Price of a pint !

jaysis I must get out of the big smoke.

Because of all the loose change that ends up on the bedroom floor and extra coins in tills

Where in rural donegal was this? Was 5/5.20 round xmas when i was last up there

But pint number 24 will be free so get stuck in! 😄

As others have said it's a pity it's not noticeably cheaper, but if it affects sales enough you'd never know.

No, I remember a headline in the Evening Herald that said "5 euro pint has finally arrived" and it was somewhere in temple bar. Its part of the irish national psyche to complain about the price of a pint but then keep buying them anyway.

my local put has the Guinness now approaching €8 a pint. (€7.65 I’ve heard) ….. hearing this 2nd hand because I don’t purchase alcohol in bars anymore since it’s past €7 everywhere I used to drink. It’s not even the money but the principal of refusing to be ripped off.

Glenamaddy, Co Galway. Queue starts over there —>

They must have a limit per customer? Otherwise people would take the mick and be lowering pints like crazy for the hour, then order 4 more just before the cut off point 🥴

Continually raising prices is still allowed; so they just have to open at 8 for it to be legal.

I would be fairly certain they will be open before 8…

The publicans charge more for products they buy for less from independent brewers; so the publicans are very much part of the problem.

Ja remember when you were a kid, had no conception of money and the price of things and just accepted whatever the price was, and you told your dad what you spent on a record, or a haircut or a pair of 501 jeans and he nearly had a heart attack.

Well I’ve just turned into my dad looking at that price - but then again I probably turned into my dad once Guiness first went over a fiver a pint it must be said.

I mean jayzuz - 40 years ago it was around £1.20 a pint -so 1.50 yo-yo’s.
So 5 times the price of my teenage drinking years -a pair of Levi’s 501’s was probably 5 times cheaper back then too. Fags though were more like 7 times cheaper.

Desert boots were all the rage in the 80s- £15 got you cheapy but ok - -£20 got you posh versions - I’ve seen desert boots asking about eur115 recently for the equivalent posher versions so again 5-6 times the price .

Wine is actually something that has got better value - £9 25 years ago got you a decent bottle of plonk - very good actually - Eur 20-25 would get you the equivalent today so wine is better value definitely than beer

@oldies- feel free to challenge back on my post above

True - it has been edging that ways for years now. I think @Thelonious Monk mentioned earlier it started with the Millennium, pubs taking the urine by charging an entry fee. A few years later the smoking ban (which should have been done differently) reduced footfall further.

The biggest hammer-blow though IMO was the upping of checkpoints the morning after. (I think anyone drink-driving is an out-and-out clown) Driving the fear of God into anyone driving at 8am having sank a few pints the night before killed it. I think this came in around 2012 or 2013?

The rural pubs had actually got a bounce from the upping of night-time checkpoints in the 1990s as lads chancing leaving their rural village to go clubbing in the nearest large town was stopped. This meant no exodus from the pubs come 9.30pm. A few busses took up the slack and that sorted out the lads from those who really wanted to go from the lads who just went along for the craic.

Going for a pint in rural Ireland is now a lottery. There was a time where you'd WhatsApp a mate or two to head out for a few, but the disappointment of being the one to message the lads for a pint only to go down to the pub and nobody fecking in it. The organiser usually has to big it up - come out for a few for the craic! Therefore lads don't bother messaging.

At least in my area I can walk down for a pint, nobody out, feck it - tip over to the offie (owned by the pub anyways) gather up a few cans and feck off home again. A few out and about, grand - join in and have a few pints.

Christmas gone was an interesting pattern in the pubs locally. The big nights - Stephens Night, NYE, etc… not a huge crowd out. The other nights you'd expect it to be quiet over Christmas and there was almost as much in having pints.

You just don't call it a happy hour.

As far as I know a boozer can sell their wares for whatever they like.

No, there's quite strict regulation on short term price changes, brought in in the late 00s.

Couldn't really do it then either.

Enforcement for this is basically non existent because nobody cares; it was done to try appease the baying neoprohibitionist hounds but they always want more restrictions.

If you do something really blatant you might get in trouble for it.