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33 degrees in Dublin, highest recorded since weather station opened in 1887. Ireland not suffering from fires as we are lightly forested and fires tend to be bracken, shrubs and heathery things; note I'm not a great gardener.
The Insurance Corporation of Ireland using a risk analysis from the great fire of London decided to re-insure assets of Australian Telecom in the London market. Well bugger me if there was not terrible bush fires in 1985 which burnt down all the telegraph poles and the Irish Government had to bail the ICI out to the tune of a lot.
We all now pay an annual Insurance Levy to try to balance the books. So the poor old koala was not the only looser.
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