Mr Brown, it seems, will have to draw straws and pray that he grasps the right one.

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The place is so iconic that thousands of Irish draw straws every year for the chance to be among the lucky ten or twenty to squeeze 60 feet into the magic chamber whose surrounding walls are inscribed with runic whorls, serpent forms, chevrons, and spiral signs of infinity.

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