Monday, February 01, 2010

Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose

As fitting an epilogue to the Celtic Tiger as any, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, who ran the economy and the Northern Ireland peace process into the ground and collected all the plaudits in the world while doing it, being a good Irishman at his local Fagan's, one of just 9 pubs in Britain and Ireland to get the exclusive Sky 3D view of Arsenal vs Man Utd. Maybe Bertie could use the cool specs as a disguise when he moves out of the safe company of his Murdoch Inc. friends.

UPDATE: Nice choice of words from the Indo story --

The Drumcondra pub, along with eight other British bars

Indeed.

Photograph: Cyril Byrne, Irish Times.

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