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July 16, 2017Bill Linnane

Cork Laya City Spectacular 2017

One of the best free events in Cork every year. Terrible photos though.

October 7, 2016October 17, 2016Bill Linnane

Seasonal affective disorder

As part of the Midleton food festival each September, there is a tasting in the Jameson Heritage Centre in the town. It’s usually a ridiculously cheap five or ten euro for four premium whiskeys – but the event used to be completely free. However, one year at the end of the tasting, a little old […]

September 23, 2016September 23, 2016Bill Linnane

Holy waters

As monks go, St Columba was pretty rock ‘n’ roll. A great-great-grandson of High King Niall of the Nine Hostages, he once started a war over a copyright issue and ended up narrowly avoiding excommunication by exiling himself to Scotland. He sailed past Islay, where Irish monks introduced distilling to the Scots, and set up […]