For a man who claims to have gone on a pub crawl in Dublin you didn't mention many pubs.

You are not going to find the high brow or the wealth of museums in Dublin that you will in the heavy hitters. Youmust bear in mind that this is a country where culture was exported though the people and artifacts through the british empire.

Spend a morning shopping on Grafton Street then when you get to the top of the street turn left. The first bar you meet will be in the Shelboure hotel. An historic spot, carry on down the street into O'Donoghue's for some traditional irish music and if you're hungry a toasted sandwich. You can pub crawl your way to Lansdowne Road and in doing so sample a range of some of the finest pubs in the world. By me reckoning there from The Shelbourne to the stadium there are 12 pubs, each one of them worth having a pint in with no pressure to drink the "black stuff" in any of them.

So the next time you decide to write a lazy piece about a city at least engage a local in conversation while in one of the pubs and if your lucky he'll be some struggling writer who might even pen the article for you.

And if you want some drunken culture on the way on this route you will never be more than five minutes walk from the government buildings, national library, national art museum, merrion and fitzwilliam squares, you'll also get to sit beside patrick cavanagh on a bench by the canal before arriving at the oldest international rugby ground in the world.

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