How often do you go to the pub?

Maybe once a year, if someone dies….

Maybe once every few months, can get 10 cans of Heinken for 21 euro while in the pub that would be 70 euro, 25 euro taxi home, 15 euro takeaway.

Generally now me and friends just go to each others houses for a few. The pub scene used to be good, its gone to absolutely shite now.

Two or three times a month, more when i was in my twenties and thirties. Pubs in Dublin, Cork, Galway city centres are packed at weekends. Same in the tourist destinations around the country all through summer. Suburbs and rural towns are quieter.

Yes its expensive but so is everything theses days. Its about the conversation and entertainment, not getting drunk. I have four or five pints. If i didnt go to the pub i would never get to talk to friends. Nothing better at this time of year, sitting in the evening sun with a cold one in the hand.

I love a pub. So probably drop in for a pint 3 times a week. I would not be on the batter like - probably an average of 2 pints per visit.

Pubs around me are all jammed this time of the year Thursday-Sunday. Particularly if the sun is out, be hard getting a seat.

I usually just go on a saturday night but i have definitely noticed that they have gotten much quieter over the last year especially and i cant figure out why?

I generally go to places that are lively commuter town in kildare like maynooth, however even with live music etc they are struggling to get a good crowd. Its not a post covid thing either because its only the last year where it has become so noticeable and its not a small rural town thing either.

Is it that young people are so into health and the body beautiful thing that they have suddenly decided en masse to abandon pubs and even clubs. Is it a weight jab thing, ive heard they remove the enjoyment people get from doing lots of other things aswell like socialising "ozempic brain" they call it.

It could be some fad aswell which will disappear again in a few years as people suddenly realise what they are missing, there is a limit to the social life at a house party , you get bored seeing the same people all the time.

Went out Sat night in Dublin city center. Bar hopped a few places I haven't been in a couple years or so. Everywhere was tumbleweed. A handful of people in each pub. It was shocking to see on a Saturday night in the city center. Camden Street, Wexford Street, Fade Street, Georges Street, etc. It was a bank holiday weekend but only a few years go these places would've been 3 deep at the bar just to get a pint.

Hardly ever …… pubs have been on the slide downhill for years now ….. they no longer are on the radar of a lot of people …… they are seen by many as dirty dens often empty of people and full of overpriced beer ……

There was a time people went there to hear music or join in a music session …… a lot of these do not even happen in many places ….. other people went for a game of pool …… now people have their own pool table at home and invite friends to play at their house …… likewise same goes for cards …….

Covid shut down some pubs …… many closed on March 14th/15th 2020 never to reopen …… but things were going badly a long time before ….. drink driving ….. lack of taxis in some places ….. smoking ban …… but overpriced beer is the biggest cause of all …… you can get 20 cans of beer for 20 Euro whereas 20 Euro would get you at most 4 pints in a pub …… if you are lucky ….. but often would not get you even 3 ……

In some pubs the staff/owners can be rude/indifferent …… not very welcoming ….. some of these places have a very strange attitude towards customers …… in others the clientele do not welcome those not in their 'clique' and are clannish ……. for others if you are not interested in sport esp soccer and GAA you have no business being even there !!! …..

All in all there are people who now consider other forms of entertainment/leisure better than the pub …… for me the statement the Vintners made during Covid about wanting to ban others from selling alcohol lost me my sympathy for them …… the pubs had it too good for years, took their customers for granted/treated them poorly and sold overpriced beer …… their dominance of the alcohol trade is no more and in many ways they brought it on themselves ……

Sounds like bliss.

Fado fado, I use to like going to a pub reading a book or newspaper Saturday a pints or two at most, by myself.

Now it's every now and then and more often than not it for food as well.

I like certain pubs.

I wouldn't be made about Irish pub culture in some ways, for example in the UK you don't get the same male group culture in pubs of slagging which is a form of low level bullying.