Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
If we do not hit our goal we will be forced to close the site.

Current status: https://keepboardsalive.com/

Annual subs are best for most impact. If you are still undecided on going Ad Free - you can also donate using the Paypal Donate option. All contribution helps. Thank you.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.

PJ Carroll & Co

  • 22-08-2013 12:11AM
    #1
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,202 ✭✭✭✭


    Just to settle an argument does anyone know why Carrol's cigarettes (Number 1 and Major) are only available to buy in Ireland?


Comments

  • #2
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    muffler wrote: »
    Just to settle an argument does anyone know why Carrol's cigarettes (Number 1 and Major) are only available to buy in Ireland?

    Pretty Sure they were manufactured In Ireland only, In Dundalk.

    Pretty sure they are owned by BAT now.


  • #3
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    I used to buy Major when I lived in London and found them in a few shops in Liverpool too. Not widely available admittedly but they were there none the less.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #4
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,202 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    I remember from a long number of years ago when I lived for a while in Strabane which is just over the border in N.I. I used get the Major in a local family run shop but the owner was telling me he had to buy them in Donegal as he couldnt get them from the wholesalers in N.I.

    Probably about 90% of shops in NI. wouldnt sell them and the other 10% would be shops located close to the border. I wasn't aware that they were sold in in Liverpool and London.

    I also know that several if not all duty free shops abroad never stock them.

    They are difficult to get outside of Ireland and I thought it had something to do perhaps with some form of exporting license whereas a friend of mine thinks that the company never pushed the marketing on foreign lands


Advertisement