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Public servants took more than 2 million sick days last year
10 reasons sick days are utterly torturous
10 things Ferris Bueller taught us about pulling sickies
77 per cent of Irish bosses are expecting Olympics ‘sickies’
Annual sick leave in public sector costs State over €551 million
More than 100 HSE staff off sick every day - at just one hospital