The wrong stone? That’s a load of blarney

A WAR of words erupted last night over claims that millions of people have been kissing the wrong Blarney Stone.

The wrong stone? That’s a load of blarney

A book by British archaeologist and architectural historian Mark Samuels and his wife, Kate Hamlyn, suggests that statesmen, world leaders and millions of visitors have been “romancing the wrong stone” for about 200 years.

Their claims that the world-famous stone, which is supposed to bestow the gift of the gap, attracted worldwide media attention yesterday.

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