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Our Murphy's Brewery in
Cork is situated amongst
hills as green as only Irish
hills can be. The sea,
always a supèr blue,
separates this brewery
from the small island of
Cape Clear, about 8 miles
away by boat.
Beer from the 'swamp'
Oldest customer
Jerome Dwyer on the way to his 'lonely'
customers.
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'An Club', one of Cape Clear's friendly little pubs. Orders awaiting shipment on the quayside.
LONELY CUSTOMERS
The island has only had mains
electricity since 1972. Not too
many years ago important
messages were put inside a tin canister
and thrown into the sea at flood tide to
keep the island's inhabitants in touch
with the latest events. Today, the
140 people who live on Cape Clear,
including three customers of Murphy's
Brewery, are still sent their beer across
on a sturdy little ferry boat.
Jerome Dwyer, aged 25, knows about
all Ireland's national sports, as well as
all the latest scores. A maintenance
fitter at Murphy's, he also cleans the
beer dispensing units on Cape Clear,
but his knowledge of sport is just as
important to his customers as the way
he cleans the beer pipes. The proper
manner of getting along with
customers is something that Jerome
learnt from his father. Before his
retirement, Mr. Dwyer senior worked
as a representative for Murphy's and he
still likes to go along with his son now
and again to look up his former
customers on Cape Clear.
Besides cleaning the dispensing units,
lives in the same house as always. She
knows the Dwyer family from the time
when Jerome Dwyer senior used to
come across the water as a
representative of Murphy's. Now there
is electricity on Cape Clear and there's
no need for urgent orders of beer to be
put in a tin canister and carried on the
tidal current to the island. But the
peace and tranquillity surrounding the
Cape Clear islanders as they sip their
beer still remains unchanged.
Jerome Dwyer also installs them.
'Heineken is doing well in Ireland', he
says. Not long ago Jerome installed
40 new Heineken dispensers. There's
almost a waiting list for them. In earlier
days 700 people lived on Cape Clear.
But most of them left for other places,
often going to Dublin because they can
earn more thereBut those who stayed
behind are not lonely. Thousands of
tourists come to Cape Clear each year,
even from as far away as Japan. They
come for the peace, the restfulness of
the sea, for the gentle nature of the
sturdy islanders, and to drink their
beer in one of the friendly little pubs.
'An Club' is just one example. The
name of this establishment, which is
Paddy Burke, seated behind the counter. Paddy's grocery shop is Murphy's oldest
customer on Cape Clear.
managed by Mary Leonard, is Gaelic
for "the club". Gaelic is one of
Ireland's two official languages. That
language is still spoken a lot in Ireland,
alongside English. The towns and
villages, for instance, mostly have two
names, an English one and a Gaelic
one. Cork is also known as Corcaigh.
That means 'swamp'The Gaelic name
of Dublin means 'black pool'.
Cotter's Bar, run by Mary Odriscoll
and her husband, is another Cape
Clear customer for maintenance fitter
Jerome Dwyer. The beer pipes here
only need to be rinsed clean during the
summer, as the owners spend eight
months of the year on the mainland, on
the south coast of Ireland. This bar is
where the true connoisseur can find the
only draught Heineken supply that the
tiny island can boast to date. Murphy's
stout is available everywhere.
Murphy's oldest customer on Cape
Clear, where the familiar stout has
probably been sold ever since the
brewery's foundation in 1858, is the
grocery shop owned by Paddy Burke.
Paddy's mother, ninety years old, still
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