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Casting The Net

10,000 Birds

Thumbing through the cheap flight destinations from the local airport and trying to figure where might offer the chance of something different in early October without breaking the bank I was drawn to the short hop over to Ireland. Wrestling with my conscience I decided to stick to my plans to plough a lone furrow further north.

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Glendalough Distillery: Double Barrel Irish Whiskey

10,000 Birds

Tomorrow is Saint Patrick’s Day, a holiday that offers plenty of excuses for drinking, but few prospects for straying from the well-worn celebratory routines. For most, it’s a day for swilling cream-and-whisky liqueurs, Irish stouts, and – less credibly – emerald-tinted American macro-lagers. And while the brewery at St.