Billy Keane: He was hoping to be knocked down for the compo – it was easier money than spoon-feeding a cement mixer

Why break your back on a building site when you can claim compo for getting a belt off a car bumper? Stock photo There was a man from our town who always looked down. The story from the local assumers association was the searcher found money on the road years ago, and ever since had been on the lookout for lost riches. But he didn’t strike gold.

Gold struck him. I heard somewhere that he was knocked down by a gold-coloured Bentley in London. As Percy French wrote in Mountains of Mourne : “They don’t sow potatoes nor barley nor wheat, but there’s gangs of them diggin’ for gold in the street.



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