You fucking alco.
Close them today
Bridie and Nuala will be in a for a shock when they realise their campaigns against young people and house parties will result in them not being able to have their cheeky bottle of red every night.
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The optimal solution is to ban all off license sales of middle class alcohol like wine and craft beer and allow only slabs of Tuborb and Galahad. Your hardcore alcoholics will be able to function while Breda and Nuala will turn on the nanny state.
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Where do you stand on Black Barrel
Whiskey allowed. Brandy, Gin and Liqueurs banned. Anything Nuala would enjoy banned. Anything consumed on a flat roof during student rag week allowed.
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Youâd be shocked when at the tills in supermarkets the amount of alcohol people are purchasing. Multiples of wine, bottles of spirits, slabs of beer etc.
Must be a lot of secret alcoholics about.
I have purchased 2x bottles of whiskey and a six pack of Peroni since last March.
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Iâd genuinely laugh if they closed the off licences. Iâd say lads would genuinely storm the dail.
Paddy is getting âŹ350pw on the PUP and paying âŹ400pw on excise tax.
Wine OâClock is a big issue in this country.
Itâs been an issue long before Covid too. Maybe the older stocks like @Fagan_ODowd and @anon67715551 would be able to recant us of how this phenomenon came about, I assume that before the late 90s that off licences were few and far between and the selection limited enough and fairly expensive which made going to the pub an easier and just as cost effective alternative and then the Celtic Tiger emerged and at home drinking really started to take effect.
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Women big as houses loading 10 bottles of red wine into a trolley is 2020.
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Iâd say drink driving enforcement was a big factor in rural Ireland
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Maybe, although I think that women drinking at home has probably grown exponentially compared to 30 years ago in Ireland. Maybe it is societal changes and the loosening of the Catholic church and the rise of women in Irish society from home makers to bread winners has probably played a role as well
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Yeah I have seen a lot of that. Buying a case of wine is the done thing now.
Off licences were few and far between and werenât particularly attractive places either. There was one I remember at the back of Madigans pub that was particularly grim. Bare block walls and a selection of large bottles Guinness, Harp and Smithwicks, maybe a few whiskey bottles and a derisory bottle of wine covered in dust. And lots of cider. Not an attractive retail experience for the middle classes, either male or female. All the pubs did off sales as well but they were largely for giving an oul lad a naggin on the way home.
Of course you could get wine in supermarkets back in those days as well. I remember Ardkeen stocked the oul Blue Nun in the 70s.
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Our next door neighbour had a case delivered to our house by accident from Red nose wine a few months ago. She was fairly red faced coming to collect it. âErr they are presents for a few people that done favours for me over the yearâ she said sheepishly.
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Yeah i assumed as such. A few pubs in Dublin which still have the off licence attached to the pub like McGrathâs up by Drumcondra Station, The Clock in Kingswood, the Concorde in Edenmore to name a few Iâve seen inside all are fairly drab places and probably the same as they were 30 years ago.
As as aside, there used to be a woman in her early 60s who was a hard drinker who would often frequent one of the pubs I used to work in. She would often be out around the various pubs from opening to closing, supping back glasses of Heineken for the day, she would always be sozzled but never legless from it. With closing time approaching she would always discreetly ask for four measure of whiskey to be put in a lucosade bottle to be taken home with her. She was clever enough not to ask or get a full bottle as she knew she would drink as much of it as she could. the four whiskeys were for hair of the dog the next morning. A sad auld existence
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There is no panic. The HSE will get to it when they are good and ready
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