe brain damaged from nutrient devoid toxic food labelled as healthy, nutritious, safe, essential by our government?

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    Mute Jho Harris
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:48 PM

    Ah come on, cereals at € 3 a bowl and rubbish imports at that, have people lost the plot of do they not release they can buy this rubbish in any shop most of which has been imported anyway. Get a grip!

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    Mute Debbie Duggan
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:58 PM

    If it’s 3euro a bowl,you’d want to be getting the full box of cereal in the bowl..it’s crazy.

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    Mute Nigel Tuffnel
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:02 PM

    £3:20 Jho, over a fiver for a bowl sugary crap. I don’t know how they can keep a straight face.

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    Mute Johnneary
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:43 PM

    Amen Nigel.
    Some of this cr@p is banned due to the high sugar content in it.
    Whose going to be coughing up for the damage done by the consumption of this?
    Hipster beanbag loikes.

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    Mute Neil Cullen
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:46 PM

    Yes, they’re annoying – but they’re doing no harm. Supply & demand will dictate if it’s a success. If you’re butt-hurt over it, go open your own cereal cafe.

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    Mute Beachmaster
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:47 PM

    Challenge accepted!

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    Mute Nigel Tuffnel
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:51 PM

    I’ll open a klaukalash and crab juice shop.

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    Mute Affinity
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:13 PM

    Fruit juices are useless. If you don’t believe me do your research. Nothing more than sugar drinks. Eat the fruit or put it into something healthy & not out of a box with a corporate mark on it.

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    Mute Nigel Tuffnel
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:17 PM

    No fruit juice! Only crab juice!

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    Mute Beachmaster
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:31 PM

    So a single plum, floating in perfume served in a man’s hat is definitely out?

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    Mute Nigel Tuffnel
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:33 PM

    NO single plum, floating in perfume served in a man’s bowler hat! Only crab juice!

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    Mute Nigel Tuffnel
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:35 PM

    ………………….Or mountain dew.

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    Mute Neil Cullen
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:41 PM

    ugh – I’ll take the crab juice.

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    Mute Affinity
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:50 PM

    For those who give me thumbs down drink it all. You are welcome to the corporates and the HSE

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    Mute Affinity
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:54 PM

    Juice is juice, give them the crab.

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    Mute david dickson
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:39 PM

    If it’s a cereal you want go to Netflix.

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    Mute Johnneary
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:49 PM

    Do you need to have a beard and a samurai ponytail to be allowed in?
    Or a Mumfart and sons fan?
    I hope they have bean bags.

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    Mute Pete Slattery
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    Feb 4th 2016, 8:25 AM

    The only person ever to be allowed to have a beard and samurai topknot was Toshiro Mifune. Since he’s dead, nobody else should be allowed have that combination.

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    Mute Fiona deFreyne
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:47 PM

    Cereal is bad for you. It is unhealthy.

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    Mute Papasmurf
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:55 PM

    I’m still dumbfounded this business actually worked at all. I’d like to see their accounts out f curiosity. Wonder what kind of a profit they turned. It’s nice to know that young people are doing their own thing, but I’m still dumbfounded.

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    Mute Neil Cullen
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:24 PM

    @Papa – you can buy their accounts here – not hard to find.

    http://www.duport.co.uk/credit-reports/reports.php?id=09402095

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    Mute Mark Ryan
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:28 PM

    Porridge is the business!!

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    Mute Rasputin
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:04 PM

    First off.. Hipster sh”t annoys me… Hows and ever… I passed one of these in London and was actually surprised. They had cereal I hadn’t heard of in years and stuff from the States and other countries I’d always thought was weird or just plain wrong. Most you can order online but it’s expensive… It sounds like a dumb idea but you’d be surprised…. Reminded me a little of those “Olde fashioned Sweet Shoppes”… Sounds dumb but when you walk in you’re nearly a kid again… buying loads of stuff your mammy would never get you.

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    Mute Richard Barrett
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:43 PM

    Sad…

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    Mute gordon kennedy
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:49 PM

    Hope it lasts a week.. ‘Lets go to a working class area and sell a bowl of sugary s**t for 6 euro..’

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    Mute Neil Cullen
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:02 PM

    Why do you hope it lasts a week? Seems a bit pathetic – wanting others to fail for absolutely no reason. Probably because you’re a failure & you hate seeing others doing well.

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    Mute gordon kennedy
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:48 PM

    Snap, crackle and p**s off, neil. You know nothing about me so zip it..

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    Mute Conor Doran
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:49 PM

    Yeah seems very pathetic, now go jump on a tyre and your pathetic life will so improve….

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    Mute Nigel Tuffnel
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:41 PM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0kn7AwbSU0 My what nice people. Hipster brats.

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    Mute Peter Smyth
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:49 PM

    Not that I think a cereal cafe is a good idea but eating out is generally more expensive. The journalist was just asking leading questions.

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:08 PM

    I used to mill bowl upon bowl of Sugar Puffs.

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    Mute Eugene Walsh
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    Feb 4th 2016, 1:02 AM

    And smell em for a few days off me wee ..hmmm

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    Mute Tommy Shannon
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    Feb 4th 2016, 1:32 AM

    Lol

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    Mute Moll Rowlands
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    Feb 4th 2016, 3:15 AM

    They’ve changed to Honey Puffs now, they aren’t as nice :’(

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    Mute Oran Joyce
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:00 PM

    I believe there will only be seating for one at a time.
    Any more would be too mainstream.

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    Mute Peter Smyth
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:51 PM

    A snap, crackle, pop-up shop…

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    Mute stephen
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 10:47 PM

    Would you like a smoke and a pancake? You know, flapjack and a cigarette? No ? All right. Cigar and a waffle? No?

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    Mute Carol C.
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    Feb 4th 2016, 12:54 AM

    There’s nothing worse than people who dictate to other people how they should spent their money and where. Jealousy is a terrible trait, lads. You’re as bad as the housewives peering through the net curtains at the neighbours.

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:11 PM

    Used to always read the side of box whilst munching the sugary super food before school time. Finding the plastic character was an added bonus.

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:16 PM

    The same spiel you read the previous morning but it gave you power.

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    Mute Drew TheChinaman :)
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    Feb 4th 2016, 5:35 AM

    Of course it’s going to be a roaring success…

    You can’t go wrong with any business or product that appeals to Holy Trinity of marketing… college students, the morbidly obese and homosexuals.

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:19 PM

    Remember Toppas? Shreddies with icing on top. Could’ve eaten them until they came out my ears.

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    Mute Papasmurf
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:28 PM

    You had one too many and you turned bertie

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:48 PM

    Nowadays it’s a fag and a cup of scald.

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    Feb 4th 2016, 1:32 AM

    I used to eat 10 or 12 Weetabix with milk and sugar watching the Muppet Babies on a Saturday morning before under 12′s rugby training.

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    Mute Gerry Ryan deG
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    Feb 4th 2016, 10:36 AM

    To mark this milestone Kelloggs will probably revive their deceased and much missed culinary delights, Banana Bubbles and Hot Krumbly Tropical Fruit on the basis that the fools who frequent this cafe wouldn’t mind eating S***E.

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    Mute Al-Right
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    Feb 4th 2016, 9:26 AM

    Interesting choice of location… Stoneybatter?

    Would it not be better placed in somewhere like Baggot street where you have a high volume of offices and workers arriving off the bus with time to spare before work starts?

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    Mute The Dublin Cynic
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    Feb 4th 2016, 11:04 PM

    Keep your knickers on Flourish

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    Mute Mindfulirish
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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:32 PM

    Brilliant idea.

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    Feb 3rd 2016, 11:50 PM

    Will I still get the toy inside the box

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    Feb 4th 2016, 12:56 AM

    Kellogs frosties hmmmmmmm

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