Restaurant review: Linnane’s Lobster Bar, Co Clare

Linnane’s Seafood Bar and Restaurant is located at New Quay in Clare and run by Eileen and Vincent Graham.

EATING near the seashore, on the very edge of the tide where those lingering smells of half-deckers’ diesel, frayed, drying ropes, seaweed turning to acrid soil to be eventually blown back to sea and jumbles of lobster pots stacked like an already-drunk July 12 bonfire of hate, whets the appetite for good food, like the three daughters of the old river god Achelous — the Sirens — whetted appetites sometimes as pressing but not always as easily satisfied.

Despite everything, despite shaking off the old shackles of judgement and fear, getting a Big Mac to-go is probably still easier than getting a Ms Mac to go. Or, dear sisters, even a shy Mr Mac.