April 22, 2008
At the interesting Celtic Whiskey shop tasting yesterday picked out some wines I liked very much and you might too. The La Multa Old Vine wines, particularly the Tempranillo, the Garnacha and the Syrah were fantastic value at around a tenner. Lovely easy drinking and a change from the usual suspects. I also liked the ...
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April 19, 2008
Are you as pissed off as I am with the posturings of celebrity chefs? RTE’s recent hype-up of the man from Mint was the final nail in the coffin containing my love affair with TV cookery programmes. Okay, so Zimmerman McRaw or whatever he’s called, is a righteous chef, Michelin star and all that but ...
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April 19, 2008
After a quick pint in The Palace Bar Lefty and I crossed the bridge and sauntered up O’Connell Street past ‘the spike’, surely one of the world’s most incongruous totems. Lefty has this idea, which I think is only brilliant, of getting it officially re-badged as ‘The Milligan Monument’ in time for the centenary of ...
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