Kerry ice-cream man convicted of selling poitín says ‘Revenue treated me like one of the Kinahan gang’ – SundayWorld.com

by Prestigious_Talk6652

11 comments

  1. Probably shouldn’t sell drink without a licence so

  2. He needs to learn what ice cream vans are used for in the big city……

  3. He’s got 99 problems but ice-cream ain’t one.

  4. Haven’t heard of anyone being done for poitín since the early 1980’s. There often used to be news reports of the guards raiding stills and pouring the contents down the drain. My father used to keep a drop in one of those plastic Virgin Mary holy water bottles. Took a nip as a kid and it nearly blew the head off me.

  5. “we also added some vodka to make it more drinkable”

    That sounds like student logic to me

  6. Man committing crime complains about being treated like a criminal.

  7. I think the public safety concern has gone over the man’s head.

  8. Just googled the origin of Kinahan. So it is actually a version of Cunningham.

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    This name was **originally Cuinneagan, from the Scots Gaelic cuinneag, meaning “milk-pail”**, and was given its present form through the mistake of a twelfth-century English scribe who transcribed the ending as “-ham”, a purely English suffix meaning “village”.

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    So either you work in the dairy industry (ice-cream man) or you become a cunning form of pork!

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    Who’d have thought!

  9. >“You can’t go in a pub or coffee shop in this country without seeing people snorting cocaine in every toilet. And nobody does a thing about it … people can be as brazen as they like.

    >“And yet, here Revenue are chasing a 71-year-old man over a bit of poitín … there isn’t a house in Kerry that doesn’t have a bottle of poitín in it.”

    This man doesn’t know the difference between Revenue and the Garda

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