WORLD CUP USA '94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : BUSINESS IS BOOMING

WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : BUSINESS IS BOOMING

By HELENE ELLIOTT

June 30, 1994 12 AM PT

Bar and restaurant owners in Orlando, delighted the Irish team will be returning July 4 to face Holland, are measuring their joy in pints.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, barkeepers estimate they did six times the normal business when the team--and its thirsty fans--were in Orlando last week for a game against Mexico.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.