Glad i never drank a guinness in my life.

it really is a slow news day

Guinness is Pish. Nitrokeg pish.

The Brits are welcome to it. It is a British product anyway but they aren't stupid enough to claim it as theirs. The have real ales over there that leave Guinness in the dreggs.

We latch on to the muck because its such a huge worldwide brandname that originated here, and we don't have too many of those.

We like to think everyone else on the planet love Guinness in the same way we like to think everyone else on the planet loves wee likkle Oirland.

The truth is most people don't give a fúck.

And yet we drag foreign heads of state to pubs and brewerys to sample the pish because we want to show the rest of the world that we are famous for something. I'd prefer if we flew them in on Ryanair and fed them with some home grown spuds drowned in molten Kerrygold to name just a pair of true Irish brand names recognised globally.

And all the while the marketing execs at Diageo HQ (in London) are rubbing their hands together as they glance at the graph of sales figures rising higher thanks to the merry little leprachauns across the Irish Sea dancing obediantly to their tune.


Guinness is about as Irish as Korean Dog Chow Mein in soi sauce.

And its piss.