Sligo Southern Hotel

Older hotel, pretty nice.  Restaurant is in the basement and the elevator doesn’t work the first evening.  Food is good for some, not so good for the roast beef selection.  The beef entree is referred to as shoe leather and is studiously avoided by all for the balance of the stay.  The vegetable offerings all three nights are not only the same boiled carrots and parsnips, but appear to be re-heated night after night.  The hotel is a first-time for the tour.  Our leaders are generally dissatisfied with several apects of our stay, and will be giving the hotel management a spirited negative discussion and opening a can of Celtic whup-ass after the tour is over.  The pub upstairs, however, has some really good Madras chicken curry with rice, and at least one lunch for Paula and me is yummy.