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Fri 07 Jul 2008An Irishman's Diary
The old nautical/drinking term "three sheets to the wind"* may get a new lease of life this morning when a ship called the Kathleen May docks at Dublin's Custom House Quay, after a six-day journey from Brest, writes Frank McNally
The three-masted wooden schooner will be carrying 23 tonnes - about 30,000 bottles - of French wine, destined for the Irish market, in what the haulage company involved claims is the first instance of such a cargo being imported under sail since the 1800s.
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