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‘Happy Gilmore' became a cult comedy. 29 years later, Adam Sandler is swinging again
‘Happy Gilmore' became a cult comedy. 29 years later, Adam Sandler is swinging again

The Independent

time6 days ago

  • Entertainment
  • The Independent

‘Happy Gilmore' became a cult comedy. 29 years later, Adam Sandler is swinging again

'Happy Gilmore' was born on the range. When Adam Sandler was a kid growing up in New Hampshire, his father was an avid golfer. He'd often take his son along to hit balls at the driving range. But Sandler was uninterested in the sport, and usually got antsy. 'Why don't you bring a friend?' his dad told him. So Sandler took his buddy, Kyle McDonough, a star hockey player who'd later turn professional. 'He never played before but he was cracking the ball so far,' Sandler recalls. 'So when I started becoming a comedian and me and (Tim) Herlihy were writing stuff and stand-up and talking about movies, I started thinking about a guy who could hit it really big and had a hockey player mentality.' 'Happy Gilmore,' released in 1996, was Sander and Herlihy's second movie, following 'Billy Madison.' Sandler was just exiting 'Saturday Night Live.' Herlihy was Sandler's roommate at New York University and became a lawyer before Sandler got him to stick to writing comedy. (You might remember the 'Herlihy Boy' sketch.) 'We had just done our first movie, 'Billy Madison,' and we put every idea we ever had for a movie in that movie,' says Herlihy. 'So when they said we could do another movie, it was like, 'What are we going to do this movie about?'' 'Happy Gilmore,' released in February 1996, became one of the most beloved comedies of the '90s and codified the hockey-style swing as a mainstay on golf courses. 'A hop, skip and a hit,' as Sandler says. The movie also made comic heroes of Bob Barker, Christopher McDonald and Carl Weathers, and made lines like 'Are you too good for your home?' plausible things to ask golf balls. Like most cult comedies, 'Happy Gilmore' didn't start out an obvious instant classic, though. 'A one-joke 'Caddyshack' for the blitzed and jaded,' wrote EW. 'To describe Happy's antics as boorish is putting it mildly,' wrote The New York Times. ''Happy Gilmore' tells the story of a violent sociopath,' wrote Roger Ebert. He called it 'the latest in the dumber and dumbest sweepstakes.' 'Happy Gilmore' was a box-office success, grossing $39 million in the U.S. and Canada. And through worn-out DVDs and regular TV reruns, it became a favorite to generations of golfers and a staple of goofy '90s comedy. 'I can't even tell you how many times I've seen that movie,' says the actor-filmmaker Benny Safdie, who co-directed Sandler in 'Uncut Gems.' 'It was on an endless loop. I had the DVD and I just kept watching it. I can close my eyes and see the movie end to end. It's one of my favorite movies.' Now, nearly three decades later, and after years of batting away pleas for a sequel, Sandler has finally put Happy's Bruins jersey back on. 'Happy Gilmore 2,' which Netflix will debut Friday, is arguably the most anticipated streaming release of the summer. Avoiding a comedy sequel curse Sandler was well aware of the checkered history of comedy sequels. Movies like 'Zoolander 2' and 'Anchorman 2' have struggled to recapture the freewheeling spirit of the originals. The movie Sandler counts as his favorite, 'Caddyshack' — so much so that he was initially hesitant to make a golf comedy — spawned 1988's woebegone 'Caddyshack II.' 'If someone brought it up to us, we were like, 'Yeah, no, we're not going to do that,'' Sandler said in a recent interview alongside Herlihy. 'There was no moment we went 'Aha.' It just kind of happened. The last couple years, we were talking about Happy and how it might be funny if he was down and out.' In 'Happy Gilmore 2,' co-written by Sandler and Herlihy, Happy is a decorated retired golfer with four sons and a daughter (played by Sandler's daughter, Sunny Sandler). But after a tragic incident and falling on hard times, he's lured back into golf. This time, though, Happy is an insider, motivated to protect the sport. Safdie co-stars as the founder of Maxi Golf, a new circus-like tour with long hitters. 'We thought it could be fun to write something like that' says Sandler. 'It kind of connected to our lives and this age, and wanting to make a full-on comedy. There's nothing better than dropping a comedy and trying to make people laugh, to us. It feels like why we originally got into this business.' Big, broad comedies have grown almost extinct in the decades since 'Happy Gilmore.' Returning to that style of comedy was, for Sandler and Herlihy, the best reason to make the sequel. For the 58-year-old friends and regular collaborators, it was a chance to riff like they used to. 'We were outlining the story together and then we were like, 'We should watch the first one again, man,'' Sandler says. 'We're going off of our memory of so many things, hanging out with Carl Weathers and Bob Barker and all that stuff. Then we watched it and we were like, 'Oh, yeah.' It was a tone.' 'It made a little more sense than 'Billy Madison,'' says Herlihy, 'but we weren't afraid to swing, swing, swing.' A supporting cast of PGA winners Cameos, of course, were a major part of 'Happy Gilmore.' (The Bob Barker scene was originally written for Ed McMahon.) In the years since, many of the faces of the original have died, including Barker, Weathers, Frances Bay, the hulking Richard Kiel and Joe Flaherty, who played the heckler. Even the golf ball-stealing alligator, Morris, has passed on. 'Happy Gilmore 2,' unusually elegiac for a proudly silly comedy, nods to all of them. For the sequel, many others, like Travis Kelce and Margaret Qualley, were lining up to be a part of it. So were pro golfers. Just about all the big names in golf, including several legends, appear. The day after winning Sunday's British Open, Scottie Scheffler flew to New York for the premiere. Over the years, Herlihy and Sandler have seen a lot of them try 'the Happy Gilmore.' 'I feel like when these golfers try to do it, these pros, they're 5% thinking, 'Maybe this will work,'' says Herlihy, laughing. 'I played with Bryson (DeChambeau) like a week ago and when he did it, it was ridiculous,' adds Sandler. 'He literally blasted it 360 and just kept walking. I was like, 'Did he just smash the Happy Gilmore and not even think about it?'' It's possible that 'the Happy Gilmore' will even outlive the movies. There's a good chance that, even as you read this, somewhere some kid is trying it, hoping to get a laugh and maybe get it on the fairway, too. 'When we were putting it together, I called my dad and asked him if it was legal. He was like, 'I don't see why not,'' Sandler remembers. 'Then there are some people who look at it and go: 'It does help you swing hard. It gives you more momentum. You turn your hips faster. Maybe it's a good thing.''

‘Happy Gilmore' became a cult comedy. 29 years later, Adam Sandler is swinging again
‘Happy Gilmore' became a cult comedy. 29 years later, Adam Sandler is swinging again

Associated Press

time6 days ago

  • Entertainment
  • Associated Press

‘Happy Gilmore' became a cult comedy. 29 years later, Adam Sandler is swinging again

NEW YORK (AP) — 'Happy Gilmore' was born on the range. When Adam Sandler was a kid growing up in New Hampshire, his father was an avid golfer. He'd often take his son along to hit balls at the driving range. But Sandler was uninterested in the sport, and usually got antsy. 'Why don't you bring a friend?' his dad told him. So Sandler took his buddy, Kyle McDonough, a star hockey player who'd later turn professional. 'He never played before but he was cracking the ball so far,' Sandler recalls. 'So when I started becoming a comedian and me and (Tim) Herlihy were writing stuff and stand-up and talking about movies, I started thinking about a guy who could hit it really big and had a hockey player mentality.' 'Happy Gilmore,' released in 1996, was Sander and Herlihy's second movie, following 'Billy Madison.' Sandler was just exiting 'Saturday Night Live.' Herlihy was Sandler's roommate at New York University and became a lawyer before Sandler got him to stick to writing comedy. (You might remember the 'Herlihy Boy' sketch.) 'We had just done our first movie, 'Billy Madison,' and we put every idea we ever had for a movie in that movie,' says Herlihy. 'So when they said we could do another movie, it was like, 'What are we going to do this movie about?'' 'Happy Gilmore,' released in February 1996, became one of the most beloved comedies of the '90s and codified the hockey-style swing as a mainstay on golf courses. 'A hop, skip and a hit,' as Sandler says. The movie also made comic heroes of Bob Barker, Christopher McDonald and Carl Weathers, and made lines like 'Are you too good for your home?' plausible things to ask golf balls. Like most cult comedies, 'Happy Gilmore' didn't start out an obvious instant classic, though. 'A one-joke 'Caddyshack' for the blitzed and jaded,' wrote EW. 'To describe Happy's antics as boorish is putting it mildly,' wrote The New York Times. ''Happy Gilmore' tells the story of a violent sociopath,' wrote Roger Ebert. He called it 'the latest in the dumber and dumbest sweepstakes.' 'Happy Gilmore' was a box-office success, grossing $39 million in the U.S. and Canada. And through worn-out DVDs and regular TV reruns, it became a favorite to generations of golfers and a staple of goofy '90s comedy. 'I can't even tell you how many times I've seen that movie,' says the actor-filmmaker Benny Safdie, who co-directed Sandler in 'Uncut Gems.' 'It was on an endless loop. I had the DVD and I just kept watching it. I can close my eyes and see the movie end to end. It's one of my favorite movies.' Now, nearly three decades later, and after years of batting away pleas for a sequel, Sandler has finally put Happy's Bruins jersey back on. 'Happy Gilmore 2,' which Netflix will debut Friday, is arguably the most anticipated streaming release of the summer. Avoiding a comedy sequel curse Sandler was well aware of the checkered history of comedy sequels. Movies like 'Zoolander 2' and 'Anchorman 2' have struggled to recapture the freewheeling spirit of the originals. The movie Sandler counts as his favorite, 'Caddyshack' — so much so that he was initially hesitant to make a golf comedy — spawned 1988's woebegone 'Caddyshack II.' 'If someone brought it up to us, we were like, 'Yeah, no, we're not going to do that,'' Sandler said in a recent interview alongside Herlihy. 'There was no moment we went 'Aha.' It just kind of happened. The last couple years, we were talking about Happy and how it might be funny if he was down and out.' In 'Happy Gilmore 2,' co-written by Sandler and Herlihy, Happy is a decorated retired golfer with four sons and a daughter (played by Sandler's daughter, Sunny Sandler). But after a tragic incident and falling on hard times, he's lured back into golf. This time, though, Happy is an insider, motivated to protect the sport. Safdie co-stars as the founder of Maxi Golf, a new circus-like tour with long hitters. 'We thought it could be fun to write something like that' says Sandler. 'It kind of connected to our lives and this age, and wanting to make a full-on comedy. There's nothing better than dropping a comedy and trying to make people laugh, to us. It feels like why we originally got into this business.' Big, broad comedies have grown almost extinct in the decades since 'Happy Gilmore.' Returning to that style of comedy was, for Sandler and Herlihy, the best reason to make the sequel. For the 58-year-old friends and regular collaborators, it was a chance to riff like they used to. 'We were outlining the story together and then we were like, 'We should watch the first one again, man,'' Sandler says. 'We're going off of our memory of so many things, hanging out with Carl Weathers and Bob Barker and all that stuff. Then we watched it and we were like, 'Oh, yeah.' It was a tone.' 'It made a little more sense than 'Billy Madison,'' says Herlihy, 'but we weren't afraid to swing, swing, swing.' A supporting cast of PGA winners Cameos, of course, were a major part of 'Happy Gilmore.' (The Bob Barker scene was originally written for Ed McMahon.) In the years since, many of the faces of the original have died, including Barker, Weathers, Frances Bay, the hulking Richard Kiel and Joe Flaherty, who played the heckler. Even the golf ball-stealing alligator, Morris, has passed on. 'Happy Gilmore 2,' unusually elegiac for a proudly silly comedy, nods to all of them. For the sequel, many others, like Travis Kelce, Bad Bunny and Margaret Qualley, were lining up to be a part of it. So were pro golfers. Just about all the big names in golf, including several legends, appear. The day after winning Sunday's British Open, Scottie Scheffler flew to New York for the premiere. Over the years, Herlihy and Sandler have seen a lot of them try 'the Happy Gilmore.' 'I feel like when these golfers try to do it, these pros, they're 5% thinking, 'Maybe this will work,'' says Herlihy, laughing. 'I played with Bryson (DeChambeau) like a week ago and when he did it, it was ridiculous,' adds Sandler. 'He literally blasted it 360 and just kept walking. I was like, 'Did he just smash the Happy Gilmore and not even think about it?'' It's possible that 'the Happy Gilmore' will even outlive the movies. There's a good chance that, even as you read this, somewhere some kid is trying it, hoping to get a laugh and maybe get it on the fairway, too. 'When we were putting it together, I called my dad and asked him if it was legal. He was like, 'I don't see why not,'' Sandler remembers. 'Then there are some people who look at it and go: 'It does help you swing hard. It gives you more momentum. You turn your hips faster. Maybe it's a good thing.''

‘Happy Gilmore' became a cult comedy. 29 years later, Adam Sandler is swinging again
‘Happy Gilmore' became a cult comedy. 29 years later, Adam Sandler is swinging again

Al Arabiya

time6 days ago

  • Entertainment
  • Al Arabiya

‘Happy Gilmore' became a cult comedy. 29 years later, Adam Sandler is swinging again

Happy Gilmore was born on the range. When Adam Sandler was a kid growing up in New Hampshire, his father was an avid golfer. He'd often take his son along to hit balls at the driving range. But Sandler was uninterested in the sport and usually got antsy. 'Why don't you bring a friend?' his dad told him. So Sandler took his buddy Kyle McDonough, a star hockey player who'd later turn professional. 'He never played before, but he was cracking the ball so far,' Sandler recalls. 'So when I started becoming a comedian and me and (Tim) Herlihy were writing stuff and stand-up and talking about movies, I started thinking about a guy who could hit it really big and had a hockey player mentality.' Happy Gilmore, released in 1996, was Sander and Herlihy's second movie following Billy Madison. Sandler was just exiting Saturday Night Live. Herlihy was Sandler's roommate at New York University and became a lawyer before Sandler got him to stick to writing comedy. (You might remember the Herlihy Boy sketch.) 'We had just done our first movie, Billy Madison, and we put every idea we ever had for a movie in that movie,' says Herlihy. 'So when they said we could do another movie, it was like, What are we going to do this movie about?' Happy Gilmore, released in February 1996, became one of the most beloved comedies of the 90s and codified the hockey-style swing as a mainstay on golf courses. A hop, skip, and a hit, as Sandler says. The movie also made comic heroes of Bob Barker, Christopher McDonald, and Carl Weathers and made lines like 'Are you too good for your home?' plausible things to ask golf balls. Like most cult comedies, Happy Gilmore didn't start out an obvious instant classic though. 'A one-joke Caddyshack for the blitzed and jaded,' wrote EW. 'To describe Happy's antics as boorish is putting it mildly,' wrote The New York Times. 'Happy Gilmore tells the story of a violent sociopath,' wrote Roger Ebert. He called it the latest in the 'dumber and dumbest' sweepstakes. Happy Gilmore was a box-office success, grossing 39 million in the US and Canada. And through worn-out DVDs and regular TV reruns, it became a favorite to generations of golfers and a staple of goofy 90s comedy. 'I can't even tell you how many times I've seen that movie,' says the actor-filmmaker Benny Safdie, who co-directed Sandler in Uncut Gems. 'It was on an endless loop. I had the DVD, and I just kept watching it. I can close my eyes and see the movie end to end. It's one of my favorite movies.' Now, nearly three decades later, and after years of batting away pleas for a sequel, Sandler has finally put Happy's Bruins jersey back on. Happy Gilmore 2, which Netflix will debut Friday, is arguably the most anticipated streaming release of the summer. Avoiding a comedy sequel curse, Sandler was well aware of the checkered history of comedy sequels. Movies like Zoolander 2 and Anchorman 2 have struggled to recapture the freewheeling spirit of the originals. The movie Sandler counts as his favorite—Caddyshack–so much so that he was initially hesitant to make a golf comedy–spawned 1988's woebegone Caddyshack II. 'If someone brought it up to us, we were like, Yeah, no, we're not going to do that,' Sandler said in a recent interview alongside Herlihy. 'There was no moment we went Aha. It just kind of happened. The last couple years, we were talking about Happy and how it might be funny if he was down and out.' In Happy Gilmore 2, co-written by Sandler and Herlihy, Happy is a decorated retired golfer with four sons and a daughter (played by Sandler's daughter Sunny Sandler). But after a tragic incident and falling on hard times, he's lured back into golf. This time, though, Happy is an insider motivated to protect the sport. Safdie co-stars as the founder of Maxi Golf, a new circus-like tour with long hitters. 'We thought it could be fun to write something like that,' says Sandler. 'It kind of connected to our lives and this age and wanting to make a full-on comedy. There's nothing better than dropping a comedy and trying to make people laugh to us. It feels like why we originally got into this business. Big broad comedies have grown almost extinct in the decades since Happy Gilmore. Returning to that style of comedy was for Sandler and Herlihy the best reason to make the sequel. For the 58-year-old friends and regular collaborators, it was a chance to riff like they used to. 'We were outlining the story together, and then we were like, We should watch the first one again, man,' Sandler says. 'We're going off of our memory of so many things, hanging out with Carl Weathers and Bob Barker and all that stuff. Then we watched it, and we were like, Oh yeah. It was a tone.' 'It made a little more sense than Billy Madison,' says Herlihy, 'but we weren't afraid to swing, swing, swing.' A supporting cast of PGA winners. Cameos, of course, were a major part of Happy Gilmore. (The Bob Barker scene was originally written for Ed McMahon.) In the years since, many of the faces of the original have died, including Barker, Weathers, Frances Bay, the hulking Richard Kiel, and Joe Flaherty, who played the heckler. Even the golf ball-stealing alligator Morris has passed on. Happy Gilmore 2, unusually elegiac for a proudly silly comedy, nods to all of them. For the sequel, many others like Travis Kelce and Margaret Qualley were lining up to be a part of it. So were pro golfers. Just about all the big names in golf, including several legends, appear. The day after winning Sunday's British Open, Scottie Scheffler flew to New York for the premiere. Over the years, Herlihy and Sandler have seen a lot of them try the Happy Gilmore. 'I feel like when these golfers try to do it–these pros–they're 5 percent thinking, Maybe this will work,' says Herlihy, laughing. 'I played with Bryson (DeChambeau) like a week ago, and when he did it, it was ridiculous,' adds Sandler. 'He literally blasted it 360 and just kept walking. I was like, Did he just smash the Happy Gilmore and not even think about it?' It's possible that the Happy Gilmore will even outlive the movies. There's a good chance that even as you read this, somewhere some kid is trying it, hoping to get a laugh and maybe get it on the fairway too. 'When we were putting it together, I called my dad and asked him if it was legal. He was like, I don't see why not,' Sandler remembers. Then there are some people who look at it and go: It does help you swing hard. It gives you more momentum. You turn your hips faster. Maybe it's a good thing.

Happy Gilmore 2: Tragic reason behind sequel's major ‘rewrite'
Happy Gilmore 2: Tragic reason behind sequel's major ‘rewrite'

News.com.au

time21-07-2025

  • Entertainment
  • News.com.au

Happy Gilmore 2: Tragic reason behind sequel's major ‘rewrite'

The long-awaited sequel to cult comedy Happy Gilmore is finally here, almost thirty years after the original was released. It's the moment fans have been desperately waiting for, but the version of Happy Gilmore 2 premiering on Netflix this Friday will look different from what was initially planned – and for a tragic reason. Speaking to ahead of its release, Happy Gilmore co-creator and star Adam Sandler revealed that Carl Weathers, who played Chubbs Peterson ('it's all in the hips!'), had been 'so excited' to once again play a significant role. Sadly, Weathers died at the age of 74 last February, prior to filming getting underway. As a result, Sandler and co-writer Tim Herlihy were forced to make last-minute adjustments to the story while grieving their friend. 'We had to rewrite all that stuff and try to make a little tribute to him,' Sandler explained. 'He was such a good person, and was so excited about it.' He went on to describe their 'very close' friendship, formed on the set of the first Happy Gilmore film. 'We'd see each other a lot, we all miss hanging out with him. He was such a great presence … and not just in the film but during the shoot,' Sandler said. 'We all loved him and listened to everything he had to say.' Details around the plot of the highly-anticipated sequel have been tightly wrapped for years, but what fans do know is that 30 years after winning his first Tour Championship, Happy is forced out of retirement and back into the sport to pay for his daughter's expensive ballet school in France. Of course, hilarity – and chaos – ensues. Alongside Sandler, Julie Bowen makes her return as Virginia Venit, as well as original golf villain, Shooter McGavin (Chris McDonald). Alongside those core three comes a truly staggering line-up of celebrity cameos. Eminem, Bad Bunny, Post Malone, Travis Kelce, and just about every famous golfer on the planet turns up to join Happy's adventures in the next chapter, but Sandler revealed there was one person in particular who was 'over the moon' to be chosen. Critically-acclaimed Maid actress Margaret Qualley reportedly begged to be part of the sequel, and once she got on set, really gave it her all. 'It was so hysterical. In the movie she shot for four or five days and it was so nice with her, she's such a fun spirit – she's so hysterical,' he recalled. In fact, all these years on from the release of the smash hit original in 1996, when word spread around Hollywood that a follow-up was in the works, the calls to Sandler and his team started to come in thick and fast. 'It's funny, I would hear all over the place that 'so-and-so is excited, or would do something [in the movie], and then right when I'd hear that, I'd call [Herlihy] and say 'so-and-so said they want to do it, let's try and come up with something good',' Sandler explained. Without giving anything away, there's a fairly dramatic development with Happy's wife, Virginia, right at the start – but Bowen told she immediately knew it was the right way to tell the story. 'I was fully on board, I loved it,' the Modern Family star said. Fans will be relieved to know that its Herlihy and Sandler at the creative helm of Happy Gilmore 2, given their success writing together for the first instalment. That partnership brought with it some of the most-quoted cinematic lines of all time ('I eat pieces of s**t like you for breakfast!', anyone?) – many of which were delivered by Shooter. Ahead of his character's reprisal, McDonald still can't decide which of his many, many quips is the most iconic, but he credits all the comedy to Sandler. 'It's all him,' he told nodding at his co-star and laughing as he recalled his top picks. 'I've got so many of them! 'Congratulations, murderer!' … 'Go back to your shanties' …[or] 'I think I'm turning that into my trophy room'.' Meanwhile, with Happy Gilmore finally back for the next chapter, Sandler confirmed he'd consider bringing back more of his cult characters – on one condition. 'If [Bowen and McDonald] put on some weird costumes [and appear in them], I'll do it … that would be the one thing holding me back,' he said, prompting his co-stars to immediately offer suggestions. 'I'll be The Water Boy!' Bowen promised, with McDonald adding: 'I'm going to be your Zohan trainer.' Watch this space. Happy Gilmore 2 will be available to stream on Netflix from July 25.

Irish House to showcase the best of Irish drinks, hospitality and culture at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans
Irish House to showcase the best of Irish drinks, hospitality and culture at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans

Irish Daily Mirror

time23-06-2025

  • Business
  • Irish Daily Mirror

Irish House to showcase the best of Irish drinks, hospitality and culture at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans

The founders of Lost Irish Whiskey, the ARCD Agency NYC and Bord Bia are proud to present Irish House at Tales of The Cocktail festival in New Orleans. Taking place on Thursday July 24th from 1-6pm, it celebrates the spirit of Ireland in the heart of the French quarter. The Irish House is the largest single event gathering of Irish bars and Irish spirit brands, running at the world's largest cocktail and spirits festival. A first of its kind, it will showcase the best of Irish drinks, hospitality and culture all under one roof on a unique world stage. After more than a decade of attending Tales of the Cocktail, both Tim Herlihy of Lost Irish Whiskey and Leah Doyle CEO of the ARCD Agency, saw the growing presence not just of Irish bars attending the festival but Irish brands too. It gave them the initial inspiration to establish the concept around Irish House and with the support of Daragh Flanagan, the vice president of drinks at Bord Bia, North America, it will be launched this July. Leah details it further by saying, 'Two years ago, Tim and I were standing at an event and looked around and realized how much Irish Talent was in New Orleans, from Irish bar teams in the US like The Dead Rabbit, Bartley Dunnes, Casements to mention a few and the teams over from Ireland like BAR 1661 and Cask - and we decided then we had to bring this event to life and really showcase what modern Irish hospitality is all about. The timing and momentum felt right to combine all Irish efforts in the one setting - and Irish House was born.' Established over 20 years ago with humble beginnings, Tales of the Cocktail has gone on to become the biggest trade conference for the global spirits industry. It's a week-long gala incorporating everything from tastings, seminars, lectures, launches and brand festivities that attracts thousands of trade visitors from every corner of the globe. Stressing the importance of the Irish House's location, Daragh adds, 'Since joining Bord Bia, I set out to elevate our trade education & engagement, particularly in the on-trade, reaching more high-level bartenders across the US & Canada, to spread the good word on all of the amazing modern & innovative Irish drinks producers - Tales of the Cocktail is the perfect platform for this, as the best of the best will all be in attendance!' Bar teams from both the USA and Ireland will be there to mix up and serve some of their best creations made with Irish drinks. They include: The list of participating drinks brands range from well-known multinationals to small independents: In his support of Irish House, co-founder and managing director of the multiple award winning Dead Rabbit shared, 'We've built The Dead Rabbit around a celebration of modern Irish culture, spirits, and hospitality, and Bord Bia has been essential in fostering greater connectivity between Ireland and the States. "The Irish House - and our collaboration with Guinness - represents a first-of-its-kind celebration of Irish culture at Tales, and is the perfect stage to showcase the incredible depth, craftsmanship, and camaraderie that defines just that.' The Irish House takes place on July 24th from 1 to 6pm at 411 Bourbon Street, New Orleans, LA 70130. Admission is free with registration for tickets by clicking here. Follow Irish House on Instagram here.

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