In the first of a
two-part series, a trip to a Rwandan tea plantation leads to an
exploration of how the second World War led to the tea we drink in
Ireland being of unusually high quality – and what all this has to do
with Anglo Irish Ban
The blame for Ireland’s cataclysmic economic crash can be traced back to
tea. Were it not for our enduring love of the stuff, a love stretching
back more than 100 years, we might not have been forced by our European
overlords to don an economic hairshirt following all that banking
unpleasantness in 2008 (more of which anon)... (Read more)
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