Articles tagged ‘Drinking’

Red Guinness

By Seán | October 26th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Okay, this is really absurd.
My preference for microbrew and unusual beer notwithstanding, red-coloured Guinness?
I saw this article in the paper today. Guinness has been running their “brewers” series of different Guinness beers all this year, a move I feel reflects the more cosmopolitan leanings of the modern Irish drinker, but this beer isn’t even [...]

 

Irish minister warns students not to drink too much

By Seán | September 14th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Today the results for the Junior certs were released. The Minister for Education, Mary Hanafin, issued a warning hand-in-hand with her congratulations, stating that students, “must avoid the ‘disgraceful’ behaviour of previous years”. Not only does she go on to mention alchohol consumption, but the press has twinned her comments with warnings from Alchohol Action [...]