This week’s question: Inflation has pushed the price of a pint of Guinness in Ireland above 6 euros ($7.08) for the first time, a hike one lawmaker called “absolutely wild.” If an Irish folk singer were to write a ballad lamenting the increasing unaffordability of a night out at the pub, what would the song be titled?
RESULTS:
THE WINNER: “Erin Go Broke”
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SECOND PLACE: “O Danny Boy, the Price of Stout’s Appalling”
THIRD PLACE: “Molly, a Loan?”
“Finnegan’s Take”
“Tapped Out in the Tap Room”
“Keg o’ My Heart, No More”
“House of the Rising Sum”
“‘Tis Beyond a Reasonable Stout”
“Nothing Compares 2 Brew”
“An Arm, a Leg, and a Half-Empty Keg”
“Prices are Dublin”
“Gotta Downscale When I Down Ale”
“The Saddest Guinness Record of All”
“I Can’t Afford to Cry in My Beer”
“When Irish Mouths are Drying”
“My Wild Inflation Woes”