On a recent visit to Ireland I encountered a Guinness maintenance guy on the sidewalk. They drive around the country in little trucks to all the pubs and clean the tap lines, to make sure the product is pure. I thanked him for his efforts, because I love Guinness. He said that there should be more people like me, 'cuz business was down. But I didn't realize it was so bad. The Irish pubs are good not only for their Guinness but for their music, just regular townspeople who come in every night and play sweet music, which elevates them in this respect from their British cousins across the Irish Sea. So this news is doubly bad.