Some of the Roses competing this yearI’ve been away a bit this summer to places like Portugal where the ‘Irish pub’ seems to be some kind of a tourist attractionFrom the outside you’d say this place looks Irish with a lot of green and tricolours flying high To be fair they would show all the GAA matches during the summer and have RTÉ television and radio playing in the background A good bit less Irish than the pub down the road, but still a lot more like the Irish pubs in other places I’ve been in Europe READ MORE