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crazy 88 · 07-01-2022 03:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118433470#Comment_118433470

They are. But that's a different issue

Atlantic Dawn · 07-01-2022 03:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118433470#Comment_118433470

I've been saying for years that the 2.30 closing time sets a target for people to bulk up on booze by, if they allowed opening until 4-6am staggered between pubs you would have much less people interacting with each other at closing time.

Losty Dublin · 07-01-2022 03:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118433364#Comment_118433364

Depends on what you drink.

Alcohol is to be priced based on ABV content of the drink. A can of entry level beer/cider and yellow pack wines and spirits will be affected as will crates and multiple packs, which generally carried discounted or were loss leaders or whatever. A can of Guinness/Heineken/Bulmers on it's own always cost over €2 but the 8 pack is €12-14 and a crate of 24 was circa €25. Now it's priced per can Doesn't take a dummy to work out what's going on here, once you get past the gubbermint conspiracy nonsense.

You won't see the €8 bottle of Bailey's knock off anymore either or the €4 table plonk vino or Painstripperski Vodka for a tenner. Your bottle of Powers or Smirnoff will still be €20-€22ish and no more weekend one day only price cuts.

Almost all craft/premium beers won't be affected; bottoms up for some of us at least ☺️

07-01-2022 03:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118433461#Comment_118433461

Some alcoholics are quite fussy about the quality of their drink. Alcoholism crosses all types of people from impoverished to extremely wealthy. It does mean a higher proportion of the spend goes on it, though, with the super wealthy buying tons of bottles of best champagne etc.

fritzelly · 07-01-2022 03:17PM

How much is the beer in the Dail bar?

ShamNNspace · 07-01-2022 03:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118433461#Comment_118433461

And this nonsense is going to make them change their habits?? and btw as if things weren't bad enough this will drive more students down the other drug routes from the lad in the carpark imv

Atlantic Dawn · 07-01-2022 03:18PM

A massive 10k car convoy to Newry is needed.

McDermotX · 07-01-2022 03:20PM

Get in dere Dennis

Dempo1 · 07-01-2022 03:21PM

Is this Cawlur seriously waiting for the Northern assembly to agree with anything 🤔

07-01-2022 03:21PM

He’s right, money is not a barrier to somebody addicted. They will pay for booze by hell or high water, as with cigarettes or anything. And a person with a long-standing alcohol addiction will literally die without taking it unless medically supervised.

crazy 88 · 07-01-2022 03:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118433496#Comment_118433496

Nope it probably won't but they see it as next step and to look as though they are doing something. Awareness campaigns blasting 24/7 aren't doing much good either.

Only way it will happen would be a generational thing like the way smoking is (I think) less popular in schools than it was back in my day

zell12 · 07-01-2022 03:22PM

'de most vulnerable in our society'

Atlantic Dawn · 07-01-2022 03:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118433491#Comment_118433491

Cheaper by a good €1 a pint than anywhere else I know in Dublin City Centre...

Guinness €4.80

Heineken €5.20

https://www.thejournal.ie/dail-bar-most-popular-pints-2021-5633295-Dec2021/

BPKS · 07-01-2022 03:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118433454#Comment_118433454

Maybe it's cos those lazy b@stards sleep for a few hours in the afternoon when they should be starting their session.

Dan Jaman · 07-01-2022 03:22PM

Poor auld Dennis cawled in to say what a smart wan he was, but ends up getting mired in a row about pyssers travelling.

Dempo1 · 07-01-2022 03:23PM

I wonder what Dennis will do when his beer runs out , get a ferry to Europe 🤔

AyeGer · 07-01-2022 03:23PM

Dennis was a bit slow to pick up the point that was clearly being made. Getting a bit defensive there.

zell12 · 07-01-2022 03:23PM

Is this free advertising for booze industry?

Atlantic Dawn · 07-01-2022 03:24PM

The vodka will be the lower fat option, less belly, more welly.

Dempo1 · 07-01-2022 03:24PM

Niall just caught Covid

crazy 88 · 07-01-2022 03:25PM

There was very little in the media leading up to it..same when alcohol was banned from club card points. I wonder was that "requested" by the government?

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-01-2022 03:25PM

I hope this won’t effect my beloved Special Brew

zell12 · 07-01-2022 03:25PM

Dennis is going to hit the road now

07-01-2022 03:25PM

Dennis off to tear into a few cans

lertsnim · 07-01-2022 03:25PM

Price some groups out of buying alcohol in a shop and they will drink god knows what that was distilled in a shed somewhere. Cheap alcohol, no matter how dangerous it is, will always exist.

zell12 · 07-01-2022 03:26PM

Does he not realise the shops were selling alcohol below cost?

07-01-2022 03:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118433558#Comment_118433558

Yep, always after the horse has bolted are these things allowed to be discussed.

Atlantic Dawn · 07-01-2022 03:26PM

No the 'special fund' will become some crooked scheme that will be investigated down the line for fraud.

ShamNNspace · 07-01-2022 03:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118433527#Comment_118433527

These things are happening organically anyway and nonsense like this achieves nothing apart from making those fundamentalists in that "charity" AAI which we are paying for btw all fluffy inside and filling the coffers of the retailers, the pubs will gain frig all though in their own naive and childlike heads they think they will

Jordan 199 · 07-01-2022 03:26PM

Play out the show with 'One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer' - The George Thorogood version.

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