Expertise has taken a bit of a bashing in recent years but we will always need people we can trust, from our family doctor to our butcher.
Given my age, I have also acquired a tailor, a watchmaker and a shoemaker, and I have dozens of wine merchants whose advice I value; this week many of them won awards.
Congratulations to McHughs on the Malahide Road for winning National Off-Licence of the Year, their second win in three years.
It’s a fine shop with a brilliant selection of beers as well as wines and spirits.
They began as a grocery shop in 1962 before becoming a full off-licence in 1995.
A year later they opened a second shop on Kilbarrack Road and that shop won Beer Specialist of the Year, a double win for the McHugh family.
O’Donovan’s Midleton also won double with…