How often do you go to the pub?

Of course you can balance things out. Sure you can spend €25. Four/five pints a week, nothing wrong with that. But you're never going for a big night our on a budget of €25 a week. The accusation earlier was young people are missing out because they don't tend to go for big nights out anymore.

Priorities have changed in recent decades. You'll always have a few people who don't worry about the future and some who are minted. But enough young people don't have money to go on big nights out that they have found cheaper ways to entertain themselves. I know people who don't go for pints because they want to be fresh for the park run in the morning for example. I can't argue with that.

Use AI to look up pints under €7 inntbe city center Dublin and gigs under €15 lots of options.

A pub not selling food is for the most part a bad business man. Assuming you are in a half decent location, you'll make more on food than you will selling pints.

I actually like pubs that are selling food, they tend to be a higher quality of bar than the Moe's Tavern dingy kips throwing pints only over the counter and the same few talking heads sitting there.

There’s a pub I go to that have no room for a kitche, but a large car park. Even a food truck for pizza or burgers would be great.

Places doing food tend not to care about the quality of the pint, often a lad on his own is an inconvenience. They don't want you sitting at a table blocking four seats at lunchtime.

A lot of "pubs" have a sign inside the door saying please wait to be seated.

Proper pubs don't serve food. Places that sell food are known as restaurants.

I was at the counter in a "bar" recently and they were more interesting in filling the drinks tickets coming up on the printer than making sure the few lads along the counter were looked after. The staff will follow the money (the tips) I don't blame them.

Restaurants trying to identify as a pubs should be prosecuted for false advertising.

Tony Holohan will be so happy, that was one of his silent objectives from the Covid 19 lockdowns fulfilled.

He's inventing conspiracy theories out of thin air to denigrate a man, who has decades of experience being a public health physician and who worked his bollocks off during the recent pandemic to keep the country safe, to the detriment of his own and his family's well-being.

Chap's wife was dying of cancer throughout the whole ordeal, but yeah, he had a raging hard-on for banning drink altogether, according to some, and was more preoccupied with ushering in draconian laws than spending the remaining, dwindling days with the love of his life.

Yet all you ever hear about from the instagram warriors is the price down the road in Temple bar.

While I agree with you overall, I'm personally not seeing people moving from towns and villages into one-off housing, not where I live anyway - insofar as there's any movement at all, it's in the opposite direction. However town centres now seem to be almost uninhabited - I know of towns where whole streets re boarded up (shops, pubs and former private houses). Presumably the residents either died off or moved to outlying estates, but I suppose that also makes them more likely to go to the out-of-town retail area. I must admit I do that myself, simply and solely because it's much easier to drive in and out and to park there. The only town centre I actually like is, perhaps bizarrely, Dublin, because it's largely pedestrianised, you can get a train to Connolly and not worry about parking, and then walk around in relative peace.

Can i ask where you got the pint for a fiver? heading to the Liberties to meet friends for a pint this weekend.

Nice. And the place get good reviews too.