… it is equally obvious that if the present C.I.E. [Córas Iompair Éireann] system is to be kept - and even C.I.E. appear to favour its retention almost as it now stands - subsidisation in some form is inevitable.

You pluck a goose while it yet lives, then you butter and lard it well. A duck will do, but there's more meat on a goose. You set it within a ring of fires, supplied with a bowl of water with salt and spikenel in it.

...to the good seruice of the Quenes Maiestie and your contrey to all our benefites...

Places of perswasion and disswasion