“Tinkering around the edges won’t work, as proved by the Local Link pilot scheme. We need...
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Floating distillery
Closing Time has heard of gin distilleries in unusual places but perhaps the most unusual...
Upbeat music tips
A recent report in The Telegraph in the UK stated that the Innsbruck team had found that dining to...
Licensed wisdom XXXI
“I think it should be re-named Aras An ‘Scooperon’.” – Comedian Barry Murphy describing the...
Horse walks into a bar…
It happened at the Pari Mutuel Urbain bar in Chantilly, France, when an unnamed racehorse from the...
Sitting tall
The vineyard, in Tibet’s Cai Na Xiang in Lhasa, rests 3,563 metres above sea-level and grows Vidal...
Head for a ‘Stoutie selfie’
Launched as part of the recent four-day International Stout Festival the Guinness Storehouse now...
Licensed wisdom XXX
“It is as if Dublin wants the lucrative tax revenue that the industry generates, the promise of...
Hidden Gilroy at Merrion Inn
For alongside the well-loved ‘steel girder’ and ‘whale’ posters sit some of the preparatory work...
St Austell discovers the Perfect Pint
St Austell Brewery in Kent recently commissioned a study into the key components of the ‘Perfect...