Word: pubs
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...Ahern managed to combine his political smarts with the common touch of the retail politician, religiously canvassing his political base in Dublin's Northside, probably because he enjoyed drifting from pub to shop, chewing over the national budget or gassing about Manchester United, his favorite soccer team. He is known, everywhere, simply as Bertie, appearing to be on first-name terms with the entire Irish public...
...morning," he says. "I reminded them that they'd promised to go away for a couple of hours in the afternoon." What does he love about F1? Screaming engines are high on the list - and here he mimics one amid the Friday afternoon hubbub of an inner-city pub. His greatest fear, he says, is not to be watching when the luckless Australian driver for the Red Bull team, Mark Webber, finally wins a Grand Prix. That certainly didn't happen in Melbourne. In a pointer to the kind of chaotic racing that fans like Maccallum could...
...know we're best-dressed when we get into a taxi and the driver asks, "You going to a costume party?" and we say, "No, we're just going to the pub."' ?Model Agyness Deyn, on her eclectic personal style...
...Local residents say there was widespread approval for English Heritage's plan, except for a small but vocal group of residents who lived near the projected visitors center. "Most people supported it; something needs to be done," says Mark Griffen, who runs The Bell pub in Amesbury. English Heritage is still trying. The group expects to disclose four new possible options within a few weeks. How much, if any, future opposition it encounters will likely depend on where it next wants to locate the center. As for the roads, any new plan will probably include closing the A344. But little...
Harvard students celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with green beaded necklaces and an abundance of Guinness beer at the Queen’s Head Pub on Saturday—but their partying among shamrocks and leprechauns has come a long way from the original meaning of the holiday. The festivities featured a river dancer and an Irish band, as well as an abundance of Irish flags and green paper streamers. Several inflatable plastic leprechauns were nestled among the beer steins behind the bar. The event’s river dancer, Whitney L. Kress ’08, gestured...