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June 4th, 2019

9:30pm, just after dinner in the Dingle Pub, Dingle, Ireland 2019 

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The Dingle Pub, 

Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland, 2019

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The Dingle Pub,

Dingle, Ireland 2019

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Go where the Dingle Peninsula Ireland takes you, especially if it’s to a pub

We were decades apart in age, but our elbows, both bent, were inches apart on the bar at the Dingle Pub across from Benner’s Hotel one afternoon more than ten years ago in the wilds of western County Kerry, Ireland.

Mighty John O’Brien, himself a pub owner from Tramore — another seaside town but over in County Waterford — was on holiday with his wife Anne in the picturesque fishing village of Dingle.

John was in the pub lifting glasses of Guinness to calm his nerves — his adult son Andre was in need of a kidney transplant. I was nursing a broken heart ... pint by pint.

Commiseration is a word the Irish understand and embrace through hospitality. Conversation is another. O’Brien and I engaged in the Irish art of both that afternoon while swilling “the black stuff” or, as he referred to Guinness: “mother’s milk.”

Before the end of our session we’d agreed to meet the next day, but not too early, to walk 18 holes at Ceann Sibeal – Dingle’s golf links in nearby Ballyferriter, which we did.

Since then our transatlantic friendship has been cemented over various Emerald Isle visits as O’Brien and I have reconnected to play Tralee, Doonbeg, Lahinch, and stay at Dromoland Castle – each epic Irish golf and lodging experiences.

My advice? When visiting Eire, go where Ireland takes you, especially to the village pub — any village, any pub — where the soothing smell of a peat fire and the din of conversation can lead to lifelong friendship. Happy St. Patrick’s Day and … Slainte!

Michael Patrick Shiels may be contacted at [email protected] or via TravelTattler.com His talk show can be heard weekday mornings in Lansing on 92.1 FM and Fox 47 TV.

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Dingle hits the jackpot in Las Vegas

WARM WELCOME: The Dingle Pub

A RECENT visit to Dingle in Co. Kerry - where we reviewed a number of pubs, including the late Páidí Ó Sé's - brought this response from Michael Lampel by email from Las Vegas in the USA. Michael says he came to the Dingle Pub through their website www.thedinglepub.com, which offers an Irish song database.

He writes: "Dingle is located in the southwest of Ireland, described as one of the most beautiful places in the world and that is the truth.

"The Dingle Pub is one of the landmarks in Dingle and is highly frequented by tourists and lots of locals. It offers a wide range of meals and bar food, a large selection of drinks, accommodation (more than 10 B&B rooms above the pub) and daily live music during the season and on the weekends during the winter months.

"The pub is clean, the owner Tom a handsome man, but his 'slave' Paul, the waiter (they call him 'Octopaul' because he is able to carry eight full pints of Guinness), is my favourite. Meeting the locals is one of the experiences you should not miss!

"Toilets are clean, pub can be accessed with a wheelchair. B&B is €25 to €45 depending on season, average is €35pp/night including breakfast. The pub is located in the town centre and walking distance to the harbour is five minutes!

"If in Ireland 'Do Kerry'. If in Kerry 'Do Dingle'.

"Now that's the kind of publicity we need to make The Gathering a roaring success and put the naysayers like Gabriel Byrne in their place.

"I hope this helps, we had a great time there! All the best!