the price of a pint set to drop in Galway?

Fuinseog

there is an article in the Tribune saying that if pubs want to stay open and attract customer they should bring down the price of the pint to around two fifty.

can you see this happening?

publicans have the beal bocht, yet if they are overcharging, thats too bad. you do not need to go the pub to have the craic when you can buy four cans for almost the same price as a pint.
apparently the offis and supermarkets are causing serious headaches for publicans.

€3 a pint of guinness in Mc Swiggans. Same price for a glass of wine.

Has been for the past year.

Fuinseog

rarnes1 wrote: »

€3 a pint of guinness in Mc Swiggans. Same price for a glass of wine.

Has been for the past year.

all day, every day?

amiable

rarnes1 wrote: »

€3 a pint of guinness in Mc Swiggans. Same price for a glass of wine.

Has been for the past year.

That's not too bad

Fuinseog

Fuinseog wrote: »

all day, every day?

yep.

And no, I don't work there !

Guinness is decent enough too.

GekkePrutser

Fuinseog wrote: »

apparently the offis and supermarkets are causing serious headaches for publicans.

When has this not been the case then? This is not something new, take-away drinks have always been way cheaper, all across the world too. It's a fact of life and the pubs have added value to justify their higher prices.

As a matter of fact I think the price level in Ireland is extremely high for alcohol. In Holland you buy 24 bottles of 330ml of A-brand beer for around a tenner. Here you're lucky to pick up a sixpack of 500ml cans for that. I know there were some really good offers around christmas but that was an exception, unfortunately

If price is a concern, maybe the pubs could start offering B-brand beers for lower prices. There is a lot more margin to be made on them.

^

Very true, the price of booze in supermarkets is very high compared to many european countries.

If anything they should be dropping further.

bildo

Licencing is the problem. Pubs are getting seriously ripped off for their licences which just isn't sustainable in these times.
But yes, drinking out is just far too expensive and has been for a long time, I just don't drink out anymore at all, I just feel like I'm being ripped off paying around or over a fiver for a pint.

Fuinseog

rarnes1 wrote: »

yep.

And no, I don't work there !

Guinness is decent enough too.

fair play to them then. i am surprised that this is something of a well kept secret.its better to bring the prices instead of waiting for the government to introduce some kind of minimum price.

Fuinseog

bildo wrote: »

Licencing is the problem. Pubs are getting seriously ripped off for their licences which just isn't sustainable in these times.
But yes, drinking out is just far too expensive and has been for a long time, I just don't drink out anymore at all, I just feel like I'm being ripped off paying around or over a fiver for a pint.

I drink guinness cos its cheaper. for some reason a foreign beer has to cost around 5.50. why do we have to pay more for something that is only semi exotic. I mean paulaner is from munich which is not really the other side of the world. does it really cost that much more to import it to galway?

Placebo Effect

Kennedys is 3E a pint too and it's a great pint.....

Friendly enough spot too

inisboffin

rarnes1 wrote: »

€3 a pint of guinness in Mc Swiggans. Same price for a glass of wine.

Has been for the past year.

Is the vino a pour from a large bottle of house, or one of those little bottles? Either way it's a decent deal, but the little
bottles usually have the same amount of sulphites as the big bottle, which makes for a head wallop in the morning, even if you've only had a couple!

Fuinseog

Placebo Effect wrote: »

Kennedys is 3E a pint too and it's a great pint.....

Friendly enough spot too

where is this?

thesandeman

Its 3euro in quite a few places for the last while. You can have a pretty good pub crawl around Galway for 20euro if you avoid the 'fancy' drinks.

dmcg90

Fuinseog wrote: »

where is this?

Near Cuba/Procabs in Eyre Sq. Beside Club K.

JJpedro

Kennedys charge only €3 per pint of guinness, its 3 doors down from Cuba 903.

Staff are very friendly , nice atmosphere.

gaillimhabu

JJpedro wrote: »

Kennedys charge only €3 per pint of guinness, its 3 doors down from Cuba 903.

Staff are very friendly , nice atmosphere.

Kennedys is a ****hole compared to McSwigs say. Full of young scobbies

cheesemaker

bildo wrote: »

Licencing is the problem. Pubs are getting seriously ripped off for their licences which just isn't sustainable in these times.
But yes, drinking out is just far too expensive and has been for a long time, I just don't drink out anymore at all, I just feel like I'm being ripped off paying around or over a fiver for a pint.

You do the cartel that is the VFI have deliberately kept the price of a licence high all by themselves.

Fuinseog

cheesemaker wrote: »

You do the cartel that is the VFI have deliberately kept the price of a licence high all by themselves.

so they cannot blame the euro or teh smoking an for this one

kraggy

How do pub licenses work? How much and is it a one-off payment or an annual thing?

Fionn MacCool

gaillimhabu wrote: »

Kennedys is a ****hole compared to McSwigs say. Full of young scobbies

Couldn't imagine going into Kennedys during the day, great on a night out though.

McSwiggans has a really odd layout.. like 2 tables in a corner, 1 under a TV, couple of stools and a really dark room at the back. Not really anywhere to stand either

I've always figured that the reason drink is such a rip off in Ireland (pubs, clubs and supermarkets) is because the government know we'll still buy it...

Mrs OBumble

I shudder to think what the levels of anti-social behaviour would be like if drink were cheaper, TBH.

Fuinseog

JJpedro wrote: »

Kennedys charge only €3 per pint of guinness, its 3 doors down from Cuba 903.

Staff are very friendly , nice atmosphere.

in the interests of scientific research I ventured into that same drinking emporium, where the pint was indeed 3 and deemed to taste okay.

staff and clientel were neither friendly nor unfriendly. a young persons place to be

Fuinseog

JustMary wrote: »

I shudder to think what the levels of anti-social behaviour would be like if drink were cheaper, TBH.

so if cheap boozes equates anti social behaviour they must have terrible problems in other EU states where the booze is significantly cheaper.

snubbleste

Fuinseog wrote: »

so if cheap boozes equates anti social behaviour they must have terrible problems in other EU states where the booze is significantly cheaper.

They do.

Mrs OBumble

Fuinseog wrote: »

so if cheap boozes equates anti social behaviour they must have terrible problems in other EU states where the booze is significantly cheaper.

Ahh, no. The composition of their population is significantly different. You know full well what I mean.

thesandeman

Actually the opposite might apply. Its the shots/alcopops thats driving the young wans mad.
If spirits were increased and pints reduced they might stick to the pint.
When I was growing up we drank serious amounts of pints and there was rarely any trouble. The worse that would happen is some young lad would puke a load of Guinness over you.

Fuinseog

JustMary wrote: »

Ahh, no. The composition of their population is significantly different. You know full well what I mean.

could the anti social behaviour here not be linked to the fact that there appears to be an absence of police on the streets of Galway.

dec25532

JustMary wrote: »

I shudder to think what the levels of anti-social behaviour would be like if drink were cheaper, TBH.

Can't agree. If drink was cheaper then it means that people might go to pubs to purchase alcohol rather than getting hammered before they go out at all. That argument just doesn't stack up.
The price of drink in pubs has also resulted in more people just lorrying back wine at home which is not the most desirable consequence of dear pub prices.

cheesemaker

JustMary wrote: »

I shudder to think what the levels of anti-social behaviour would be like if drink were cheaper, TBH.

Nonsense, the only reason we have so much ASB is the FF/VFI insist everyone is flushed on to the street at the same time every weekend.

Until last week there were eight nightclubs and four(?) ‘late bars’ in the city.
So if you put that many people on the street at once competing for Taxi's and Kebabs what do think is going to happen ?

Most people in Galway are responsible,
Most people are capable of going to supermac's without fighting over curry chips and most us of don't see why we should be punished for the actions of a tiny minority.

Unless of course these decisions have been influenced by vested interests all the while..........