Tampa Bay

As we’ve all heard, the Four Green Fields original location has shut down. Two takeaways. I once asked owner Colin Breen why he didn’t have wall-to-wall TV screens as a part of contemporary decor and customer lure. “We want people to talk to each other,” he explained. And while animated conversations with Bob Buckhorn were always engaging, I also recall an especially memorable exchange with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, who noted, in effect, that violence in Northern Ireland was no longer necessary leverage. Within a generation or two, he said, the Catholic demographics—resulting in majority status—would be a de facto game changer.

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