PRIDE AND JOY
Meet four members of the Irish LGBTQ+ community who give their take on how you can fly your rainbow flag
Updated: 22:25, 25 Jun 2021
THIS weekend normally would see Dublin painted in rainbow colours as the capital’s Pride parade took over the city.
Floats would travel through the streets, as people gathered for music and merriment in a toast to the LGBTQ+ community.
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People taking part in the Pride Parade in Dublin on Saturday June 30, 2018Credit: PA:Press Association
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Pride supporters enjoying the annual parade in Dublin on June 27, 2015Credit: Getty Images - Getty
But due to the pandemic, the festivities have been cancelled for the second year in a row.
Byron Bay’s Kombucha Brewing Co. Source: supplied.
Kombucha the cure-all magic brew, the ancient Chinese drink, the hipster libation turned possible billion-dollar global industry is going through a transition.
A transition from the inevitable hype over a new product and kombucha brands sprouting up at every corner, to a market consolidation where some Australian brands have already attracted the likes of Coca Cola and big businesses, some are innovating to keep playing the game, and some eventually may not survive.
It’s survival of the fittest.
Except independent small-to-medium kombucha companies say the ‘fittest’ brands, at the end of the day, might be making a product that could be better classified as a ‘kombucha-style’ drink with questionable levels of live bacteria.