With its thick creamy head and distinct taste, Guinness is the most successful drink of our nation. Many say that the black stuff is full of "Iron" and makes you stronger, while others just drink it to simply get drunk. After my teen years of Cider and Alco pop’s I finally came around to my senses, even though it took me many years to get used to the taste.

Recently I accepted a challenge that requires I suit-up, Barney Stinson style, for the next 24 nights out on the town. I've decided to use the opportunity to analyze the differences in peoples perceptions between casual and formal socialisers. Here's how its going.

• This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals behind rigged market capitalism from intellectual property rights to cooked books. They also expose how shenanigans and gimmicks are the new words for fraud. Keiser talks to bestselling author, former economist at the Irish Central Bank, and former UBS banker David McWilliams about Irelands banking crisis and NAMA. McWilliams also takes questions from viewers such as yours truly.....

I have always had a problem with the word, 'appalling' because when pronounced, it bares my name in its phonetics. Throughout my school days I would standby while my teachers reined down abuse on students with sloppy homework, using my name as the central grounding for the portrayal of their emotions felt when they were presented with the students sloppy 9-times-tables. We all know how difficult those times-tables were; I found them so difficult that my auntie had to reference American football team, the 49er's, just so I could avoid an appalling-centric battering from my saliva-spluttering teacher the following morning when he lined us up one by one for an onslaught. Still to this day, however, I know that seven sevens is most certainly 49!