As a paid-up fan of the nanny state in most situations it’s not often I’m the first to shout ‘stop’ to public health measures, but they’ve finally hit me where it hurts. A proposal announced yesterday to stop hairdressers serving a glass of whatever takes your fancy stopped me in my tracks. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVmvTpXh7AE/?taken-by=deshocks Is there [...]
I had a chat with Matt Cooper on Today FM about the #12pubs piece I wrote for The Herald. You can listen to that here (from about 30 minutes). The poll is still open if you have a strong view, either way! [polldaddy poll=7650769]
Only in Ireland can things be allowed to go so far that the people who sell us drink are the ones who tell us when we’ve had enough. But that’s just what happened this week when one Dublin publican called a halt to the annual Christmas jumper and vomit fest that is the 12 pubs of [...]
If you're reading this and feeling that post-Bank Holiday weekend exhaustion that comes to those of us who are no longer young enough to go out two nights in a row, I salute you. You might be feeling normal again by Friday. It's a regrettable coincidence in the life cycle that our inability to go out [...]
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