"She and her mum visited the mayor of Cork last year. Mayor's wife had this little prize winning poodle yip dog thing. They were gone for five minutes... dog was shaved and covered in honey," Kale says with a bit of a sigh.

But onto more serious business he nods. "We were getting ready to but the War put a halt to that and when we finally got ourselves producing again..."

The unspoken is that you idiot Yanks went and passed Prohibition.