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The most Alco county in Ireland? :D (stats)

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  • 24-10-2011 2:37pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭


    Had a look at the pub numbers in the Indo today and threw them into a ratio calculator using the wikipedia numbers for population. (Hey I was curious!)

    These are the numbers of pubs per thousand people in each county in 2011. Some pretty big differences across the board, I guess a lot has to do with dispersed populations but interesting nonetheless.

    1) Leitrim 3.54
    2) Roscommon 3.46
    3) Kerry 3.17
    4) Mayo 2.96
    5) Cavan 2.94
    6) Tipperary 2.81
    7) Clare 2.78
    8) Longford 2.50
    9) Sligo 2.35
    10) Donegal 2.30
    11) Killkenny 2.16
    12) Limerick 2.04
    13) Galway 2.02
    14) Westmeath 2.01
    15) Waterford 1.98
    16) Cork 1.94
    17) Carlow 1.88
    18) Louth 1.86
    19) Wexford 1.80
    20) Monaghan 1.80
    21) Offaly 1.73
    22) Laois 1.52
    23) Wicklow 1.15
    24) Meath 1.14
    25) Kildare 0.89
    26) Dublin 0.63


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,191 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    So who's round is it? :cool:


  • Registered Users Posts: 34,049 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Leitrim people are mad for the craic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    I'd be an alcoholic if I lived in Leitrim


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Leitrim people are mad for the craic.
    Nah its just there is nothing else to do but drink in Leitrim. ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    The ratio of tourists to locals has a lot to do with it too. Here in Kilkenny we have sh!tloads of tourists, plus stag parties and hen parties to bate the band. So we rank high.

    As far as I know we have the highest alcohol consumption in Ireland, which in turn has one of the highest of any country in the world.

    I don't drink much myself. I prefer getting my kicks on channel six, but there you go.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Number of pubs =/= boozeheadedness.

    Higher density populations like Dublin and Cork would have large pubs which could hold hundreds of people. More rural areas probably have more pubs with a small capacity.

    It certainly appears that way in the OP.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    I knew Dublin were nothing but a bunch of soft cunts :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭4leto


    What would be interesting is see do these stats correlate to the amount of drunk driving convictions in each county.

    Bet you any money the most convictions still result in Dublin, the lowest on the chart.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    I'm surprised Donegal is so far down the list:confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Madam wrote: »
    I'm surprised Donegal is so far down the list:confused:

    it doesn't include drinking in parks,

    Donegals main social activity

    or houses


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Mongarra


    Is this a "Leinster V The Rest" thing? Only 1 Leinster county in top 10.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    hmmm it seems I should be on the even further western part of Britain.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    danniemcq wrote: »
    it doesn't include drinking in parks,

    Donegals main social activity

    or houses

    You forgot to mention lock in's - or does'nt that happen anymore?:rolleyes:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Madam wrote: »
    I'm surprised Donegal is so far down the list:confused:

    In Donegal they have Sibins in the mountains serving poteen which aren't on the list, if they were they'd probably be no. 1.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    Stinicker wrote: »
    In Donegal they have Sibins in the mountains serving poteen which aren't on the list, if they were they'd probably be no. 1.

    They do? I can't say I've ever been to one but then I am under 100 years of age:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Madam wrote: »
    You forgot to mention lock in's - or does'nt that happen anymore?:rolleyes:

    shhhhh we try not and advertise that fact! attracts to much attention
    Madam wrote: »
    They do? I can't say I've ever been to one but then I am under 100 years of age:)

    Donegal is still one of the major counties for poiteen, a speciality at wakes, weddings,christenings and any other special day like ones ending in Y


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    danniemcq wrote: »
    shhhhh we try not and advertise that fact! attracts to much attention



    Donegal is still one of the major counties for poiteen, a speciality at wakes, weddings,christenings and any other special day like ones ending in Y

    Oh I know you can find some good poiteen up in the hills - in fact my grandad used to make it - it seems he had his regular customers his reputation was so good:) But I had thought it was very rare nowadays to find it unless you can go to some or the remotest places. Besides it was the Shebeen thing I was on about - are the not extinct in Donegal?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭Downlinz


    The Indo's results only includes what they describe as "pubs". Its unclear if that includes more urban establishments like clubs, bars in hotels, places with liquor licenses etc.


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