| 7. Club Rock Shandy | | | | you! (I am not kidding!) Pour a tad into a saucer |
| An even mixture of Club Orange and Club Lemon | | | | and light it, if the flame turns blue you’ll most |
| in a pint glass with chunks of ice. Club Rock | | | | likely be grand if it turns any other colour, |
| Shandy has quietened many the young fella in the | | | | decline….Probably the best bet is to only use it |
| pub, it’s pure exoticism swotting out any | | | | for it’s more medicinal purpose of rubbing into |
| thoughts of wanting to go home and leaving | | | | joints to help with rheumatism. |
| many the auld fella thanking God for Club! | | | | 3. Lucozade |
| 6. Linden Village Cider | | | | But not your everyday Lucozade, rather the one |
| The ubiquitous complement to any rebellious Irish | | | | in the glass bottle, covered by the oddly coloured |
| youth, Linden Village. There is a lot of mischievous | | | | cellophane wrap, brought To you by hordes of |
| contained in the hefty two litre flagons. | | | | well-wishers whilst in hospital getting the appendix |
| 5. Lilt | | | | or tonsils ripped out of ya! |
| Lilt is amazing - containing Irish summer in a can! | | | | 2. Guinness |
| And it must be drank out of a can! Nothing else | | | | ‘A pint of plain is your only man,’ said |
| will do! To be drank with a Blue Bounty Bar! Not | | | | Flann O’Brien and how right he was. Guinness |
| red! Blue! Result? Swinging in a hammock in the | | | | is meat and drink and as common as air, stout |
| Caribbean! | | | | is a national obsession. |
| 4. Poitin | | | | 1. Tea |
| BEWARE! Poitin is not to be gulped! If you are to | | | | Pipping them all to the top spot is tea, pure and |
| drink it at all, you must sip! Poitin, illegal for | | | | simple, nothing compares to a ‘sup of |
| centuries is the strongest alcoholic drink known to | | | | tay’. Every occasion calls for it and whether |
| man, it would strip paint from walls as the saying | | | | you are a Lyons man or a Barry’s man is a |
| goes. Ensure that it is safe, a bead batch will kill | | | | ferocious debate that rages eternal. |