The Old Man and the Alarm Clock: the Pub Photo that Went Viral
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The old man and the alarm clock: the pub photo that went viral:
He is already known as the man with the clock. When publican Fergus McGinn took a photograph of one of his customers and put it on his Facebook page, he hadn't reckoned with the interest it would generate.
The photograph shows his elderly customer drinking a pint of Guinness, his finished "substantial" meal in front of him. He is staring into space.
It is the alarm clock that gets to you. The man in question, unlike most of the rest of us, has no mobile phone or watch to keep the time so brought his alarm clock with him so he would not go over the allotted time of one hour and 45 minutes in the pub as a result of Covid-19 restrictions
[...] The photograph was described as the "Carravaggio for this age" by the poet Rye Aker who was commissioned by Galway 2020 to record the year in poetry.
He was so taken by it that he immediately penned the poem, The Man With The Clock.
It concludes: "But for now, there is the soft satisfaction of a bit washed down with a fine pint. A Ta Siad Ag Teacht for the age that's in it, And a clock stopped to hold the world from speeding the way it does."
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