GOOD to know when we all start jet-setting again that a well-loved Irish-themed The Parting Glass pub and restaurant in Saratoga Springs, New York has been saved from closure thanks to a grant from the Barstool Fund. Joan Desadora, the 81-year-old owner of the pub, was about to put the shutters up when she got a call from Dave Portnoy, the philanthropist who started the Barstool Fund to provide emergency funding to small businesses.

Desadora had bought the pub back in 1981 after falling in love with Ireland during a trip here in 1980, even though she is from an “old-fashioned Italian family”!