I wasn't sure of the plural for 'business' and so looked up http://www.focloir.ie. Under the heading 'business' was the subheading 'to do the business' with the following entry. (absolutely no pun intended)

have sex: 'we did the business last night' - 'rinneamar an gníomh aréir'

Immediately under that was the following: to get down to business: 'we have to get down to business right away' - 'caithfimid tabhairt faoin obair láithreach, caithfimid dul ina bhun láithreach, caithfimid bualadh faoi láithreach'

and straight after that was this: 'they went about their business quietly' - 'chuaigh siad i mbun oibre go ciúin, rinne siad a ngnó go socair'

I am not sure that they are all related, but they could be!! You can never be quite sure what you find when you want to look up something perfectly harmless!

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Just to help you out in expressing some of the finer details that you might wish to describe in this kind of situation, I see that Coiscéim have published 'Cliúsaíocht as Gaeilge'
www.litriocht.com/shop/product_info.php ... xbz6T95NIE

Just to confirm, I simply wanted to verify the plural of business. Blame Franc for introducing the 'French' influence!

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oh heavens forbid anyone could think you might take an interest in that sort of thing

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