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From Andalucia to Dubai, the ‘Irish pub’ abroad has become ubiquitous in recent years. But it looks now as if pints of the black stuff have had their day, reports FIONA McCANN
YOU’VE FORKED OUT oodles of euro for the ticket, packed your bags, removed your shoes in irritating airport queues and hopped on a plane for destinations new, only to touch down and find yourself confronted with the very thing you thought you’d left behind: an Irish pub. Because chances are that if you’ve been anywhere since the early 1990s, be it the 4,000ft-deep Colca Canyon in Peru, or at in the Himalayan foothills of Pokhara, Nepal, you’ve come across an “Irish pub”.
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