Cobh pub joins rebel rank and lights up

“TO SMOKE or not to smoke?” was the question on the lips of punters in Cobh, Co Cork yesterday as confusion reigned in Connie Doolan’s bar.

With its owner, Danny Brogan, in absentia, the woman ruling the roost in his place was having none of it.

On the one hand we were treated to TV pictures of Danny puffing to his heart’s content in rebel Galway pub Fibber Magees and telling the nation his pub would follow suit. Down Titanic way, his stand-in manager said not on her shift.