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Donât tell me the price of a pint is rising?
Well, yes and no - mainly no though. Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly will bring a memo to Cabinet on Tuesday covering the introduction of minimum unit pricing for alcohol.
What is that again?
In very simple terms, minimum unit pricing sees the State set the lowest price at which alcohol can be sold. It is based on how much alcohol a product contains, so the more units in a bottle, the higher the price.
Why would they do that?
Cheap alcohol in supermarkets and off-licences has long been blamed for an increase in alcohol-related deaths in Ireland and international evidence suggests that price changes can have a big effect on how much people drink.
Minimum pricing for alcohol to be enforced from January 2022 Measures signed off by Cabinet mean alcohol will not be available at ‘pocket-money prices’
Tue, May 4, 2021, 18:20
Minimum pricing for alcohol will be brought in from January 2022 under plans signed off on by Cabinet on Tuesday.
The Government decided to press ahead with the plan despite fears among retailers that it would send bargain shoppers over the Border in the absence of minimum unit pricing there.
Efforts to bring in similar measures in Northern Ireland are not expected to begin until mid-2022 at the earliest.
There has been resistance to the measure from the drinks industry, retailers and some Border TDs.
This is what you should be drinking on St Patrick s Day
Tomorrow is St Patrick’s Day, and while Boris didn’t actually order the closure of pubs until 20 March 2020, for most of us this will be the second year in a row that we mark the event at home. This is no time to crowd into a bar with your mates, swilling Guinness while shouting along with songs from The Chieftains, The Pogues, or The Dubliners. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t get into the spirit of the occasion. And the spirit of St Patrick’s Day is Irish whiskey.
Irish pubs plans: 11 popular boozers that were sold in 2020 and their ideas for this year
It was a busy year on the pub market despite being the quietest year for the pub trade
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Eleven pubs were sold in Dublin in 2020 as publicans look to hopefully a better year for trade compared to the annus horribilis that was the last 12 months.