Madam, – So we’re to celebrate Arthur’s day today (Weekend Review, September 19th). Celebrate, is it, the dozens and dozens of breweries that were taken over and closed down by Guinness over a couple of hundred years, destroying Dublin’s great brewing heritage and creating the farcical situation where virtually every pub in Ireland has the same half-dozen bland, mass-marketed beers?
I prefer to celebrate with a real drink – and there are several brewpubs in Dublin which have just that. That’s what we should be celebrating – a far superior alternative to a monopoly that has been forcing its over-rated product down our throats for far too long. – Yours, etc,