“Nora, who would give a grumpy old fart a free pint? Nobody! So that’s why I have to make somebody laugh, to get a free pint. ”
Interview with Tony Dowling
October 10, 2017
Kingstonian Tony Dowling tells Margi McKay about Bob Earls, nicknamed “The Earl of Rathcoole”, who lived in the Dowlings’ chicken coop in Rathcoole, Ireland for a time in the 1960s.
Remembered fondly as a hobo, a gardener and a handyman, a gravedigger, a storyteller and a drunk, when Bob was cleaned up for Christmas dinner he looked like Errol Flynn. Tony describe some of Bob’s adventures in Rathcoole and nearby Saggart and Dublin.