If you can't get it on the black market !!

I often pass by the shut down hardware store run for generations by the Leonard family on the road  near Athboy Gate and adjacent to the Stone House  public house.I knew the last two generations well and indeed Charlie the institution who worked there,Decent people all.
It is sad to see it closed down and its closure is a very real testimony to the treatment of people by the political  Kapos and duine breaga who run  this country for the E.U bullies who sold us down the Swanee and lumbered us with the sort of debt that we have no chance of ever paying.
Bad cess to them all.
When the business was up and running years ago they were the best men in Ireland to source any item  needed no matter how rare ,
Even during the War years of 1939 to 1945,when everything was  rationed and there was a thriving and much used black market.
I often heard my grandfather and uncles humming to the tune of"Shine up your buttons with Brasso ,its only three happens a tin,and adding the word "and if you can't get it on the black market you'll get it in Leonards of Trim."
Some compliment to their resourcefulness.