I'm not going back! You cant make me!

I gave this a go and also ended up back in Dublin. I was in Ireland for a bit in the summer of '97 as part of my first overseas experience. While there, I found out, among other things, that cobblestones wreak havoc on the alignment of wheelchair wheels and a few free samples of whiskey make it much harder to get back on the tour bus.

Dr. Lynch and all:

Despite my previous comment, Guinness tends to be "adult beverage" of choice. I also like Ben & Jerry's. What happens when you put them together? "Black & Tan" ice cream apparently http://benjerry.com/our_products/flavor_details.cfm?product_id=180. I think for now I'll stick to drinking pints instead of eating them.

And the world's loneliest Web users are..

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland may be enjoying stellar economic growth and seen as one of the best places in the world to live, but its inhabitants are apparently also the globe's loneliest.

Google Trends, which works out how many searches have been done via the Internet search engine on particular terms, showed the word "lonely" was entered most frequently by Internet users in Ireland: http://www.google.com/trends?q=lonely.

The Irish, enjoying new-found wealth and a flood of immigration following more than a century of economic decline, are followed in the misery stakes by residents of Singapore and New Zealand -- although Singaporeans are the most frequent searchers of "happiness."

Google Trends calculates the ratio of searches for a given term coming from each city, region or language divided by total Google searches coming from the same area.

Ireland's capital, Dublin, topped the city list for "lonely" searches, followed by Melbourne, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand.

In 2004, the Economist magazine named Ireland the best place to live in the world in a "quality of life" assessment.