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Article: Number of Guinness faithful slips in home of the pint.(Food)
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- The Boston Herald
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- September 23, 2001
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Cab driver Kevin Ross speeds down Wellington Quay along the south bank of Dublin's River Liffey, past U2's Clarence Hotel in the trendy Temple Bar neighborhood, and on to one of Ireland's most famous tourist attractions, the Guinness brewery at St. James's Gate.
Ross has ferried hundreds of guests to Guinness over the years, but fears he'll soon make his last trip this way.
"I reckon this brewery will be gone in five years," says Ross as he guides his cab westward through Dublin's tangled web of streets and past the ubiquitous construction cranes that symbolize the city's unprecedented prosperity. "The real estate is worth too much."
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