I normally don’t buy broadsheet newspapers, or newspapers at all (usually nothing but cack in them), but today while getting breakfast in Dunnes, I decided to pick up the Sunday Independent for the story on Irish Nationwide, not the heading “One cigarette is the price of oral sex in UCD”. Anyway besides the main heading for a broadsheet being about students and sex, there were some interesting articles.

Well anyway, to my point. The Sunday Independent costs €2.50, however if you’re buying in the North, it’s £1.40. Using XE.com €2.50 is £2.02, so why is there a difference of 62 cent? We’re constantly hearing of things being cheaper in the North, even our own papers “Irish” papers, are being sold cheaper in a foreign currency. This is nothing new, although we’ve mainly being hearing about it the other way round, the clothes and goods both tagged in sterling and euro having massive differences.

So on that note, it’ll be the last time I buy the Sunday Independent in the South, feck ‘em anyways.

Also I’m off to buy a pack of fags, to UCD!