Louise McSharry

So clearly making it a visual spectacle is kind of part of their marketing.

You know, surely at the center of a roundabout.

Yeah, I was going to say, because we still are in the situation where, you know, the pint makes it, to quote The Simpsons, sacrilegious.

because you do see billboards for alcohol around I'm never clear on the old alcohol advertising well I think that yeah I think there's a lot of kind of getting around the advertising rules as well with like non-alcoholic versions of yeah there's it's said there's such strict guidelines around alcohol advertising maybe it was a zero zero Guinness that he was drinking exactly exactly

Nobody's under any illusions.

Oh man, the whole thing really gave me such a big laugh.

It also reminded me of, do you remember there was that big giant granny that came to Ireland and

Hang on, let me figure this out because it became, you know how things become lines in your friendships?

Beautiful Granny became a line from the reporting of it.

So it was, yeah, the Royal Deluxe Giant Granny was a 7.5 meter, one ton marionette.

And yeah, there was some reporting of it, which included the line, beautiful granny.

And my friends, Eimear MacLeysett and I have been saying beautiful granny to each other for the last, apparently, 12 years as a result.

She looks I think what's really disturbing about her is that she is like very lifelike.

Like you can imagine her walking on her own.

Well, Carl, thank you so much for taking us through the week's stories.

You have played a blinder as always.

If you want more Carl, and I know you do, check out his column Surrealing in the Years.

It's in the journal.ie every Saturday.

It is truly excellent.

You can also get him on social media, carl.kinsala on Instagram or carlkinsala on Blue Sky.