Note to parents: Children must bring own toilet roll to school


	Note to parents: Children must bring own toilet roll to school

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10-8-2009 12:36 PM

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10-8-2009 12:48 PM

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well ya know if women didn't use a wad of T.P. the size of a hornet hive to just do a little dab down there, we would all be better off. Both economically and ecologically. Plumbers wouldn't be stinking rich either. HA! "plumbers - stinking rich" that was pretty funny!

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Pupils at St John's Girls National School in Carrigaline in the southern county of Cork are being asked to bring their own toilet paper to school to help save money, perhaps one of the starkest examples yet of the death of Ireland's 'Celtic Tiger' economy.
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'The letter was sent out just as a way of balancing books here in the school and not intended as a demand,' said Catherine O'Neill, principal at the school.
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O'Neill said the request was made because of cuts to government grants for books and computers. She added that parents were responding well.
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'I've done a quick tour of the classrooms this morning and I'd say at least half the pupils have brought them (toilet rolls) in,' she told national broadcaster RTE.
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