{A Northern Irish Joke}[27th March 1991]

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This has a distinctly Northern Irish (and perhaps N[orthern] I[rish] Protestant) humour to it: ‘What do you get when you cross Peter Brooke [the Northern Irish Secretary]* with the mafia?’ ‘An offer you can’t understand.’

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