Alcohol consumption gone hugely down

bigpink

Is 2019 the year we see the huge decline of alcohol consumption even quiet social pints seems to be dying
Was out with visitors tonight was driving so on coffee and minerals the city(Limerick) was dead

Ten of Swords

bigpink wrote: »

Is 2019 the year we see the huge decline of alcohol consumption

No

BuzzMcdonnell

Don’t tell the students, it’ll drive them to drink.

pleas advice

thats limerick citay

KungPao

I’m doing my bit to keep the average up.




#imdoingmybittokeeptheaverageup

freshpopcorn

Coke is the thing on AH mod nights out!

Don't forget the hookers!

pleas advice

Big Words

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Coke is the thing on AH mod nights out!

Don't forget the hookers!

It is of course.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

It's been going down for a while now, but not hugely. Apparently, this is why we need minimum alcohol pricing.

Big Words

The things they do with empty wine bottles.

greencap

Its to do with social media and the realization that everyone else except you has a six pack and a party house in Spain where they rub tanned six packs with models.

They drink protein shakes, while you drink beer. Thats the key difference.

Sam Quentin

All the Alcos are at home,. just having a 'WEE' glass of wine, while they cook dinner,eat dinner,clean up after dinner, watch quare city etc etc..... That 'glass' of wine goes a lonnnnng way :-))

Your Face

Underpants gnome logic.

SeaFields

I wouldn't be using a Monday night as a barometer for your theory op

Giveaway

Consumption is not down. Increase in off licence sales. While less money is spent on drink, volume of alcohol drank has increased. Ie rip off pub/club prices vs supermarket sales. Also recreational drug use. Cannabis is massively more popular but being ilicit is not being picked up by the stats

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A major study published last year found that Irish drinking patterns are comparable to other European countries. Irish women have the seventh highest level of average daily drinks in the world, but Irish men were not in the top 10.

The highest prevalence of male drinkers was in Denmark, Norway, Germany and Argentina, Poland and France. For women, it was in Denmark, Norway, Germany and Argentina.

Reati

pleas advice wrote: »

Haven’t had coke and a Galway hooker in years!

jimgoose

Well I personally drink four thousand litres of beer per capita. EVERY capita.

Consumption in pubs/clubs is down right enough, hardly surprising given the price of it. As alluded to upthread, consumption at home is way up, via off-licenses and supermarkets. Only yesterday I was introduced to the word "prinks", which made me want to kick somebody. I'm told it is a contraction of "pre-drinks", i.e. chungwans and/or chungfellits gathering at a house to get sloshed before going out.

jobless

the price of pints in dublin, im not surprised

Feisar

Blackstone108 wrote: »

Is alcohol any more expensive today than 5 or 10 years ago when adjusted for inflation?

No I don't think so, however people are copping on to the cost of the pub scene.

Red_Wake

There's a direct correlation between the fall in pints consumption and the rise of mental illness.

Think about it sheeple.

Woke Hogan

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Coke is the thing on AH mod nights out!

Don't forget the hookers!

Yuck.

topper75

bigpink wrote: »

Is 2019 the year we see the huge decline of alcohol consumption even quiet social pints seems to be dying
Was out with visitors tonight was driving so on coffee and minerals the city(Limerick) was dead

Sounds like it is your first night out midweek in Limerick since 2007.

JohnnyFlash

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Yuck.

You ok, Hogan?

Woke Hogan

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

You ok, Hogan?

I'm a relatively new user to this site but it was recommended to me by a friend of mine last year. He gave me a word of warning before I created my account though, urging me to ignore references to "hamsters running the servers," "mod coke and hooker parties" and Ataris. That was the first of such references I have seen and it made me feel palpably ill.

jimgoose

Woke Hogan wrote: »

..."mod coke and hooker parties"...

I don't know much about coke and hookers - I've got geebags and hairy crack, if that's any good to you Chief?

kunst nugget

Red_Wake wrote: »

There's a direct correlation between the fall in pints consumption and the rise of mental illness.

Think about it sheeple.

People stop self-medicating with alcohol and actually try and sort out their mental health issues? Wasters the lot of them and no craic at all...

listermint

Giveaway wrote: »

Consumption is not down. Increase in off licence sales. While less money is spent on drink, volume of alcohol drank has increased. Ie rip off pub/club prices vs supermarket sales. Also recreational drug use. Cannabis is massively more popular but being ilicit is not being picked up by the stats

But it is down. And has been year on year for nearly close to ten years

087brain21

Wait till the sun hits us again (hopeful thinking) we wont be long seeing the places fill up again

kunst nugget

Giveaway wrote: »

Consumption is not down. Increase in off licence sales. While less money is spent on drink, volume of alcohol drank has increased. Ie rip off pub/club prices vs supermarket sales. Also recreational drug use. Cannabis is massively more popular but being ilicit is not being picked up by the stats

Where are you getting that from? From most articles I can see online, consumption in Ireland has fallen by about 18% in the last decade and teenagers in Ireland have some of the lowest drinking rates in Europe.

Cannabis is going to become more an issue imo with most of what is sold now being twice the strength of what is on the market a decade or two ago. Back then, it was usually crappy hash you were getting your hands on but any of the weed I've smoked recently absolutely blows the head off of you.

JohnnyFlash

kunst nugget wrote: »

Where are you getting that from? From most articles I can see online, consumption in Ireland has fallen by about 18% in the last decade and teenagers in Ireland have some of the lowest drinking rates in Europe.

Cannabis is going to become more an issue imo with most of what is sold now being twice the strength of what is on the market a decade or two ago. Back then, it was usually crappy hash you were getting your hands on but any of the weed I've smoked recently absolutely blows the head off of you.

Professor Jim Lucey, head of St Patrick’s Hospital, and Professor of Psychiatry in TCD, says cannabis is causing absolutely devastation in some communities - young men barely in their 20’s presenting with profoundly life changing levels of psychosis. It’s reputation as some harmless drug needs to be carefully examined. It ruins lives.

kunst nugget

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Professor Jim Lucey, head of St Patrick’s Hospital, and Professor of Psychiatry in TCD, says cannabis is causing absolutely devastation in some communities - young men barely in their 20’s presenting with profoundly life changing levels of psychosis. It’s reputation as some harmless drug needs to be carefully examined. It ruins lives.

I don't know if my head would have survived my early twenties if I was smoking what's out and about now.



I would favour legalisation and a grading system for strength - at least you'd know what you're getting.

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JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Professor Jim Lucey, head of St Patrick’s Hospital, and Professor of Psychiatry in TCD, says cannabis is causing absolutely devastation in some communities - young men barely in their 20’s presenting with profoundly life changing levels of psychosis. It’s reputation as some harmless drug needs to be carefully examined. It ruins lives.

Give over, no community is being devastated by cannabis

SEPT 23 1989

why have the hippies slowly invaded a thread about creamy pints?

dundalkfc10

A good % of people here in Dundalk buy our drink, shopping, Oil etc over the border (im sure Monaghan, Cavan, Leitirim, Donegal etc is the same)

They dont have a clue what we drink!

VinLieger

Giveaway wrote: »

Consumption is not down. Increase in off licence sales. While less money is spent on drink, volume of alcohol drank has increased. Ie rip off pub/club prices vs supermarket sales. Also recreational drug use. Cannabis is massively more popular but being ilicit is not being picked up by the stats

Consumption is absolutely down year over year for over a decade, stop posting about something you obviously have no clue about.

Low cost selling which started and became prevalent during the same period did not increase consumption as claimed proving the main reason for minimum unit pricing was a lie pushed by the vintners

Mister Vain

The young lads are more interested in drinking protein shakes these days.

gctest50

Surely part of it is due to the massive exit :

odyssey06

gctest50 wrote: »

Surely part of it is due to the massive exit :

Might be balanced out by the increasing tourist numbers... who like visiting the guinness storehouse and distillery visitor centres.

BlackandGreen

a good joint beats a pint any day.

but i mean...i'd be fairly open to having both.

joint and a guinness.

good ****.

Amirani

Trevor Fit Nun wrote: »

Give over, no community is being devastated by cannabis

Yeah, that's excessive. It does have quite a profound negative impact on a not unsubstantial number of users.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Professor Jim Lucey, head of St Patrick’s Hospital, and Professor of Psychiatry in TCD, says cannabis is causing absolutely devastation in some communities - young men barely in their 20’s presenting with profoundly life changing levels of psychosis. It’s reputation as some harmless drug needs to be carefully examined. It ruins lives.

All drugs, when abused, ruin lives. Legal or otherwise.

Beyond that, Prof Lucey is being more than a tad hyperbolic - if someone said alcohol was causing absolute devastation in some communites, they'd be laughed at and yet it's been proven to be more addictive and harmful.

Ipso

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Professor Jim Lucey, head of St Patrick’s Hospital, and Professor of Psychiatry in TCD, says cannabis is causing absolutely devastation in some communities - young men barely in their 20’s presenting with profoundly life changing levels of psychosis. It’s reputation as some harmless drug needs to be carefully examined. It ruins lives.

Stop that, cannabis is a super drug.

Gimme A Pound

bigpink wrote: »

Is 2019 the year we see the huge decline of alcohol consumption even quiet social pints seems to be dying
Was out with visitors tonight was driving so on coffee and minerals the city(Limerick) was dead

Wouldn't any cold Monday night be dead?

satguy

€5.10 for a pint of Carlsberg in my local pub.. ( Portlaoise ).
My Wife will also drink a pint of Carlsberg, so that is €10.20 per round, If we ramble over on Fri or Sat night and have 6 Pints it adds up. ( €61.20 )

Is 6 pints enough ? (not really) ,, Then factor in a portion of curry chips as we have to pass the chipper to get home.

Big Words

satguy wrote: »

€5.10 for a pint of Carlsberg in my local pub.. ( Portlaoise ).
My Wife will also drink a pint of Carlsberg, so that is €10.20 per round, If we ramble over on Fri or Sat night and have 6 Pints it adds up. ( €61.20 )

Is 6 pints enough ? (not really) ,, Then factor in a portion of curry chips as we have to pass the chipper to get home.

Will ye ride with mad after a gallon of carlsberg and pomme frites?

bigpink

Khalid Ambitious Garlic wrote: »

Wouldn't any cold Monday night be dead?

It would but in a city centre surely a bit of life even social slow pints not mad sessions

PTH2009

You need too be a bit pissed or buzzed sitting in an almost empty pub during a week night. It's so misrible but it can be relaxing but so boring

Pub prices are the problem, over €5 in some places for a pint of Carlsberg but you could go to the offy and get a 6/8 pack for €10/€12

Then we have these hipster micro brewery pubs which some have no life in and you can't talk too loud/sing etc

professore

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I'm a relatively new user to this site but it was recommended to me by a friend of mine last year. He gave me a word of warning before I created my account though, urging me to ignore references to "hamsters running the servers," "mod coke and hooker parties" and Ataris. That was the first of such references I have seen and it made me feel palpably ill.

Yore Ma!

professore

satguy wrote: »

€5.10 for a pint of Carlsberg in my local pub.. ( Portlaoise ).
My Wife will also drink a pint of Carlsberg, so that is €10.20 per round, If we ramble over on Fri or Sat night and have 6 Pints it adds up. ( €61.20 )

Is 6 pints enough ? (not really) ,, Then factor in a portion of curry chips as we have to pass the chipper to get home.

I'm imagining Bridget and Eamon for some reason