Leeds Irish Health and Homes is funded by the Irish Government with an explicit cultural as well as a social mission. The fabric of civic life here, threadbare after austerity, will be left in rags from such new cuts. Recently he’d been moved into a care home for the elderly from which he’d promptly been evicted for fighting. During what was then called Spanish Flu in Britain, Billy put a sign in his window that read SALE NOW ON! I found out after more investigation that the Chinese woman from the laundry in Fred’s joke eventually died by suicide.

Source: The Irish Times July 03, 2020 04:18 UTC