PRINCESS’ TOUR
SEES "ILLICIT STILL"
FEW MILES FROM EIRE
PRESENTED WITH POTEEN (11 a.m.) LONDON, March 22. Princess Elizabeth watched the illicit spirit poteen being made in an illicit still a few miles from the border of Eire. Two desperate-looking characters, William Mills and Mike McTeague, were tending a peat fire and a copper distilling plant hidden behind a wall of peat blocks when the Princess walked in, accompanied by her uncle the Governor of Northern Ireland, Lord Granville, and Lady Granville, also the Prime Minister, Sir Basil Brooke, and the Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary, Sir Richard Pimm. The distillers, nevertheless, went on with their work undisturbed because, as the still was used by the police to demonstrate to new recruits the look of the process, it was “legal and above board.”
The Princess, when she emerged from the secret still was presented with a wooden box containing a pint bottle of poteen labelled Mountain Dew by the head constable.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21978, 23 March 1946, Page 5
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162PRINCESS’ TOUR Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21978, 23 March 1946, Page 5
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