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irish drinking age limit going up to 21

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Adrian Kennedy on the FM 104 Phone Show, your mate's Facebook news feed?

    Surely these reputed journals of the day must be Harvard Referenced, carefully scribed and documented for safe keeping. We owe it to our children. And our children's children. And our children's children's children.


  • #33
    Copper_pipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,553 ✭✭✭✭Copper_pipe


    Noooo, im legal in October!


  • #34
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Adrian Kennedy on the FM 104 Phone Show, your mate's Facebook news feed?

    i know, im ashamed to have these fools on my page plonking around listening to this tripe.

    the last time i listened to this show was well over a year ago and it only lasted about 30 seconds, everytime i hear one of them speak or a caller talk my iq drops.

    besides the point i've still yet to see any evidence of this (bill?) to be in the news anywhere or passed ?


  • #35
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Does anyone have any actual sources for this "news" APART from Adrian Kennedy? Where does he claim to have got his information from?


  • #36
    itsonlyus
    Site Banned Posts: 17 ✭itsonlyus


    Should put the smokes up to 25 as must people start smoking in their teens or early twenties and people at that age will have the cop on not to smoke. I smoke myself by the way.

    Drinking age at 21, meh. How can I molest young ones then?


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  • #37
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    I'm on a committee within the industry that has been ask to publish a report on this to the department of health by 26th of July. Its early days yet and our report is only a token gesture which will have no bearing on the outcome.
    At the moment, and from a brief meeting with James Reilly and Tony Holohan, it looks like this is in the program for government for 2014.


  • #38
    TheFOB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭TheFOB


    Senna wrote: »
    I'm on a committee within the industry that has been ask to publish a report on this to the department of health by 26th of July. Its early days yet and our report is only a token gesture which will have no bearing on the outcome.
    At the moment, and from a brief meeting with James Reilly and Tony Holohan, it looks like this is in the program for government for 2014.

    Did the Dept tell you the answer they wanted after they asked the question as is usually the case with BS reports.


  • #39
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,050 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    After drooling over the Obama's and the Kennedy flame, and the fuss this country makes over the USA then im not suprised that the drinking age limit would go up to 21. The next step will be replacing paddies day with a holiday on the 4 rth of July.


  • #40
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    TheFOB wrote: »
    Did the Dept tell you the answer they wanted after they asked the question as is usually the case with BS reports.

    No we are against the proposal. But will are on industry side, we will make as strong a case as possible.
    Our best case scenario (though not what we want) for this is, on-sales will be over 18, off-sales over 21, Off-sales will pay a premium, bring it in line with on-sales prices.
    There are so many permutations, but the VFI no longer has the strength it once had and so these decisions will be made on "medial & social" needs.


  • #41
    smileyj1987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,325 ✭✭✭smileyj1987


    They should make it 15 because most people start at that age at house parties or in fields . We may aswell get more money in tax by letting them go to the pub .


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  • #42
    TheFOB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭TheFOB


    Senna wrote: »
    No we are against the proposal. But will are on industry side, we will make as strong a case as possible.
    Our best case scenario (though not what we want) for this is, on-sales will be over 18, off-sales over 21, Off-sales will pay a premium, bring it in line with on-sales prices.
    There are so many permutations, but the VFI no longer has the strength it once had and so these decisions will be made on "medial & social" needs.

    Bingo. The kite will fly to restrict sales to 21 year olds and the Irish compromise led by the publican TDs will be that pubs are exempt.


  • #43
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    WTF, this is actually happening? I honestly though our f*cking nanny state couldn't get any worse...

    Also bringing off prices in line with pub prices is moronic, pub prices need to come way down, not the other way around :mad:


  • #44
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Senna wrote: »
    No we are against the proposal. But will are on industry side, we will make as strong a case as possible.
    Our best case scenario (though not what we want) for this is, on-sales will be over 18, off-sales over 21, Off-sales will pay a premium, bring it in line with on-sales prices.
    There are so many permutations, but the VFI no longer has the strength it once had and so these decisions will be made on "medial & social" needs.

    So we'll have a "drinking society" like they do in Finland?
    Exorbitant cost of alcohol and still an alcohol problem.

    At times the mind boggles at where the powers that be come up with these ideas. The majority of Irish people can't afford to go to the pub anymore and just go the offie to get a few cans or a bottle of whatever on a night off.
    And now they want to raise the cost so high that you can't even have a drink at home?????

    No disrespect to you Senna, but medical and social needs, my ar3e


  • #45
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Well they can't just change it. I will literally fuck shit up all over this fucking country if they take my sweet vodka away :mad:


  • #46
    Marsden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Marsden


    All this talk of booze is making my throat dry, I'll have to drop down the offy tomorrow and stock up while it's still affordable.


  • #47
    jamaamaj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 956 ✭✭✭jamaamaj


    du Maurier wrote: »
    Kopparberg. Surrounded by ice in a glass. Discussing booze. You like the stuff, don't you?

    Lovely and refreshing out in the sun after a hard day at work.


  • #48
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    Seems about right. 21 would be a reasonable cut-off point, for the sensible drinker looking to take it in moderation down the line

    some backward nations only permit it from 21 onward. But I would I urge anyone from the age of 11 up to know your absolute limit, we tend to think we probably can't drink as much and fail to exploit that?


  • #49
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,589 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    it needs to be lowered, not raised. 16 for beer / wine, 18 for spirits like most of the continent, sure it'll take a while for things to settle down but long term it'd be worth it.


  • #50
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,270 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Ireland and Alcohol. A marriage made in Hell.


  • #51
    BOHtox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    Should be 12, like. Y'know... be grand!


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