Minimum alcohol pricing is nigh

I find it actually hilarious tbh. I've been telling family about this legislation for however many years now. But legislation is boring. Sent them all a WhatsApp of the actual prices changes this week and they're all up in arms.

Shows you how much reality people like to understand until reality comes swinging into their face.

Aye, laws and dail debates are boring and dry but when the price is on the cash register almost laughing at them that’s when it sinks in for most folk

The Healy Raes make far more from their convenience stores than their pubs these days, I'd bet the house on it.

I got half price perlenbacher in Lidl today, 50 cent a can, as much as i could carry.

I stood with FF even through the recession, but this is the one for me that breaks the camels back, Nanny state, I will not vote for them after this.

It is utterly wrong, I will drive to the nearest border town and stock up every few months rather than pay the prices I have seen on the papers.

Every other party supported it too,I can't remember such cross party support on any other issue.

On the news this evening, store managers & off licence owners up North telling the Irish reporter that they were ready for the trade.

Anywhere doing deals on Guinness still tonight?

It's not alcohol action Ireland that got these rules implemented. It's the LVA and VFI in order to make home drinking less attractive vs the pubs.

AAI are being used as political patsies to conceal the true motivation and create a veneer of public health policy otherwise this wouldn't have gotten through the EU. This is all about market intervention, nothing more and a sip to publicans who have seen their trade fall significantly as anti drink driving laws and overall cultural shift has occured. In any case the measure will likely fail to arrest the decline in pub trade in the long term, as it's not just price that means people are consuming less within them, because culture towards pubs has changed too. The pub is no longer the centre of the community it once was.

As far as I know cirrhosis of the liver doesn't create a distinction between alcohol consumed in a pub or at home, so a genuine public health measure would be to use excise duty to create the minimum price floor.

In any case, I'm looking forward to the river of alcohol that will flow down the M1 as a result of this.

Its the little things, allways the little things that does the damage in the end

Try online and order to collect tomorrow or get them to deliver. No idea if online stops at 10pm too, as they won't be delivered tonight. but just in case, you have 20 minutes. :D

The opposition parties actually voted for MUP in the Dail.

They would have to do the mother of all flip flops to come out against it now.

My bet is they will do a bit of bleating about the timing of the introduction and cross border trade just to score a few points.

After that they will sit tight keep schtum and hope NI move swiftly.

Alcohol Action Ireland need to be folded up like NPHET and other kill joy or dooms day organisations. Charity organisations should never be funded by the tax payer as that is fraudulant. Like private organisations, charities should remain voluntary and untethered to the tax payer as much as possible. Having our leaders do so is a virtue signal and a grift. Why should we punish the many for the mistakes of the few?

Our country should be run more like a business and less like charity (as is the case with Alcohol Action Ireland) or more recently like a hospital (puppeted by NPHET and their draconian economy crippling measures). Civil liberties and free-market capitalism should never be demonized quite to the degree it is being done especially, in the last 2 years.

It's absolute nonsense when we are so near NI, although I do think alcohol is too cheap here.

You've aimed your ire at the wrong parties. AAI and other health advocates have been ignored for decades. The only reason this is being implemented is because publicans lobbied for it as they felt they were being undercut by supermarket multiples.

The first idea on this front was to ban loss leader alcohol sales, but to my knowledge that was never implemented because the wholesale price of beer is quite low - it's produced with relatively cheap ingredients on an industrial scale. It would not have the desired impact of reducing off-trade. Or rather make buying pints in a pub relatively more attractive price wise

The lobby groups then moved onto MUP, which had to wait for the Scottish law to make its way through Europe iirc.

This BS has been 10+ years in the making. As I said, it's a political gift to publicans who have seen their businesses impacted by other policy measures - notably drink driving policy. However, rather than innovate, the LVA and VFA chose to attack it's potential customers.

I think this will be really interesting where this goes from here. A lot of people are used to their €20 slab and will notice now that it's doubled in cost. It's fairly rare that a policy change causes such stark changes in price - usually it's a couple of percent here and there, which can go unnoticed.

We won't see an uprising over it, but politicians, particularly government ones, will get it on the doors.

I was talking tonight with my elderly father tonight and he has predicted two things, this will drive the population bitterly against the Government and that both FF and FG will suffer heavily for it. This will kill innocent people who drink laced drink now with methanol, he remembers the 1960's and upto to the 1980's that Poitin was a big thing in rural Ireland because drink was so expensive and people were broke. He fully expects a revival of Poitin but when criminals get involved they will cut it with anything from methanol to hand sanitizer. Poitin was made alot in Kerry and Cork in those olden days