Procession to open brewery

Dublin's first micro brewery, The Porterhouse Brewing Company, was opened last night.

Dublin's first micro brewery, The Porterhouse Brewing Company, was opened last night.

A New Orleans style funeral procession, lamenting the death of the numerous Irish breweries, complete with samba band, Brazilian dancers, fire eaters, jugglers and an antique horse drawn hearse, wound its way through Temple Bar to the new brewery in Parliament Street.

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