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Pubs open good Friday shows TDs in Vintners pockets

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  • 25-01-2018 10:15pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭


    Why are people so short sighted? they think they have won some kind of victory today?

    The same corrupt lying scum that are behind this move want to more than double the price of a few beers at home in the name of saving us from binge drinking.

    I am sure the VFI (Vintners Federation of Ireland) will make sure none of their customers drink drive or consume more then four drinks on good Friday to prevent binge drinking.

    A plague on their business they get the law changed to help their business and yet they also want a change in the law to cripple their competitors in the name of preventing binge drinking.

    If these people are so worried about binge drinking why did they not try and get in the family business on Good Fridays with their food?

    Afterall we are told it's a social thing what could be more social than a nice family day?;):D:rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Wonder how the Healy Rae’s voted


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    This will turn into another incredibly messy day. A new paddy’s day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭falinn merking


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Wonder how the Healy Rae’s voted

    Yes I wonder?:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,025 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Good day for a boycott


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Good day for a boycott

    Will be from the high stool.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭falinn merking


    Good day for a boycott

    Do people have the intelligence on the attention span I doubt it.:(

    However I really hope I am wrong.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057834196


    It won't be compulsory to drink on Good Friday. You'll be grand.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Finally, Irish Rail loose their government provided monopoly :D







    Real opinion......Its a bad day when a bad decision was made :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭falinn merking


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057834196


    It won't be compulsory to drink on Good Friday. You'll be grand.

    I always have a drink on good Friday I get it in the supermarket on thursday.
    The VFI (Vintners Federation of Ireland) don't think I should be allowed do this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    This will turn into another incredibly messy day. A new paddy’s day.

    I wish, I will be working me socks off like any other Friday!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 25,712 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    This will turn into another incredibly messy day. A new paddy’s day.


    It won't.

    Most people in most other industries have to work, given that it's not a public holiday.


  • Registered Users Posts: 227 ✭✭boreder


    So you'd rather be told to NOT do something indirectly by the Christian church, than be given the choice to do it or not of your own free will?

    That's a weird perspective to have. Take off the tin foil hat.

    It's just another Friday on the calendar now.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,303 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    This will turn into another incredibly messy day. A new paddy’s day.

    It isn't a bank holiday for a start.


  • Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    This will turn into another incredibly messy day. A new paddy’s day.

    How? Must people I know work on it, and most businesses are open. Its a church holiday, not a public holiday.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭falinn merking


    boreder wrote: »
    So you'd rather be told to NOT do something indirectly by the Christian church, than be given the choice to do it or not of your own free will?

    That's a weird perspective to have. Take off the tin foil hat.

    It's just another Friday on the calendar now.


    So you would rather have the VFI (Vintners Federation of Ireland) tell you can't buy a few beers and a fair price in your local supermarket?

    So rant about the church and not being involved in the laws of the land.
    Meanwhile the VFI (Vintners Federation of Ireland) will tell us when and where we can drink and how much me must pay.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sue Pa Key Pa


    I always have a drink on good Friday I get it in the supermarket on thursday.
    The VFI (Vintners Federation of Ireland) don't think I should be allowed do this.

    So, we are not allowed drink at home now in return for passing this legislation? Basters slipped that one in


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    You have to be one sad bastard to latch onto this as a reason to go out and get drunk on that particular day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭falinn merking


    So, we are not allowed drink at home now in return for passing this legislation? Basters slipped that one in

    Yes the very same people who lobbied for this are behind the move to mad expensive drink at home.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    So you would rather have the VFI (Vintners Federation of Ireland) tell you can't buy a few beers and a fair price in your local supermarket?

    .

    You are ranting about one issue under the heading of another.

    What is the topic?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭falinn merking


    You are ranting about one issue under the heading of another.

    What is the topic?

    The topic is quite clear the VFI (Vintners Federation of Ireland) got their way today they lobbied for this.
    More relaxed alcohol laws for their business.
    They have also lobbied for a law to destroy their competitors.

    If you can't understand the topic?:confused:

    Edit do you have any link to the VFI (Vintners Federation of Ireland)?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    I always have a drink on good Friday I get it in the supermarket on thursday.
    The VFI (Vintners Federation of Ireland) don't think I should be allowed do this.

    Incredibly, you can still do it!


  • Registered Users Posts: 227 ✭✭boreder


    So you would rather have the VFI (Vintners Federation of Ireland) tell you can't buy a few beers and a fair price in your local supermarket?

    So rant about the church and not being involved in the laws of the land.
    Meanwhile the scummy lying corrupt VFI (Vintners Federation of Ireland) will tells up when and where we can drink and how much me must pay.

    I'm not sure why you are going on about supermarkets.

    The topic of today: I can decide if I buy a beer on Good Friday or not. The church no longer make the decision for me. That is a good thing.


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Biggest casualty here is the generation of kids who will never know the lunacy of a Good Friday house party.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭falinn merking


    boreder wrote: »
    I'm not sure why you are going on about supermarkets.

    The topic of today: I can decide if I buy a beer on Good Friday or not. The church no longer make the decision for me. That is a good thing.

    But your happy for the VFI (Vintners Federation of Ireland) to set the price of drinks that are not purchased in their grubby watering holes?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    How? Must people I know work on it, and most businesses are open. Its a church holiday, not a public holiday.

    Lots of people are off. The crowd that used to drink at home will now take to the pubs.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,303 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    But your happy for the VFI (Vintners Federation of Ireland) to set the price of drinks that are not purchased in their grubby watering holes?

    I'm lost


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    I'll be having a compulsory sweaty celebration ****


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭falinn merking


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    I'm lost


    Your a moderator and have almost 11'000 posts and you have been a member over ten years and you are unaware the VFI are behind the lobbying to cripple home drink sales?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Vex Willems


    Your a moderator and have almost 11'000 posts and you have been a member over ten years and you are unaware the VFI are behind the lobbying to cripple home drink sales?

    and what has that got to do with the price of drink? :confused:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 455 ✭✭jasper100


    They have also lobbied for a law to destroy their competitors.

    Of course that’s absolutely untrue. Tesco and Dunne’s etc. are not competitors of pubs.

    In reality they are cutting the price of alcohol as loss leaders to entice people into their stores.

    I would think they are delighted that the price of booze will have to go up, fatter margins for them too.

    I am not aware of any supermarket lobbying against the minimum unit price, the only issue they had seems to revolve about the cost of creating segregated areas in their stores for booze.


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