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Another light bulb moment

‘You’d need a degree in bulbs nowadays’

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Wed May 20 2026 - 06:00 • 1 MIN READ

Sir,- I’m in sympathy with Mary O’Dwyer and the perplexing choice of light bulbs available (Letters, May 18th).

However, a little humour helps as when I asked the assistant in my local hardware store recently about the difference between one or the other bulbs, she replied she hadn’t a clue “because you’d need a degree in bulbs nowadays”. A B. Lit perhaps? – Yours etc,

JOHN GAFFNEY,

Carrick-on-Shannon,

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