Robert Going--I am interested in your surname. It is the name of a long-time agent collecting rents on the properties around Templemore in the mid-19th century. Ring a bell? I do believe it to be disgrace that Budweiser is sold and asked for throughout Ireland. Of course, I believe that Anhauser-Busch now owns Guinness or is in the same corporate family. Do you know the joke about Budweiser being like making love in a canoe?--Tom At 03:00 PM 12/5/2007, you wrote: >Message: 1 >Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:24:58 -0500 >From: "Robert N. Going" <rgoing@nycap.rr.com> >Subject: [COTIPPERARY] C&E records and pints in Ballina >To: CoTipperary-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <4756605A.8080208@nycap.rr.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >It was indeed Goosers where I tipped the pint in Ballina and I am quite >shocked to find that a parish within sight of the cathedral in Killaloe >would be in the C&E Diocese. > >BTW, my wife asked for a Harp and was told none was available. When I >asked what they DID have on tap they told me "Carling Black Lable and >Budweiser." Well, we didn't fly all the way from upstate New York just >to have an expensive import brew from the USA. Especially not a hoi >polloi brewski. > >After the Guinness I drove across the rickety narrow bridge across the >Shannon to Killaloe, with truck traffic headed the other way. THERE is >a driving experience somewhat akin to the Connor Pass. Is that bridge a >thousand years old? Sure looked it.