Occasionally, coins jingle in the hat on the cold asphalt, some passers-by pay a few euros by cell phone or card. When "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues or "Falling Down" by Glen Hansard can be heard tirelessly in the pedestrian zone on Grafton Street in Ireland’s capital Dublin, it’s not very romantic for the musicians.
Painters and sculptors also work frustrating jobs on the side, and writers earn extra money by teaching them, because otherwise they don’t have enough to live on. But now a pilot project is starting in Ireland, where freelancers regularly receive money to be […]
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