The Wine Centre in Kilkenny City has been crowned The Alpha Zeta Leinster Off-Licence of the Year 2022 at this year s National Off-Licence Association.
Supermarkets and off licences in Cork are determined not to let the new law for minimum unit pricing on alcohol have too big an impact on sales despite mixed feelings amongst the public.
Off-licences lobbied to get earlier minimum unit pricing Coalition aims to introduce new pricing laws in January despite concerns it may fuel the cross-border alcohol trade 9th May, 2021
Evelyn Jones, a director of the National Off-Licence Association (Noffla), wrote to Stephen Donnelly in October and played down concerns about cross- border shopping
Off-licences lobbied the Department of Health to push forward with minimum unit pricing (MUP) without waiting for alignment with Northern Ireland in an effort to stop supermarkets offering discounts on alcohol sales.
The government last week announced that MUP would come into effect from January despite concerns that it would lead to an increase in cross-border shopping if alcohol was significantly cheaper in the North.