BSW3A 6. Tullynaglaggin times

Speaker: Dan GallagherFrom The Bluestack Way - Part 3 playlist.Directions On a corner of the R262, you'll see a number of buildings on the left. You're looking at what once was The Bog Hotel belonging to Patsy Brogan. No, it is not an hotel and no, it is not a bar. Sort of. Patsy Brogan and his young Polish fiancee, Daria Weiske, fought the law and the law lost in trying to call this place a shebeen or illegal drinking den. If you were lucky enough to get into it, you could find out for yourself, but the hotel, like Patsy, is now just a memory.  Patsy maintained the fully-fitted pub in a shed at the back of his home – dubbed the Bog Hotel – is where friends and tourists could call in for a drink and claimed he did not charge for drink, preferring to refer to the place as a ceili house.  In our audio piece, we introduce you to another man who grew up at the foot of Binbane mountain, Dan Gallagher, who tell is like it is. He had a farm in nearby Tullynaglaggin.