I do love Irish Breakfast, but learned to love English as well. I had a supervisor who used to make the most amazing concoction: tea with milk and honey. Amazing not only for the lovely flavor, but it's intriguing property of soothing you and making you wide awake at the same time.
I had heard lovely things here about Instant Hots, but we simply didn't have the funds or the room. However, I do wish more people, or more specifically, restaurants, would use them. I find that ordering tea in a restaurant usually means water that is only slightly better than lukewarm.
I went on a trip to Ireland in 2002...now THEY knew how to make tea! My MIL, being used to the not-so-hot American restaurant version, nearly burned herself a number of times because...well, it was actually HOT. Boiling water, not water heated in an empty carafe on the coffee maker. Wow.