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Why it’s time to try poitín, Ireland’s beloved national spirit
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Eight years ago, a friend of mine who’d grown up in County Fermanagh led me to a cave behind a waterfall which housed a secret. There, my torch light illuminated an old pot still — a relic …