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THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK has unveiled images of a new €5 note is to be introduced into circulation from May 2 of this year.
The new note is the first in a series of an initiative to replace all seven denominations of euro notes, introducing new security features.
The new notes will feature the likeness of the Greek mythological figure of Europa, whose face will appear on one of the note’s new holograms.
The image of Europa – who was seduced and abducted by Zeus in the guise of a bull – is derived from a vase housed in the Musée du Louvre in Paris which was present at today’s launch in Frankfurt.
The new notes includes Europa’s image in their watermark and on its hologramic strip, and will also feature an emerald-coloured ’5′ in its corner which changes colour from green to blue when tilted under light.
The notes also feature a wider map of Europe – to reflect the wider geographical spread of the EU since the first banknotes were released at the Euro’s launch in 2002 – and features the word ‘Euro’ in the Cyrillic script as well as the Latin and Greek alphabets.
Almost €913 billion in euro banknotes were in circulation at the end of 2012, a quarter of which was in circulation outside the 17 eurozone nations.
Further notes in the ‘Europa series’ – which Mario Draghi described as “smarter” than the current series of banknotes – will be rolled out in the coming years.
Existing €5 notes will retain their value indefinitely, with the ECB promising to announce in due course when they will stop being accepted as legal tender.
Once invalid, older notes will be available to exchange at any national Central Bank.
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Putting chocolate on the onions as we speak…….they look like chocolate apples but taste like chocolate onions….just kidding
Lmao!!!
Desmond aren’t u lucky so that kids don’t get guns :)
Must do the onions it would suit the cheeky teenagers lol lol lol lol
As my mother used to say, “you’ll take what your given”
and LIKE it!
Ah God help them, do they not get enough crap all year round! Wouldn’t do them any harm to get a satsuma and a few monkey nuts, sure that’s all we got years ago! LOL
allergies to nuts…. might kill the poor child
Better still, turn out all the lights and hide behind the couch till the rug rats and ankle biters have gone!
Back in my day we were lucky to get a slap and 3 grapes…
Luxury! We used t’dream of a slap and 3 grapes……
Surely the worst thing to give them is handguns.
Sweet joke man
Yes Domocles, we give trick or treaters handguns now, does your idiocy have no bounds?
I’m not sure Desmond but I think Damocles was joking…
Really? :D
GIn’s probably a bad idea too. In fact anything alcoholic. Small children don’t have the tolerance for it.
an old lady once gave me a starting to rot mandarin orange!
What did you do with it?!
fired it into the hedge once she was gone in!
Trick or treat? We used to say help the halloween party. Americanisation gone global.
T’Kids round my way shout trick AND treat ! Little #%*¥ers
Pookas, and we used to say ‘penny for the pooka’ and sing a song, or recite a poem.
I agree with you about these Americanisms though, it’s both a shame, and embarrassing, too see them transforming a very ancient Celtic/Irish tradition.
Dried fruit is going to be in my basket of treats this year. ;-)
Do that with the little terrorist in my area, have the fire brigade on speed dial.
Number 5……really?
I love Catherine wheels! I’d eat my own foot if it was covered in Liquorice :-)
Hate Halloween though!
I was wondering what the hell it was…thanks
Last year my kids were given stale digestive biscuits and a half eaten Mars bar!
We used to say ” any apples or nuts”. (Curious to know if we were alone in that )
And ya always had the oul one who made ya sing for two feckin monkey nuts.
when i were a lad it was monkey nuts, more monkey nuts some more monkey nuts and some monkey nuts. if we were lucky there was a satsuma if unlucky there were crab apples. once got a bar of soap, used.
Ah god nostalgia isn’t as good as it used to be at all at all…
One misanthrope used to throw loose, unbagged popcorn into the kids bags in my estate. Used to mix with coins and the small amound of liquid which was always there for some reason. Mmmm, delicious.
I like to hand out LSD to the kids, they love it! Makes Halloween REALLY scary!
How about snap-apple & barmbrack
with the ring, the rag, the stick, the bean and other, such fun days back then before it all became too Americanized.. Won’t see Halloweens like those again when we were grateful for small things and big laughs..
Just ask for a trick instead, hopefully the kids won’t get to hyper from all the sugar. The only thing to give them is some apples as Halloween is originally a harvest festival to celebrate the fruits of autumn and prepare for the coming winter by talking of the past and the dead, and celebrating this. How it became about dressing up and horrors is something that is been marketed to us. So don’t fall for the bs marketing of buying sweets bring back the traditions of celebrating the people who have left us and enjoy the last feast before winter.
The “bs marketing of buying sweets” ? have you seen the price of apple compared to the price of a few jellies ? we don’t all unfortunately have bumper crops of fruit to harvest this year. I’ll stick to the sugary shit thanks.
A voucher for a night with jimmy savile
Two words work for me always – fu** off
Little buggers should stay at home with their families!
Our kids get so much, that we raid their loot when they return to empty their bags. We then rob a lot of their stuff and put it out for the next callers.
That probably messes with some of the parents heads.
Best memories are coming home post trick or treat and sitting beside the fire, emptying out the big Dunnes stores plastic bags and sorting all stuff into ‘piles’. chocolate piles, jelly piles, crisp piles, monkey nut piles and firing the apples and satsumas into the fruit bowl….and watching 3,2,1 on ITV!
I got a potato once
So did I. :( it was an old one too so mam wouldn’t even cook it.
I wanted to give the kids with attitude (and there are plenty of them) skittles and red bull to teach their parents a lesson…… But my wife wouldn’t let me!
Bonios and oxo cubes.
I think it’s quite sad that children prefer a pile of crap over fruit…
Broken glass in pick’n mix sweets!
Razor blades or pills embedded in chocolate bars.
(Has happened in the US), some towns have X-ray stations set up where you can have your kid’s haul scanned before giving it to them.
I know a certain someone who has a separate bowl of doggy chocs and biscuits and dishes them out with the good stuff. No complaints yet.
from a health and safety point of view, going round collecting sweets should be abolished. it’s totally outdated in this day and age and you just don’t know who and how those sweets were kept and handled. however, keep going with dressing up parties and eat sweets there.
From a no fun point of view maybe
Oh for gods sake Eva.
Money.
I didn’t mind getting money (although I preferred sweets or crisps) – I used to use it to get penny sweets the next day :)
We live on a country road where there are no other houses so we travel for Halloween. Daughter went around a nice estate in Greystones last year with a friends son, stale liquers and mozart chocolates were the low note, total haul was 2 shopping bags full and heavy with chocolate and 2 apples. Another year went around a less salubrious estate. 3 bin bags full of crisps and jellies and odd chewy things.
Last year we had to throw out all the sweets my 9 year old had collected as nuts got mixed up amongst them and she is so allergic we could not run the risk of having to use the emergency stab pen containing adrenalin and then heading to casualty…. major disappointment for her…tho
secretly I was kinda pleased…probably also meant no unexpected trip to the dentist for a filling at the cost of 60 euro….
Ah leave it out will ya!! Der monkey nuts son!!!
Fair enough, I see there is not much agreement with my input. Well, maybe my excuse is that from where I come we do not celebrate Halloween the way you do. We only go to visit our ancestors in the graveyards and think about death and decay. Is that not much better than sweets?
Don’t forget grapes! i used to get them every year and of course they just got crushed by all the sweets!
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