Pub serves up two constituencies

THE pint is poured in one constituency, handed over the counter and drunk in another.

Much to the bemusement of local tipplers, a Co Cork pub has been split down the middle due to a bizarre redrawing of two constituencies.

Publican John O’Mahony explained that most of his hostelry on Watergrasshill’s main street, including all of the bar counter, is in the townland of Meenane, which is incorporated in the Cork North Central constituency.

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