Wither the blarney boozer?

Begorrah boozers opened up everywhere in the 80s and early 90s, with the big pub companies spending millions on making bars look authentically tatty.
But, as with all fads, the magic wore off. There’s only so many times a Polish barmaid can ask you about “the craic” before you lose the will to live.
The only Irish [...]

Harvey’s Irish cream

The long-empty former Harvey’s restaurant, next to the Southport Casino, is rumoured to be up for conversion into an Irish theme pub.
Blarney boozers are not as popular as they used to be, indeed there’s only one (O’Leary’s) in Southport at the moment.
You rarely get good beer at an Irish pub, the motherland doesn’t do cask ale except in [...]