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why are there no J D Wetherspoon pubs in ROI?

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    #1412
    mailforkev
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭mailforkev


    Popped into The a Forty Foot in Dun Laoghaire for a look on Sunday afternoon, they've done a pretty nice redevelopment to be honest.

    And it was absolutely packed. Two large floors completely full.

    We didn't end up staying as it was so busy there was an hours wait for food.

    The VFI are a shower of hypocritical dicks so I'm glad other pubs might have to try and compete for a change.


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    #1413
    VinLieger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,741 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    AndonHandon wrote: »
    So it's just a coincidence then.

    Yes Roisin Shortall was harping on about it for her entire time as junior minister for health and Alex White took up that crusade after she left the Labour party and took over from her in that position back in June 2012 this is not something new that has popped up due to JD, also FF are the publicans party not FG or Labour


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    #1414
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    http://www.thejournal.ie/poll-drink-too-cheap-1863544-Jan2015/
    Alcohol Action Ireland is calling for Minimum Unit Pricing to be introduced immediately.

    Meanwhile, the Sunday Independent reports that Fine Gael TD Mary Mitchell O’Connor said that such cheap pub prices should be outlawed adding that it’s ‘putting lives at risk’.

    I notice locally that these 'at risk drinkers' prefer to use local benches to partake in their drinking,they wouldn't be allowed stand outside a pub let alone go into it.It wouldn't matter if the pints were €1 or €100 they wouldn't be in the establishments.
    Another case of influence from the VFI on politicians methinks.

    How many here that drink in JD's have seen people drinking themselves into a stupor day after day? None I bet,you're more likely to see drunken messiness in Temple Bar where a pint is about double the price or more in some cases.


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    #1415
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,615 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Minimum pricing in pubs is nothing more than Fine Gaels brand of corporate welfare


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    #1416
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,159 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    If a minimum price really is supposed to be for health reasons, then the minimum price per unit will be the same whether in a supermarket, conventional offie or in a pub

    If the minimum price is different for different types of outlet, and/or different types of drink, well you can draw your own conclusions there.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #1417
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    JD Wetherspoon expanding to The Great Wood, in De Blanch on June 23rd, then The Old Borough, Swords on July 21st and spreading cheap pints to The Linen Weaver, Cork on September 1st


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    #1418
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    they could get prince charles to open one


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    #1419
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Excellent bump! Reminds me to get a night out arranged in the Three Tun Tavern.


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    #1420
    whatismyname
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    I live in the UK, travel for work and love my Wetherspoons. Cheap and cheerful, usually tasty, know what I'm getting, good club deals, wifi and usually manage to find a seat with a socket beside it when needed.


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    #1421
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    They've got a place bought on Abbey St (Dublin) too. And it's looking like Hanlons (of Hanlons cross fame) has been bought by them too. Whooooop


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    #1422
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,233 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    Excellent bump! Reminds me to get a night out arranged in the Three Tun Tavern.

    It's actually a really nice pub inside.


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    #1423
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Cienciano wrote: »
    It's actually a really nice pub inside.

    Oh here, I know - I was not been sarcastic! Had a couple of great nights in there already this year....wish i lived closer to it!


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    #1424
    Just a little Samba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Just a little Samba


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    Oh here, I know - I was not been sarcastic! Had a couple of great nights in there already this year....wish i lived closer to it!

    I was visiting the school of applied social science in UCD this year for a thingy and afterwards someone suggested drinks, to which several of the department bods responded "to spoons it is so" and all got excited.

    Tisn't just the riff raff going there either!


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    #1425
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Gotta say I avoid them like the plague. All the patrons I've seen in them places are ugly as f*ck. I'm not ending up like that by consuming whatever they're selling there. Had a dinner there once and a beer or two, never again. Except that time I went again just to be sure then I said never again again.


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    #1426
    Just a little Samba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Just a little Samba


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    Gotta say I avoid them like the plague. All the patrons I've seen in them places are ugly as f*ck. I'm not ending up like that by consuming whatever they're selling there. Had a dinner there once and a beer or two, never again. Except that time I went again just to be sure then I said never again again.

    You, generally, seem to be far out of touch with reality, so I doubt many people take your analysis too seriously.


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    #1427
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Just a little Samba wrote: »
    You, generally seem to be far out touch with reality so I doubt many people take your analysis too seriously.

    Your loss.


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    #1428
    Tony Beetroot
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    Wetherspoons would be in the same league as ryanair.


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    #1429
    Just a little Samba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Just a little Samba


    Tony Beetroot wrote: »
    Wetherspoons would be in the same league as ryanair.

    Providing choice and competition for prices?

    That can only be a good thing.


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    #1430
    Tony Beetroot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 640 ✭✭✭Tony Beetroot


    Yes of course.


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    #1431
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,378 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    Gotta say I avoid them like the plague. All the patrons I've seen in them places are ugly as f*ck.
    Maybe you were just drinking the weaker beers?


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    #1432
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    The Irish ones do seem to be more upmarket then the UK ones I have been to. Wish one would open nearer me.


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    #1433
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,856 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Tony Beetroot wrote: »
    Wetherspoons would be in the same league as ryanair.

    The decent steak and many pints I had with four friends in one last Friday night, while enjoying a good atmosphere and very nice eye candy, tells me that I am very firmly in the Ryanair demographic

    Bombay sapphire and tonic, 2 x glasses pinot grigio, 1 pint cider, 1 pint ale - €17.20. Sold.


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    #1434
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Real ale festival on at the moment. Looks like some decent supping from the flyer.


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    #1435
    LDN_Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    The Irish ones do seem to be more upmarket then the UK ones I have been to. Wish one would open nearer me.

    They vary wildly in ambience and atmosphere in England. So for example, the one Greenwich is quite nice whereas the one in Lewisham is a kip.

    Haven't been in a few years and I hear Lewisham has gentrified a lot in the last few years so that may be an outdated assessment.


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    #1436
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    LDN_Irish wrote: »
    the one Greenwich is quite nice whereas the one in Lewisham is a kip..

    Imagine that :pac:


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    #1437
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,119 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    keano_afc wrote: »
    Real ale festival on at the moment. Looks like some decent supping from the flyer.


    You mean the sale on bottles/cans this week, all at 1.95.

    See here:

    https://www.facebook.com/TheThreeTunTavern/photos/a.732572413448708.1073741828.723713404334609/915258715180076/?type=1&theater


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    #1438
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,119 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    https://www.facebook.com/TheThreeTunTavern/photos/a.732572413448708.1073741828.723713404334609/915258715180076/?type=1&theater


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    #1439
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,119 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    First two opened in 2014.
    Three more to open during 2015.

    And five more sites purchased / confirmed.


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    #1440
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    The Irish ones do seem to be more upmarket then the UK ones I have been to. Wish one would open nearer me.
    They seem to have a few different models in the UK. They have their cheap drink holes, ones that are mainly for a lunch crowd, more upmarket looking ones and ones that are in preserve historically significant pubs.

    They do make some effort to have the pub fit the clientele and the area.


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    #1441
    anncoates
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    Having two outlets in Dublin city centre will be excellent as the current two are a bit out of the way for a lot of people.

    The building they are linked with in Abbey Street should make a very nice space and will be a welcome boost to that part of town which is a bit dead and shabby.


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