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PJ Guerin (The Kingfisher) of Castleconnell, Co. Limerick
Paddy’s pub offers perhaps a dozen different seating arrangements, flowery sofas, quirky bar stools, upturned half-casks, railway benches, church pews, rough wooden tables, everything different. ‘I’m like a crow', he says. 'I pick up things. Everything is borrowed, never given back or stolen’.