Itās a getting to be a bit like when Oasis came out with this. You knew the well was beginning to run a bit dry. You hadnāt heard it before but in reality youād heard it a thousand times before.
We used live beside a cousin (heās dead a good 20/30 years at this stage) of the Aherne family. I didnāt realise until this week that Mrs Aherne going back a few generations is a cousin of the Flannerys pub dynasty in Limerick. So the Palace and Flannerys are connected. I presume itās common enough knowledge but was news to me!
He took a day off from the pints yesterday - on the 7th day, Roy rested - and you had his critics furiously refreshing his feed for his latest love letter to one of Dublinās wonderful cathedrals.
Royās love letters are a lovely little payback to those establishments who kept the draught porter flowing and good company with a knowing knock during the covid years.
Heāll do the same again next year too, perhaps changing two of the 12 pubs.
Evolve or die.
I had high hopes that Roy could have evolved into an Eamon MacThomĆ”is type character for the online proletariat. But heās become happy to serve up the same coddle every night. And that coddle eventually curdles into a cod.
Bringing 2 of my greatest loves in life together⦠i cant believe i didnāt think of it myself. Roy is just operating on a different level altogetherā¦