| For more than a wee while, we discussed the potato and poteen, that wickedly potent brew that has been known to kick-start a reluctant cow into labour. |
| The request was granted 12 hours later and I was rewarded with a bottle of poteen as the Doctors did not accept a fee in such cases. |
| The history of the Knockeen Hills brand is becoming a legend in itself, having first been produced when the sale of poteen was still illegal in Ireland. |
| There in the shebeen they sold poteen and punch while in the pubs, beer and spirits were available. |
| Apart from promoting food crops the papers at the time were full with reports of poteen making, hen stealing and, even in two cases, of people stealing potatoes from fields. |
| Well, he recently confessed to enjoying a regular breakfast of potatoes covered in Guinness washed down with a steaming hot mug of poteen. |
