Minimum alcohol pricing is nigh

I don't know if it will lead to emigration but it's one fúcking thing after another.

A sample of monthly outgoings this/last month:

€2200 rent

€1100 crèche

€230 ESB

€200 Gas

€800 car insurance (no accident ever, 15 years driving)

€200 car tax

€2300 family health insurance

After years of doing sweet fúck all to deal with these issues, they want to take my two cheap cans a week away from me too? Sure what's another €140 a year to this lad, he can take it? It's not just this, it's this bollocks on top of everything else.

I'm in NI every couple of months and you can be damn sure I'll be carrying the full load home.

I doubt anyone will do much, maybe sign the petition, I haven't heard a single thing about the avoidance/boycott of premises owned by TDs etc. whatever was discussed.

I think any petition would have to include asking the government to stop supporting charities with our money.

AAI are also actively trying to ban online purchases, when most places won't already deliver here because of the excise complications.

Most of my friends still don't get MUP and think it's just a small price hike "Like the cigarettes".

This is BEFORE the introduction of MUP. I believe MUP is just the straw that broke a lot of backs:

Some more reading here

https://www.drinksindustry.ie/assets/Documents/DIGI-Tax-Report-2019.pdf

No one wants pity, they just want to be able to enjoy a can at market price, not some artificially floored one.

The only charade is that this is a public health measure.

God when you see it like that you really understand how bad weve been treated by successive governments.

But they normally charge €10+ for yellowtail muck. It will be on offer for €8 soon enough. So nothing to do with MUP

They also normally charge €14 for an 8 pack of hop house. the 12.50 special offer was for Christmas. At 4.1% they could still sell it at 12.90, but their normal price is €14 and it is back to that price. Nothing to do with MUP

I thought the G&T cans were €2.50 each or close to that.

as for dail bar (christ, do eejits still use that old chestnut), the #1 drink sold there is coffee, the #2 is tea, Diest coke outsells guinness and it is NOT subsidised and rent is paid. They don't have to pay doormen and don't need to apply for late licences so prices are rural kildare rather than city centre Dublin and the biggest customers are general visitors to the dail. (btw pint guinness is €4.80)

Hope no-one is going to sainbury's this weekend. They will be very very disappointed

Then you'd have no problem closing it. Open a coffee shop in its place. Nice barrista machine.

Whats good for the goose.

No the Christmas price was €10, so go back to your meeting.

You are missing the point though, It doesn't really matter that some drinks didn't go up, or some only went up 20cents etc.. MUP itself is worth arguing against, on every level.

For what it stands for, for who benefits from it the most (despite politicians trying to convince us that we do, we don't.), for how it is applied, and for many more reasons without going into the actual price of alcohol.

Got the ESB bill today. Holy suffering Jasus.

We will be eating gruel and drinking pond water soon.

ESB and gruel and pond water.

You lucky sods.

Over here on the other side of Misery Mountain we are down to our last candle and existing on a diet of small stones and grass washed down with the wringings of a damp cat.

I got into a bad habit of drinking them filthy, cheap Galahad way more than I should. I was seriously considering knocking it on the head before the increase in price… so hopefully with the help of a little willpower this will be a good thing for me.

Hartigan's is a bit of a dive and one of the cheapest bars in the whole of Dublin 2.

Even then it is still more expensive than the Dail bar

"Is there evidence that alcohol users turn to drugs as a result of the policy?"

Verdict

It was claimed this week that the introduction of Minimum Unit Pricing in Ireland would lead to an increased reliance among drinkers on “other unsafe substances”.

However, there is no evidence to support this claim.

Available research does not point to a link between Minimum Unit Pricing and an increase in drug use, while three experts in the field who spoke to The Journal also played down the claim.

This does not necessarily mean that this will not happen in Ireland following the introduction of the policy here. As one expert told us, just because it didn’t happen in other countries doesn’t mean that it won’t happen in Ireland. But there is currently no evidence to suggest that it definitely will. 

We therefore rate the claim: UNPROVEN.