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The Lennox Herald, January 17 1992
Travels in a small country by Bill Heaney
Just two hours from the coast of Ayrshire.
'The young barman placed a platter of plump Pacific oysters on the table along with mounds of crab's claws and mussels cooked in garlic. We were in Moran's by the Weir at Clarenbridge, outside Galway, and President Mary Robinson was lunching with friends in the snug next door.
The seafood at Moran's is delicious, and we washed it down with pints of creamy black Guinness and bottles of ice cold Muscadet. Smoked salmon and prawns, accompanied by fresh soda bread generously spread with yellow Irish butter were my choice for the main course, and it was superb. Good food is an essential ingredient of any holiday - far more important than the weather - and in Ireland, with its thriving fishing and farming industries, there is any God's amount of it.
We had travelled to Ireland via the Ayrshire coast and slipped over by P&O European Ferries from Cairnryan, past Paddy's Milestane, to Larne in County Antrim, a journey of just two and a quarter hours.
We were invited to Galway by new-found friend Tony Barrett whom we met the previous evening while enjoying a banquet of succulent lamb and fresh vegetables in the Kerryman's Inn at Lacken, Co. Mayo.
As the Jameson whiskey advertisement says, there are no strangers in Ireland, just friends you have yet to meet. He wanted to know what Scotland's new enterprise companies were doing in his field of interest, particularly on the tourism front.
And despite the fact that it was holiday time, the offer of a lunch at Moran's was irresistable, and if this was business, it was a very real pleasure.....'
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