Blarney

But within a number of months, I think I became a member, maybe six or nine months.

Well, I remember you and I meeting and going to Blarney and going to a pub in Blarney.

Now I'm a member of Blarney Toastmasters.

So this was a pub in a village.

And with Ted Malanphy, I think it was, who has interviewed you before.

It was Liverpool against Chelsea.

It was the FA Cup final.

Everybody in the world was watching it, apart from the... for this pub in Blarney.

FM.

There's another coffee morning Esther was on to say the Collins sisters are holding a coffee morning this morning from Marymount in the Castle Hotel in Blarney.

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Now the Ed Sheeran saga continues after the dropping of Macklemore from the tour and then Bioga at the band walked out and all the other support acts walked out.

Nevertheless, legends grew.

The famous Blarney Stone, said to give anyone who kisses it the gift of gab, is sometimes claimed to be a piece of the Leofol.

Geochemical analysis indicating that the Blarney Stone is actually limestone from that area of Blarney seems to discount this claim.

But Scottish folklore also claims their possession of the true leofol, which is said to be one and the same as their Stone of Scone, a stone likewise used in coronations since the 13th century.

In its first recorded use, the Scottish king being crowned, Alexander II, was claimed to be descended directly from Skota.

However, the block of stone said to be the Stone of Skun has also been analyzed.

It is sandstone with the same color, texture, and mineral assemblage as sandstone in a quarry near Skun Palace.

It is nothing like the carboniferous limestone of the Blarney Stone or the granite of the Leofol at the Hill of Tara.

That's part of their charm.

Is that the Blarney? With no stone.

But

do you know, I have to digress here for a minute.

I just thought of this.

Eddie Fitzpatrick, many years ago, He was one of the great marketers of all time.

You'd think Walt Disney was good, Eddie was better, because he created his own Blarney Stone.

Do you remember that, Kevin? You guys don't remember it, probably.

You just go along.

Where was the cat show on? It was on in Bantry or Blarney.

It was in Cork.

All

You know, they'd be a role model when it comes to toilets.

The likes of Blarney, you know, they're another private operation.

But, you know, international visitors, certainly those from Europe anyway, are well used to paying 20, 30, 40 cents, a euro even, to use the toilet.

So even if they were coin-operated.

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce return as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in a St. Patrick's season case set in Ireland.

From the Mutual Broadcasting System, this is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, episode 210, "The Adventure of the Blarney Stone," first heard March 18th, 1946.

Visiting Cork, Blarney Village, and Blarney Castle shortly after the holiday, Holmes and Watson meet the abrasive English businessman Geoffrey Hankin.

After a pub quarrel leads to a wager involving the castle's famous stone, a fall from the ramparts leaves Holmes to consider whether accident is the whole explanation.

Dennis Green and Anthony Bausch wrote this original radio play, produced by Harold Kemp.

[laughs] They certainly have an aversion to seals, don't they? Well, Doctor, are you all ready with tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure?

Yes, my boy, and as yesterday was St. Patrick's Day, I decided to tell you a story that took place in Ireland, a, a few years before the turn of the century.

I imagine that you've heard of kissing the Blarney Stone, haven't you?

And the knitting patterns were the small little brochure on how you could knit iron sweaters and other sweaters.

And my aunt used to actually design those sweaters for Sunbeam Woolsey in Cork and Blarney in Cork.

Fantastic.

And Mahoney's of Blarney, as it was called then.

And that's where the Blarney's woolen mills are now in Cork, if you're ever down that part of the country.

And it's a lovely, lovely area and great history about it.

So I travelled throughout the country.