Tea with the Taoiseach
NOW that the owners of the Co. Clare house featured in Father Ted have given in to the inevitable and started offering tea and scones to fans of the television show, isn’t it high time that other Irish buildings with comedic connections identified their commercial potential? I’m sure there must be hundreds of people who’d be happy to pay €3 to enjoy a cup of tea at the original location of the greatest Irish farce in history. Though whether Enda Kenny will have time to serve it himself is unclear. PIERS Morgan reports how he witnessed his good friend Gary Lineker almost choke to death on a peanut when the pair were out for a social drink. I’d imagine SCIENTISTS claim that drinking two cups of tea a day boosts a woman’s fertility. Walkers — who pay the former England captain a handsome sum to promote their crisps — were similarly apoplectic when they learned of their spokesman’s real pub snack of choice. AS a member of a family that is coming down with redheads, I was a little dismayed to learn that not only are gingers more sensitive to pain than the rest of the population, but they are also more liable to be attacked by bees. It seems an unfortunate burden to bear — but at least it does explain why Hector Ó heochagáin spends so much time leaping around. Funnily enough, I think they’ll find that wine has much the same effect. I WONDER what Woody Allen might make of a study, published this week, which claims money may not buy you happiness, but being happy can make you money. Allen once claimed that his own wealth couldn’t buy him happiness — but it did afford him ‘a better class of misery’.