Michael Moynihan: Your cup of tea? Coffee shops nourish the economy  

Coffee shops are the lifeblood of any city and we should support them as we emerge from lockdown.  Picture: Andy Gibson

It is one of the great asides in a book of great asides.

In Ulysses, Leopold Bloom wonders about possible routes across Dublin, the capital: “Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub,” he thinks,  solidifying Dublin’s place in the imagination as a cityscape festooned with bars and speakeasies and saloons, so pub-heavy that some pubs have a pub hidden within them, a never-ending series of counters and beer pumps keeping regulars happy.