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If you happen to be in Dublin – visiting or living.

If you happen to be one of the many with a Tea habit that needs continual porcelain rattling fixing.

If you happen to be one of my brothers and sisters that can barely move let alone speak without a steaming black cup of ambition.

Then you will need to know about Moynihan and Dent Coffee and Tea (M&D Coffee and Tea.)

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It is of a rare occasion that you perchance to hear a melody, a tune – no, a hymn – on the Gramophone that later allows you to remark;

“So that’s how I ended up with tobacco burns on my gullet, a broken toe and my poor Cossack Semyon following me around with a bedpan waiting for my monocle to pass.

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We at the Mountain would like to raise our hats, glasses and various appendages to…

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