EVEN the prettiest town square can look dull after business has ended for the day.

IT may not have been Dylan Thomas’ “mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore” but the view from the windows at Deasy’s Seafood Bar in Ring, outside Clonakilty, Co Cork, is as captivating as I imagine the shoreline that shaped the Welshman’s sublime Poem in October must have been.

THERE is something defiant about a restaurant that, in our pestered, politically-correct times, is called a chop house.

EATING out is usually best done as a couple or in a goodly-sized group; intimate or varied and boisterous are best.

WIGAN manager Roberto Martinez is convinced Liverpool will finish fourth in the Premier League.

AFTER a slow start, Fulham’s season is beginning to assume its customary polish under the impressive Roy Hodgson.