Booze deals [Megathread #2]

Absolutely, I'm in Cork and I'd definitely go up once or twice a year and stock up. As others have said, I would also do some other shopping up there and as a result, other non-drink related enterprises down south will suffer. Even from cork its an easy 3.5 hour drive up the motorway and a nice day out or overnight trip.

12 pack cans were 10 euro in my local centra before the new legislation. I had a look yesterday and they were now 24 euro.

L'autrex? You've just given your location and age away 🙂🙂🙂

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/alcohol-price-hike-slammed-failed-22641235?fbclid=IwAR0DwtCX0O_Ir_VOt2LT1hvZbfEmVc2orKEFcdoS12yyCRjtNMLnPG7XekU

Only option was MUP?! what about excise, which I think is what the scots were mainly taken to court for. The EU supposedly say the only way min pricing come in is if it cannot be done via tax or some other means. There is this ridiculous notion that supermarkets will absorb any excise hike thrown at them. A bottle vodka has gone from what I think was €12 as the cheapest to €20.71. For anybody to think they will just aborb the ADDITIONAL €8.71 excise is ludicrous, as they are probably already selling at a substantial loss. If they did bizarrely start paying huge excise then another law could be brought in, to stop below cost selling and carefully word it to close any existing loopholes that were in the last law (I think a supermarket could buy say guinness really cheap from the brewry and they brewry effectively got the money back by overcharging for other beer, so on the books it is not below cost).

We are told drinkers will not even notice the price hike, so the increase of €8.71 on all bottles of 37.5% 700ml spirits should be a non issue. If the poorest of the poor who stick to their low risk 17 units per week will not notice it, then the wealthier men drinking high price whiskey will most certainly barely notice the bottle going from 60 to 68.71. And the government gets the much needed tax instead of the supermarkets, a massive increase in tax as everybody pays, pubgoers too (who will also barely notice the increase right?). If anything it should not simply be an excise hike, it should be a combined vat and excise increase, so those wealthy people buying the €60 whiskey face a FAR higher price hike than €8.71, if their actual aim is to disuade all people of varied income by a similar amount. Like how speeding fines in some countries are based on a % of your salary.

Traditionally we have always used excise, as have most countries, spirits are taxed way higher per unit in most places, presumbaly as they are more damaging. Spirits have not gone up too much now so the kids who were drinking 4% galahad will see it more than double in price, but see smirnoff for about the same as usual prices in January, and other "non offer" times of year. As you get more of a drunken effect per unit from higher % alcohol the kids and alcos will switch to spirits and strong wine -which happened in scotland, buckfast sales soared. It is the obvious choice for those who are lowest on money whos goal is the highest blood alcohol level they can get for a given amount of money. I never heard of a kid getting their stomach pumped drinking 3.5-4% beer, I expect to hear of more incidents when they switch to what has now effectively become the most potent drink per euro.

The supervalu post office on the dublin road that heads down to the quays is a good collection point. When ordering on amazon select a newry post code for the click/collect address and it will give you few collection options. Not always cheaper than the supermarkets in the north but amazon often sell hard to get brands.

I never really got that. A long drive to save few pounds , understand doing a huge shop can make worthwhile. My cross border drinking was mostly confined to good Fridays. The best piss up of the year

Lidl breaks have B&B for £37pps in Belfast Holiday Inn Express for Sat 22nd January.Could be useful for anyone planning to do a booze trip and an overnight stay.

Did you read the article? There was no criticism of Mup. He criticised the stupid and ridiculous labeling regulations that will say in tiny print that alcohol may cause cancer. (so can toast)

He also rightly criticises the advertising regulations near schools and creches.

But he does not in any way criticise mup, if anything he gives it a guarded welcome.

Tuborg still 4 cans for 5 euro in my offo, If your looking for a tray of bud cans for example, try getting 2 12 packs, works out cheaper.

I have often driven Dublin to Newcastle to spend the day in the mourne mountains. I used to think I would stop off in newry on way back to stockup on booze, but the 2 main things that prevent me are (1) I am normally too muddy/smelly/sore after the long day hiking and (2) as I drive through newry I don’t see any obvious big supermarket and couldn’t be bothered to try to find the quays area where there is meant to be a Sainsbury. I will definitely do it now tho.

Saw an add on facebook for an offie in newry that will be running a bus from dublin weekly, sort of a park and ride, bring ya to there offie and drop ya back to your car in dublin. I'll post more details if it pops up again.

If that is McDowell’s “guarded welcome” for MUP on the day of its introduction, would he say this at his daughter’s wedding?

“Maybe, just maybe, my new son-in-law will prove a worthy addition to this family. We can only wait and see” 😎

The problem for Senator McDowell is that he is a member of the Oireachtas ie. part of the machinery which brought us MUP (I mean the previous Oireachtas, not the one we elected just before the pandemic after a campaign where all parties avoided any mention of the MUP which the then-Minister for Health had failed to bring into effect. )

Glad to see a letter in the IT using my quote from the Newcastle study. 

The price of alcohol

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/the-price-of-alcohol-1.4770423

There is also a letter from Alcohol Action Ireland which dodges the issues. If that is the best defence from MUP advocates, this will be a hot mess.

There's a nitrosurge group on FB and I see alot of posts of Dunnes all over the country got them in. Very difficult to get