The Margin notes with some interest that despite their zealous support for the euro, the mandarins in the Department of Finance will, according to the latest changeover plan, still be paid in old-fashioned pounds from January 1st, 1999. However, you will all be relieved to hear that the Revenue Commissioners will accept tax payments in pounds or euros. Or sterling, dollars, gold bars, trinkets, beads, drachmas. . .