If I want to drink in an Irish bar, I’ll get on a plane and fly back to where I came from. The Scottish bar in St Petersburg – which was actually an Irish bar – was run, bewilderingly, by a Frenchman. The only place worse than an Irish bar, is an English bar on the Costa del Sol. I don’t give a flying Finnegan's Wake if hating Irish bars and English bars makes me a snob or killjoy. Just as there’s nothing better than a Scottish bar in Scotland, and an English bar in England.

Source: The Herald February 17, 2026 15:36 UTC