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A pint on the train

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    #32
    gobnaitolunacy
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    corktina wrote: »
    it's just the same as the Wine situation...you can have fine French wines that you savour or a Lidl 3 litre wine box. As with beer, the Irish go for quantity over quality.

    Aint necessarily so.
    Tar + Brush much?


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    #33
    CaptainFreedom
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    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    I'd give anything a fair go, but the RPSI ale, yuck.

    Still sells well, although Im told it only really makes an appearance when there are plenty of Brits onboard


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    #34
    The Stroller
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    I remember Network Catering sold Murphy's on draught for a short time during the mid 90's.

    The MK 2 buffet cars on the Sligo and Rosslare had taps fitted in the bar area in place of some shelves. The kegs were also smaller than the standard pub keg.

    From what I recall it wasn't very popular and only lasted about six months.


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    #35
    flyingsnail
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    CaptainFreedom wrote: »
    Still sells well, although Im told it only really makes an appearance when there are plenty of Brits onboard

    Indeed it is usually available on the 3 day tour, they go through about 4 or 5 kegs of the stuff over the weekend.


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    #36
    gobnaitolunacy
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    flyingsnail wrote: »
    Indeed it is usually available on the 3 day tour, they go through about 4 or 5 kegs of the stuff over the weekend.

    vs how many kegs of Guinness/Heineken?


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    #37
    The Idyll Race
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    The Stroller wrote: »
    I remember Network Catering sold Murphy's on draught for a short time during the mid 90's.

    The MK 2 buffet cars on the Sligo and Rosslare had taps fitted in the bar area in place of some shelves. The kegs were also smaller than the standard pub keg.

    From what I recall it wasn't very popular and only lasted about six months.


    Think I can trace the source of the problem there..
    Murphy's


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    #38
    The Idyll Race
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    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    vs how many kegs of Guinness/Heineken?

    Jesus, not the feckin' Heino.. :rolleyes:


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    #39
    gobnaitolunacy
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    The Idyll Race wrote: »
    Jesus, not the feckin' Heino.. :rolleyes:

    I'd rather drink toilet water, but would be interested in the ratio.


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    #40
    flyingsnail
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    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    vs how many kegs of Guinness/Heineken?

    Maybe 3 or 4 but the real ale kegs are much smaller than the Guinness kegs.


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    #41
    The Idyll Race
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    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    I'd rather drink toilet water, but would be interested in the ratio.

    Never trust a beer that is the same colour going out as going in! :D


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    #42
    corktina
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    The Idyll Race wrote: »
    Never trust a beer that is the same colour going out as going in! :D

    that would be Guinness then or did you never have the black "solid waste matter" from that stuff?


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    #43
    gobnaitolunacy
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    Too much detail.


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    #44
    corktina
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    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Too much detail.

    Not as much as I could have given! You want a Video maybe?:D


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    #45
    gobnaitolunacy
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    No, you're alright.


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    #46
    end of the road
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    The Stroller wrote: »
    The MK 2 buffet cars on the Sligo and Rosslare
    ah yes, the good old days of a dining car and a bar, we've taken a huge step backwards with the new trains. no wonder people are happy with (a bus with a jacks) they have no standards at all.

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #47
    Losty Dublin
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    CaptainFreedom wrote: »
    Still sells well, although Im told it only really makes an appearance when there are plenty of Brits onboard

    All Dublin trains serve bottled ales from Fullers, Shepherd's Neame and Harviston's to name a few. The beer range expands for the tours and on a few occasions both Porterhouse and Maguire's have supplied cask beers as well.


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    #48
    corktina
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    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    All Dublin trains serve bottled ales from Fullers, Shepherd's Neame and Harviston's to name a few. The beer range expands for the tours and on a few occasions both Porterhouse and Maguire's have supplied cask beers as well.

    Really, then I'm now staunchly anti Coach and Pro-rail.... see you on board (tell me it's London Pride...please....)


    damn you mean RPSI traions don't you.....damn damn damn


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    #49
    Losty Dublin
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    corktina wrote: »
    Really, then I'm now staunchly anti Coach and Pro-rail.... see you on board (tell me it's London Pride...please....)

    Yep, in big shiny brown bottles with noble red labling :)

    corktina wrote: »
    damn you mean RPSI traions don't you.....damn damn damn

    :p


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    #50
    Sligo Quay
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    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

    We have a minority of idiots who don't stop at 1 pint and make life insufferable for fellow passengers..
    I used to be 1 of them suffering passengers when I used to travel on the Waterford train with drunken idiots boarding at Kilkenny, never mind the stags with too many pints, the women where the worse, screaming women with too much vodka.


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    #51
    CaptainSkidmark
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    i have no problem with the service irish rail provide except the catering, and its always been the same, over priced and borderline extortion


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    #52
    gobnaitolunacy
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    CaptainSkidmark wrote: »
    i have no problem with the service irish rail provide except the catering, and its always been the same, over priced and borderline extortion

    Irish Rail no longer do the catering, it's Rail Gourmet. Not that they're any better.

    Plus, it's a captive audience a la a short hop airline, what do you expect?


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