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# effin - Saturday 2 June, 2012
Bastardstown, Muff, Crazy Corner… welcome to Ireland
Explore seven of Ireland’s most amusing place names. (Warning! May contain juvenile tendencies!)
# effin - Saturday 18 February, 2012
The 9 at 9: Saturday
Nine things you need to know by 9am.
Now you can buy a t-shirt to confirm your Effin heritage
The Limerick parish which hit the headlines when it wasn’t acknowledged by Facebook is trying to cash in on its fame.
# effin - Friday 6 January, 2012
The Daily Fix: Friday
In tonight’s fix: Some parents to lose child benefit; continued rows over pensions debacle; Ray Grehan bankrupt – in England – and all the other bits you may have missed.
Facebook allows Effin locals to declare hometown – but no expats
The social network silently allowed people to use ‘Effin’ as their hometown over Christmas – but people living away from Ireland can’t do so.
# effin - Friday 16 December, 2011
It’s not Effin fair: Facebook ‘allows other rude names in Limerick area’
Local points out that villages near banned Effin are called Nicker and Meanus and are allowed on the site (although nearby Bottomstown is blocked).
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