Poitín now legal to drink in Ireland as first license given [Poteen, moonshine]

Irish Central ^ | December 30, 2016 05:36 AM | IrishCentral Staff

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After generations of his family spent their lives as outlaws for making the infamous Irish poitín, Pádraic Ó Griallais has finally been able to carry out the family business in the open just under a decade after the spirit was outlawed.

Taking a career break from his job as a high school teacher to establish a new business based on his old family recipe, Ó Griallais is free to produce and sell the highly alcoholic spirit as he pleases without the interference of the Gardaí [Irish police], who hounded the previous poitín distillers in his family with raids to put a stop to the production of the beverage that was outlawed from 1661 to 1997 due to excise regulations.

The production of the spirit was regulated by the Irish Department of Agriculture in 1997 but only under their specific regulations. Luckily the regulations still allow Ó Griallais to use the botanical bogbean that grows around his family’s homeland around Indreabhán, County Galway, that makes their specific recipe so special. …

[NicknamedBob]

When Bobby Was Seven

When Bobby was seven,
He liked playing games,
Liked working out puzzles,
And had puzzled aims.

He mostly was smiling,
About average size,
And his exercise program,
Involved mainly his eyes.

He liked to hear music,
Couldn’t figure out dance,
His movements reflected,
All those ants in his pants.

As his friends fondly noted,
There was surely a way,
Having made it to seven,
He’d grow up one day.

NicknamedBob . . . 27 Feb, 2015

[NoCmpromiz]

Now that there is good...

[NicknamedBob]

I just don't specify seven what.

[NoCmpromiz]

In my case it’s decades. But not ‘til tomorrow. Officially at 1:55 AM.

[NoCmpromiz]

A thought..

[Darksheare]

I only made a credible dummy once.
Got me into trouble.
Ask others about “cousin Gomer”.

[NicknamedBob]

"In my case it’s decades. But not ‘til tomorrow."

Mine too. On the date I wrote the poem.

[Tax-chick]

Frank is 7. He’ll be 8 in May.

[Tax-chick]

You don’t look a day older than 37.

[Tax-chick]

[Tax-chick]

[Monkey Face]

Yes, well, I have a reunion coming up Labor Day weekend, but I don’t remember which one it was. The last one, ten years ago (or eleven, I think) was a shock because had it not been for name tags, I would not have known who all those old people were!

My sister looks remarkably older than I, poor baby.

[Monkey Face]

My brothers made a dummy once on Hallowe’en. They put it in the road on a blind curve on Main Street, a block from out home.

I was too young to answer any questions.

[Monkey Face]

Wow. Two squees for the price of one! I’m very cold, and I’m waiting for the bathroom to warm up.

After I open the clubhouse, I’ll go to Walgreen’s and get my prescription. I don’t think I’ll have enough left over to go to Walmart.

All of a sudden I seem to be out of almost everything. How’d that happen? *sheesh*

(I checked to tagline quote and corrected it.)

[Monkey Face]

...block from out OUR home.

Sorry folks. I must be still asleep.

[Tax-chick]

Good morning. I’m cold, too. I will have a shower once I’ve marshalled some young persons into productive activity.

[Monkey Face]

I’ve opened the clubhouse and I’m headed for Walgreen’s, now. Then home for a breathing treatment.

Thanks!

[Tax-chick]

You’re welcome.

I hassled Tom, Elen, and Sally off to Mass. The girls are going on a camping trip with a friend later.

[Monkey Face]

It must be January. The co-pay on my prescriptions went up. *sigh* I’m so far in the hole when the month starts, I don’t know if I will ever be able to catch up.

Looking on the bright side, maybe I’ll be able to lose that clingy 15 pounds that doesn’t want to leave me.

:o|

[Tax-chick]

maybe I’ll be able to lose that clingy 15 pounds that doesn’t want to leave me

Yeah, me too.

The right side of my head is all blocked up. I feel sideways.