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Article: A cocktail of celebrities and rogues ...and the stench of new money; What the barman saw.(Features)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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Byline: Sean Boyd
One evening, an American arrived into the Horseshoe bar, looked around and said: 'What's so different about this place?' Oliver Caffrey, polo-playing socialite and long-time patron, looked around and replied: 'This bar is the soul of Ireland.' But the visitor still didn't get it.
So Oliver said: 'What other bar in the world has two people in it who could call the White House and have the president accept their call?' Protesting that this was impossible as there was protocol to follow, the Yank asked whom Oliver was talking about. He replied: 'Besides myself, there is also John Hume and in the corner over there sits Bono.' Since it ...
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