Banned Books and why they were banned

I came across this and thought it was interesting -

http://www.borders.co.uk/why_were_they_banned?Init=668e7502-96da-2504-b97a-db6eb9bc34fe

Interesting Article in Todays Irish Times

Men want to play bigger role in their children's lives
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0919/1221690003468.html

It brings back the whole paternity leave argument and the fact that although Ireland has pretty good maternity leave it has no statutory paternity leave.

Vat difference

Currently I am slightly bitter about the difference between Irish and UK prices for baby stuff.
The UK is a lot cheaper but what I didn't know is that we both have Vat rates applying to some nursery items then the standard 21% here and 17.5% in the UK(I think it is 17.5% there)


http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2008/07/13/story34411.asp

So it sort of explains some of the price discrepancies.