Nenagh. One night a taxi brought me home and when I asked the driver for his most famous passenger he came up with this story. He had picked up Shane McGowan from the airport late in the evening and was asked to bring him to his local pub "Phil Ryans" in Nenagh which is around 170km away from the fair city.
Obviously Shane had his usual drink in the car which had been a bottle of vodka at that time. During the journey he phoned his local to confirm that he was on his way and that they should leave the back door open and prepare sandwiches for him. Once they had reached their destination around midnight, the pub staff took care of Shane. The driver turned around to head back to Dublin. On his way he stopped at a filling station to get some coffee and "to clean up the mess" in the car when he realised that Shane had left a bag behind on the back seat with 250.000€ in it.
With no other option than to turn around again, he drove back to the pub, delivered the money and received a nice reward of 500€, in Shane's words: "Treat yourself and your family to a nice dinner". Slainte!
© 2011 Micki Marbh
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