Pat Nolan Blog

Say it with Guinness

October 31, 2014

It all happened in the Temple Bar pub in Dublin. For this is where Laurence decided to pop the...

October 24, 2014

He and his family had been renting the shop for some years, the only business in the community...

October 10, 2014

The Holycross, County Tipp native has served customers at The Cherrytree for the past three decades...

October 3, 2014

“We are now in the bizarre position that Ireland is one of the most expensive places in the word to...

September 12, 2014

It all began with the St George’s Distillery in Roundham, Norfolk, which released its first...

May 16, 2014

“Pubs which serve watery coffee and lukewarm, over-cooked carvery lunches will struggle to...

May 16, 2014

More than half of respondents (58%) think that chat-up lines work well in person and 65% agree that...

December 7, 2012

Chateau Bel Air, a wine from the Lynch Bages collection, has a fairly classical label heralding the...

September 28, 2012

Festive plans are already afoot to re-trasmit this piece of pure Christmas hokum which, as well as...

September 5, 2012

This nippy device could also solve every publican’s beer storage problem and allow them to turn the...