Kavanagh's pub is its better-known as Gravediggers, because the gravediggers working at the adjacent Glasnevin Cemetery used to order drinks on the job through a secret hatch.

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The layoff of five gravediggers at the Arsenal Island National Cemetery, near Rock Island, Illinois, has placed a bigger burden on the three diggers not furloughed.

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I've spent some time with some German gravediggers and there the limit is 30 years, but people aren't happy with that, they want it lowered to 20.

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At the top of a hill in the city, beyond the rows of graves covered in floral tributes, lies an area of wasteland that has to be disturbed regularly by gravediggers.

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Thatcher took power following Britain's "winter of discontent" of 1978-1979, in which nationwide strikes over pay by public-sector workers from gravediggers to garbage men brought an economy that had for years been growing at half the rate of its peers close to a standstill.

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