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Sunday
Independent, 1988
Shell Guide to Ireland: How to summon treasures from the vasty deep -
have the best of fish and trips
Tales of the Unexpected: London restauranteur Harvey Sambooker tasted Ireland, marine county by county. He found our reputation for dreary drabs undeserved. Here he outlines just some of the hostelries whose mouthwatering menus tantalised his taste buds.
CO.
GALWAY Morans-on-the-Weir
The Moran Family, Kilcolgan.
Not really a restaurant as such, but apart from the best oysters I have
ever tasted, this idyllically situated cottage serves good soup and sandwiches
and is very cheap.....
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Sunday Independent, 19 August, 1990
Summer's
pints
It is a unique phenomenon of Irish life that the year's cycle is still divided not into seasons but into pub summertime and pub wintertime. The emigrant worker, according to popular legend, wipes his brow in the desert heat and dreams...not of home, but of the local pub and Sally and the way she might look at you. Sally will be wearing her summer dress. Noel Pearson in Hollywood, replete with Oscars, found himself looking forward to summer in Dublin and a pint in the local. Who can doubt that while pints of plain and balls of malt ran like a summer brook in Myles na gCopaleen's favourite snug, a sun was blazing. "The Brother's" pub was not a refuge from winter gales, but a summer holiday in itself long before less exotic "packages" became the norm....With public houses in mind, TOM O'DEA questioned a number of public figures about the joys of summer quaffing.
....Henry Mountcharles favours Moran's of the Weir in Kilcolgan. "I have been going there for years and years," he says. He is particularly fond of the West, especially Mayo, where his grandfather had a cottage in Crossmolina, and where he spent "many a happy time as a kid." Moran's is a lovely place, he says. He likes the food and the drink and the oysters. He especially likes the crab dishes. "And the staff is nice in Moran's," he adds. The place is therapeutic, he finds; the last time he was there someone was thatching the roof. He would not drive to Moran's simply for a drink, but he goes down there regularly for lunch and he welcomes an excuse to go there.....
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Sunday Independent
A
Taste of Galway
What's On compiled by
Ciara Ferguson
'Arriving in Galway last Saturday on a fleeting visit at the tail end of the Arts Festival and having visited local exhibitions ...The next day we decided to forego breakfast and instead drive to Killorglin to the famous Moran's on the Weir (a few miles outside Galway town and signposted from N17 Limerick Rd). This pub specialises in oysters from its own oyster farm served with Guinness or Murphys as recommended. I'm more of a chablis with smoked salmon person but I do love to watch those oysters going down. This is a lovely put to sit inside or out on a sunny day and taste fresh crab and mussels as we did before tearing back to Dublin.'
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