British politicians and their fellow travellers have over the decades had some difficulty with the Irish names for that country’s political offices. Many years ago, Hansard, the official record of transcript of Parliamentary debates in Britain, once famously mis-recorded the office of Taoiseach or prime minister as the ‘tea shop‘. However, the Irish prime minister’s … Continue reading The tea sock
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The tea sock
British politicians and their fellow travellers have over the decades had some difficulty with the Irish names for that country’s political offices. Many years ago, Hansard, the official record of transcript of Parliamentary debates in Britain, once famously mis-recorded the office of Taoiseach or prime minister as the ‘tea shop‘. However, the Irish prime minister’s … Continue reading The tea sock