Oh ok. I get that I have been on that side far more often than being able to afford to fk about.
Im more thinking about people who are now boasting about putting substantial time and logistics into getting some cheap cans from the UK.
My point was that less well off people don't have the option to travel to save money.
They have to pay more for being poor.
I actually have no car. If your biggest problem is you need to take the train on what could be 100e and 12 hours train to get to Belfast or wasting your holidays on ferries for cheap cans then I suggest reevaluate your life because the problem is not the MUP
At least you have the free choice to decide where you go.
People who have no car or can't afford the train fare are stuck having to pay MUP inflated prices.
I think the dole is going up by €5 per week. A male on the HSE low risk limit who drinks cheaper stuff faces a rise of nearly €500 per year for those 17 units.
Heavy drinkers will face multiples of that, but sure who cares about them. But they kept saying it will be barely noticeable to those on safe limits, which is lies and they were well aware of this, as they had multiple campaign ads saying stuff like "did you know a man can buy his weekly allowance for €8.xx" but always neglected to add "this will go up to €17"
If calculating just leave out the decimals (included 0.789) and drop any zeroes in any of the figures at the end.
So 700ml 37.5% vodka becomes
7x375x789=2071125
or a case of big 538ml guinness cans
24x538x42x789=42787785...
It should be pretty obvious where the decimal should go.
The Irish airports are doing well as Great Britain has a duty free allowance that's much more generous than the EU's. For instance, you can bring four litres of spirits into GB duty free but only one litre into the EU.
Just as well we're not France or Germany so.
I hate riots.
Ide rather go to the place I want to see and spend the extra on the few cans and not waste my time going up to Newry or wherever. Ive been on that train to Belfast and even if it was free it wouldnt be worth the time spent
If this happened in France or Germany there would be riots.
Lidl Cabra East. I was back in there today and I looked in the drinks section but it wasn't immediately obvious to me whether they've updated the displays, all still seemed pretty cheap to me.
It doesn't have to be 'just' for that reason. It can influence where people go when they are going away.
And if you're planning a day trip from Dublin, head up to Calingford by car, have some lunch, home via Newry with a full boot...
Or Belfast by train (free for OAPs!) and come back with some shopping.
I understand people in the border counties but anyone driving from Munster up to Ulster or booking ferries and flights just to pick up some slabs has a fkn problem
They already are.. I traveled on Stena last year. The duty free had a shjt selection, but they were prompting it . ( This was during lockdown so many wouldn't have seen it)
Also, cork airport, which doesn't have many non EU flights, have seen their sales rocket with flights to the UK.
Watch the big demand for €10 UK flights.
I really think they have shot themselves in the foot with Mup.
Stena already have a portakabin offo in Holyhead (they own the port)
Which Lidl was that, asking for a friend?
I was aware that mup was in the pipeline, and I knew that the Irish will say nothing until it's too late.
Most of my spirits aren't affected by mup, but the lack of cheap slabs for the summer BBQs and Xmas parties will be a pain.
Won't be long before Stena and Irish Ferries are marketing the booze cruises again either!
The 11 people, and counting, that thanked Beer Nut's post appear to disagree with this. I thought the post made absolute sense - MUP is not a new concept at all but very few people took any notice of it until now!
I reckon, it'll cost me €100 on fuel and tolls to do a return trip to Newry.
If I save €20 on every slab, I only need to get 5 to break even, everything else is a saving.
I probably go up once or twice a year anyway.
Is it possible to buy 500ml slabs in Newry, I've only ever bought wine and spirits., And online (Sainsbury's) a lot of stuff seems to be 440ml.
I wonder if cooking wine will return to the shelves... would that avoid MUP... I would have just used a €5 bottle of something robust.
People who live in dictatorships or actual nanny states must think we are an awful shower of soft first world wasters when they hear people cry and whinge "nanny state" cause a can is going up to €1.70
Cheers. I was being a bit tongue in cheek😜
Someone posted a link to this minimum price calculator above:
https://www.irishwinereviews.ie/minimum-unit-pricing-calculator
Not that it made any difference but I remember writing to my TDs 4 or 5 years ago on this telling them I'd never vote for them again if this ever went through, I'm pretty sure they all responded saying blah blah it's for your own good. I would never vote for any of them anyway but still, let the f**kers know this is going too far.
I went down to Lidl last night and picked up a few boxes of Miller (18 x 330ml) for €12, Handy to have if people pop over. Had a look in Tesco afterwards and Carlsberg (20 x 300ml) was €23, so that looks like the new pricing applied there. Sorry I didnt buy a few more now
Generally go up north at least once/twice a year, a guess i'll be filling my boot up with beer when i do go up.
I know the whole thing is a load of b****x, but the timing is crazy. Introducing it during a pandemic when hosptatility is esentially closed and at a the time of year when a lot of people are broke at already really low ebb mentally.
I did a shop in Lidl yesterday and I was wondering did they go a day early also, as there was a guy paying ahead of me and he was involved in a debate with the till operator about his receipt and the cost of his cans. I'm not saying this to insult him, just stating facts, but he looked like the type of person that minimum alcohol pricing was intended to affect - he was dishevelled, red eyes, hands shaking, I think fair to suspect he had a drink problem. I don't know whether the till operator was telling him that the cost would be going up for tomorrow, or they had already been put up, but either way the guy looked a bit poleaxed.
The next time he does his shop I would suspect that he will spend less on food and other items and his beer purchases will be unchanged, but I hope the policy advisers / healthcare experts are right, and we're all wrong.
Yeah I'm sure I could have stopped it.
Absolutely idiotic post.
The dole is being increased anyway which cancels out the extra cost for them slab drinkers,
Its a pretty big deal because it’s yet another nanny state intrusion. No worries anyway - they will get a lesson soon enough when the black market starts and cross border shopping jumps by 200%. Same thing happened with the fags - keep bumping the price to obscene levels over the average and people will just buy from elsewhere, I can’t tell you the last time I bought a pack of tobacco that gave any money to the government ;)
Wishy washy notions like this sound great on paper, reality is very different.
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