Harry: James Bond author Ian Fleming got Irish Brit Harry Buckle his first job as a journalist in London’s Fleet Street. He then became a music publisher, where - with no apparent help from Fleming (or Bond)- he surprisingly found himself working with both the UK’s MI6 & Russia’s KGB security services. “My books owe more to my many years business travels than my time as an accidental spy.” Harry is a Guinness man.

Focksy: Ex TV reporter-now pub landlord- Irish American German Focks Schnauzer (Think CNN’s Wolf Blitzer with better-or worse-jokes depending on your pedigree) suggests ‘Surviving his name’ at schools in Ireland, Germany & America has given him some Yossarian like Catch 22 characteristics. Focksy is a Kundmullers Kapfenduster man.

Kernow McMullen: With Kernow being Celtic for England’s Cornwall & my McMullen’s being from Dublin for many years folks were always keen discuss Football & The Troubles with me. These days (thankfully) Rugby & Guinness are the conversation keys, although having long worked as a journalist in Cork- I’m a Murphy’s man.