Rare photo shows Queen Elizabeth receiving a bottle of illegal poitin in Ireland

Must be a slow news day !!

The above story has been very carefully crafted to suggest that this incident involving the then Princess Elizbeth, occurred in Ireland.Clever? Certainly! Accurate? No! Stop taking us for fools IC, we deserve better!

Its whiskey that makes you frisky and beer that makes you cheer. I guess she's a whiskey drinker. No poitin have I, sad! The Irish will have to do.

Reading this article actually gave me a mild headache. Thankfully both Bythebay and Rudy Polk have commented very eloquently before me - I concur completely with both. I will say however that while I enjoy visiting and reading IrishCentral.com the standard of journalism is incredibly low - considering that there is obviously a lot of money generated by the many advertisers on the site. They - and we the readers - deserve better. Off to get some Advil now.

This story is totally misleading and incorrect. It occurred in Northern Ireland UK, not Ireland. Queen Elizabeth's first visit to Ireland was in 2011. The alleged poitin still was completely made up by the RUC, Royal Ulster Constabulary, police It was a joke on the then Princess during her visit to Belfast, Northern Ireland UK. The actual real story, not this garbled version, is on BBC UK Northern Ireland.

I am confused by the headline 'Rare photo shows Queen Elizabeth turning down a drink of illegal poitin in Ireland' followed by the first sentence: Just last year Queen Elizabeth raised some eyebrows while visiting Dublin by turning down a pint of Guinness at the St James’ Gate but it seems she’ll accept poitín. If QEII turned down the poitin, then why does the author claim QEII accepted it? Is the idea that she took an interest in the ruse what makes the author say that QEII accepted poitin? What is the thrust of the story here? I understand that some people were offended that she declined a drink of Guinness in '11, but what does that story have to do with the poitin when she was 19? Why say she accepted it when she did NOT drink it? Does the author mean that she accepted it because she checked it out? BFD. Please enlighten if I am missing a real story.