Sir, – Kevin Crotty bemoans the fact that, due to the lockdown, he is unable to visit his local in Portlaw, Co Waterford, "for the simple pleasure of a bottle of stout" (Letters, August 8th).
Although I can sympathise with your reader’s predicament as he endures involuntary temperance, I would point out that the particular libation mentioned, while once ubiquitous, is now available almost exclusively in supermarkets and off-licences.
For reasons beyond my ken, and much to my regret, ordinary public houses, including, I suspect, those in Co Waterford, years ago stopped selling the black brew in its bottled form. – Yours, etc,
KIERAN
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FLYNN,
Derrymullen,
Ballinasloe,
Co Galway.