The Cost of Living 📈

Only if it was Croke park.

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https://twitter.com/thejournal_ie/status/1834138659634749443?t=5oltEB_FzSR2nqVUI2Wipw&s=19

Not a bad aul session for 20 bob

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Did you go to the reopening party tonight

I didn’t,I was out last night.I’ll probably be there next week.

He’s doing up the wrong side of the bar imo. Be a much better bar in the other side. But sure he’s making a fortune so what do I know.

He’s an operator in fairness to him. Didn’t lick it off the ground

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19p for a pint.
I wonder what a bag of Taytos was, tuppence?

Probably less. I remember being able to buy a bag back in the early 80s for 5p

My earliest memory was 7p, you could get fruit salads and black jacks for 2p

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I remember the 50% price hike from 2p to 3p, and the national consternation that caused, but I can’t remember the year.

399 Bob?
A Bob was 5p right? At least in local and decimal parlance, slang for a shilling

Himself and Jack’s must be the 2 of the busiest rural pubs in Limerick.Jacks is rumoured to be for sale for the right price.

It’s for sale.

I heard that alright.Any sign of the lotto winner yet.

Apparently the army barracks won it but I dunno tbh

A bob was 12p = a shilling.
240p was 20 bob = £1.
When decimalisation came in 20 bob became 100p i.e a bob reduced to 5 new pence

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More like 3 and 6pence

Edit - just seen the date. 19p is correct

£19, 9 shillings & 4 pence

@StoneCold
Feck just seen the date, that is £19.94.
The decimal is very much leaned upon with the biro too.

We cam both be right. I was born in 1985 so a bob was a pound, a fiver was five bob etc.