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Publicans want 15% levy on off licence sales....

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  • #212
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    What fresh hell is this??!

    New Plymouth, provincial town in NZ much like Galway say. Some places are $9.50!


  • #213
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Reduce the price of your drink publicans and fill your pubs. Elementary.


  • #214
    Turpentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Turpentine


    Maybe the VFI should do something useful, like using the clout of all their members to force better prices from Diageo/Heineken/Coors etc., rather than (a) trying to get the government to stifle their perceived competitors and (b) blaming the end user for not wanting to pay high prices.


  • #215
    Heroditas
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    tayto lover wrote: »
    Reduce the price of your drink publicans and fill your pubs. Elementary.

    In relative terms, booze in pubs is cheaper now than it was twenty years ago when I started drinking.
    Many people just aren't as interested in drinking in dingy pubs as they used to be and no amount of price reductions will change that.


  • #216
    tayto lover
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    Heroditas wrote: »
    In relative terms, booze in pubs is cheaper now than it was twenty years ago when I started drinking.
    Many people just aren't as interested in drinking in dingy pubs as they used to be and no amount of price reductions will change that.

    3.50 euro where I drink and the pub is full most of the time.
    Of course price is a major factor.


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  • #217
    [Deleted User]
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    Heroditas wrote: »
    People don't want to sit in a dingy dark bar that stinks of farts and stagnant water with ripped seats that has effectively an open sewer for a toiler with no toilet paper or running water.

    Some of the best pubs going would fit that description! You are guaranteed to get a good pint.


  • #218
    Heroditas
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    tayto lover wrote: »
    3.50 euro where I drink and the pub is full most of the time.
    Of course price is a major factor.


    Plenty of pubs in Dublin that charge close to double that and they're also full.


  • #219
    Heroditas
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    Stephen Fast Missile wrote: »
    Some of the best pubs going would fit that description! You are guaranteed to get a good pint.


    Stag's Head fits the bill. It also doesn't have any TVs.
    Added bonus!


  • #220
    tayto lover
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    Heroditas wrote: »
    Plenty of pubs in Dublin that charge close to double that and they're also full.

    Yeah but mine is full longer :D


  • #221
    stmol32
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    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    ...to cover lost revenue due to Alcohol advertising ban in sports.

    If it's to cover the ban on sports advertising then surely the 15% should be levied on companies who took over the advertising, not the off licences.


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  • #222
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,701 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    Red bull is 3.80 in a pub
    Cvnts


  • #223
    Stavro Mueller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,673 ✭✭✭Stavro Mueller


    Aside from the prices, what really ticks me off about pubs is the volume of the music. One minute you're chatting to someone, maybe with music in the background. Then next thing some moron turns it up to 11 and that's the end of that. I wonder how many people in pubs actually want the music that's so ear-splittingly loud that you have to yell at the person beside you just so they can hear you? It'd certainly make things very interesting if bar staff started taking court cases regarding the flouting of the law when it comes to decibels.


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