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A Nobel or a Sausage?

Mark Devenport | 14:13 UK time, Friday, 10 October 2008

Here's a question. What would you rather have? A Nobel Peace Prize or a sausage named in your honour?

Well if you are Martti Ahtisaari you can have both. Mary McAleese, Gerry Adams and Mark Durkan are amongst those to have congratulated the former Finnish President and Inspector of IRA weapons on his award, announced today.

I've been racking my brains as to why the international trouble shooter reminded me of a sausage. Finally I dug up a brief profile from the Guardian in May 2000 which included the information that he is "probably the only world leader to have a sausage named after him; after his election as president his supporters renamed a Finnish delicacy Mara, after his nickname."

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