Has The Price Of Drink Gone Down In Your Local?

Big Nasty · 15-12-2009 10:28PM #1

With the drop in excise duty in the budget there should be a few cents knocked off the price of drink in all pubs (and off-licences). The changes came in to affect from midnight last Wednesday night, the 9th. Even if they had stocked themselves to the hilt last Tues before the price drop their new stock prices should be in affect by now.

Has your local got cheaper yet? And if not have you asked why?

electrogrimey · 15-12-2009 10:30PM

Offos have gotten cheaper, Hollandia is now 6 for €4.50, when it used to be €6/€7. Long live Fianna Fáil.

The Master · 15-12-2009 10:30PM

down by 20c , still a robbing **** hole though

SoWatchaWant · 15-12-2009 10:30PM

Haven't noticed yet, bud.

Degag · 15-12-2009 10:31PM

Down 15c to €3.65

Danbo! · 15-12-2009 10:32PM

There was a sign in the Orchard in Rathfarnham saying "Thank you to Mr Lenihan" for dropping the price, which "we will pass on to our customers". Even with the drop, its 5.10 for a bloody pint tho.

ciano1 · 15-12-2009 10:32PM

SoWatchaWant wrote: »

Haven't noticed yet, bud.

What about Heineken ? :rolleyes:

donkey balls · 15-12-2009 10:32PM

my local droped it by 15cent another pub by 10 cent and the third one did not bother

Jet Black · 15-12-2009 10:33PM

Was in fitzsimons last week and it had a sign saying it has reduced the price

Although it was 5.25 or something close for a pint and 6.05 after 11. Nice one!

15-12-2009 10:34PM

Stee wrote: »

There was a sign in the Orchard in Rathfarnham saying "Thank you to Mr Lenihan" for dropping the price, which "we will pass on to our customers". Even with the drop, its 5.10 for a bloody pint tho.

They have some f***ing cheek having that sign and then charging 5.10 for a pint.

Liam Byrne · 15-12-2009 10:40PM

Stee wrote: »

There was a sign in the Orchard in Rathfarnham saying "Thank you to Mr Lenihan" for dropping the price, which "we will pass on to our customers". Even with the drop, its 5.10 for a bloody pint tho.

That'd put me right off drinking there, anyways......I mean, big fvukng deal; a few cent off a pint, and yet hundreds out of our pay packets to bail out his buddies in the banks and golden circles! :mad:

admiralofthefleet · 15-12-2009 10:46PM

i havent been in my local in ages but the pub i work in dropped it staight away

John Mason · 15-12-2009 10:52PM

the hole in the wall in cabra dropped theirs immediately

was there last thursday night and overheard a wonderful conversation withe owner and another pub owner

hole owner: so have you dropped your prices

other owner: no and i am not going to. have you dropped yours?

hole owner: yes, we we done it today

other owner: jaysis, fair play to you, a bit stupid but fair play

liah · 15-12-2009 10:52PM

Certain beers have gone down as much as 50c around here depending on the pub, which is really, really nice.

artanevilla · 15-12-2009 10:55PM

We put ours down day after.

Guinness 4.20 down to 4.05
Lagers 4.65 down to 4.50
Cider 4.50 down to 4.35
Large Bulmers 5.00 down to 4.85
Smitwicks 4.30 down to 4.15

minidazzler · 15-12-2009 10:57PM

liah wrote: »

Certain beers have gone down as much as 50c around here depending on the pub, which is really, really nice.

Fosters and other such I assume? Drinkable, but I don't like it!

15-12-2009 11:00PM

I'm not sure about the price of drink but the girl behind the bar has gone down on half the punters in the pub.

admiralofthefleet · 15-12-2009 11:02PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

I'm not about the price of drink but the girl behind the bar has gone down on half the punters in the pub.

lol wut?

where is this watering hole?

laugh · 15-12-2009 11:07PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

lol wut?

where is this watering hole?

Ah don't be so coy! :pac:

Mimikyu · 15-12-2009 11:10PM

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15-12-2009 11:16PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

lol wut?

where is this watering hole?

At the top of her legs just below her waist.

kenneth5 · 15-12-2009 11:32PM

A pint is gone down by ten cent in my local. they cost 4.20 - still a rip off

15-12-2009 11:40PM

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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He's taking a lead from sofa stores, jack up the prices for a few weeks (or days) then put up huge banners saying 15% off of similar while in reality only dropping the price back to where it was.

Gringo180 · 15-12-2009 11:48PM

Deleted User wrote: »

He's taking a lead from sofa stores, jack up the prices for a few weeks (or days) then put up huge banners saying 15% off of similar while in reality only dropping the price back to where it was.

Thats what argos always do:rolleyes:

Anyhow big bleeding deal 10-20c off a pint there still robbing fcuks, were getting analally raped in this city on the price of a pint

Mimikyu · 15-12-2009 11:56PM

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iguy · 16-12-2009 12:02AM

In my local in kildare bud has gone down from 4.35 to 3.85.carlsberg down from 4.49 to 4.05.guinness down from 4.65 to 4.45.beamish down from 4.40 to 4.25.heinekin down from 4.55 to 3.99!. All alcopops down from 4.85 to 4.30 plus many other price drops.

Big Nasty · 16-12-2009 12:22AM

iguy wrote: »

In my local in kildare bud has gone down from 4.35 to 3.85.carlsberg down from 4.49 to 4.05.guinness down from 4.65 to 4.45.beamish down from 4.40 to 4.25.heinekin down from 4.55 to 3.99!. All alcopops down from 4.85 to 4.30 plus many other price drops.

How the Feek is Guinness and Beamish more expensive than any other beer in Kildare?

kenneth5 · 16-12-2009 12:28AM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

How the Feek is Guinness and Beamish more expensive than any other beer in Kildare?[/quote

Was wondering that myself. Around my neck of the woods a pint of guiness is usually about 30 cent cheaper and Beamish up to a euro chraper.

The_Thing · 16-12-2009 12:32AM

I gave up drinking alcohol when the pension levy was introduced for public sector workers back in march or april. I thought "fcuk you, Lenihan, you've taken it off me in one way, I'll get it back in another" As a result of this I am more or less as well off as I was before the levy was introduced.

Listening to Ryan Tubridy this morning I heard one woman say that she'd been out in Dublin over the week-end and had paid something like €8.30 for a vodka and coke.

The government and the publicans are charging people for their foolishness - as long as people are willing to pay their rip-off prices and excise duties then that is what YOU will do - PAY.

ynotdu · 16-12-2009 12:33AM

iguy wrote: »

In my local in kildare bud has gone down from 4.35 to 3.85.carlsberg down from 4.49 to 4.05.guinness down from 4.65 to 4.45.beamish down from 4.40 to 4.25.heinekin down from 4.55 to 3.99!. All alcopops down from 4.85 to 4.30 plus many other price drops.

and that was only iguy's 'curer'! :pac::pac::D

Big Nasty · 16-12-2009 12:42AM

The_Thing wrote: »

I gave up drinking alcohol when the pension levy was introduced for public sector workers back in march or april. I thought "fcuk you, Lenihan, you've taken it off me in one way, I'll get it back in another" As a result of this I am more or less as well off as I was before the levy was introduced.

Listening to Ryan Tubridy this morning I heard one woman say that she'd been out in Dublin over the week-end and had paid something like €8.30 for a vodka and coke.

The government and the publicans are charging people for their foolishness - as long as people are willing to pay their rip-off prices and excise duties then that is what YOU will do - PAY.

What sort of answer is this?

How is giving up the drink a two fingers to the government? Do you enjoy drink? If so, I think the only looser there is yourself, excepting your liver of course!

In relation to the price of drink I fully agree that if the excise is reduced the price of drink should be reduced accordingly but if you think the vast majority of pubs are rip off merchants, think again. The bar trade is an extremely difficult business at the moment as people are reluctant to spend and generally only go out on a weekend night. Therefore you have to staff your pub from 10.30am Monday until closing time Sunday just to make a few bob the weekend. Plus insurance costs are massive, wage costs are pretty high with the avg bartender getting cq. €12 an hour and most pubs have to serve food now to get any level of business in at all during the week. There was a day when having a pub was a licence to print money, there were Indians tippin' round that time too!

Has The Price Of Drink Gone Down In Your Local?

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