Surely they haven’t come to this realisation now, have they?
Of course people will go North. I was coming back from Leitrim recently and went into Asda, Enniskillen. I got drink for £10 that was double to treble here. The drinks aisle were full of people stocking up for engagement parties, barbecues etc.
If only this article could have been posted a year ago before they banned cheap alcohol and shoppers were sent North…
Going north only really makes sense for people living along the border region. For anyone in munster, you’d need to be buying a lot to make it work
Duh
Well….I think its nice that we prop up the Northern Irish economy.
Don’t want them to suffer like the rest of the UK. Will only cost us more later…
Just start brewing your own
The North is planning to bring in MUP too. The original plan was that it would happen together, to prevent this cross border stuff, but delays up North meant we just went ahead with it here first.
What cheap alcohol ?
MUP has to be one of the dumbest policies ever created. Universal support. Opposition and government. Alcohol related deaths, highest in years in Scotland. And to just hand the difference to supermarkets, not even tax it. Imagine drug dealers love it.
The North is always full of Mexicans
Go away we are full
/s
Nani o matte?? There’s cheap drink to be had? Where??
There was never any cheap alcohol in Ireland to ban in the first place ffs
Plot twist, Irish alcohol prices are already some of the highest in Europe
I look forward to the next time that politicians come knocking on my door looking for my vote.
It is cheaper to buy Alcohol up the North but when you factor in the time and fuel, I’m not so sure about any major savings.
I have already made 3 trips up north this year while I happened to be there. Harp may be harp but its still cheaper than in the republic. Haven’t saved massively, but its the principle of MUP that counts.
When I heard ‘Pocket money prices’ being used to describe drink in Ireland I thought that the ministers kids were getting way more in pocket money than I was given as a kid.
>But it warned: “It is clear, however, its introduction has resulted in price differentials on alcohol products across the border which might lead to an increase in cross-border trade, undermining the tax take from alcohol sales.
”But…. but… but they told us MUP was a health related issue!
You have to feel for homeless people who are alcoholics. Alcohol as it is, is expensive. This will just open up another problem that will lead to less fortunate people stealing alcohol or drying out unsupervised which is very dangerous.
I don’t even drink (partly medical reasons, but never enjoyed it much to begin with, though that’s probably due to aforementioned medical reasons that I was unaware of, it did not make feel good) and MUP annoys me.
It’s such a waggy finger, mammying, condescending, not-address-the-real-problems approach.
Aside from just benefitting the vintners thing, it’s all about that really patronizing approach of “protecting” the lower classes from themselves, while the middle class smugly come back from France on a wine run with a boot full of plonk in the back of their Range Rover. I know, because I’m a middle class arsehole that got family to brink back a load of booze for my wife that’ll probably last a few years. More JD than a GnR tour rider sitting in our cabinet.
All it does is take a simple pleasure less accessible for people on lower incomes, even if they drink responsibly.
I mean if you want to tackle the actual problems alcohol causes here – addiction and anti-social behaviour (so endemic people confuse mild anti-social behaviour like waking up half the street as just “having the craic”) then you invest in proper mental health services and actual policing where you don’t just let people being noisy openly drunk on the street fly.
A change in licensing laws so there’s not a closing time panic and diversifying of nightlife (e.g. going to actually do something like clubbing or seeing live music rather than “going for pints”) would help too.
When they tight headlines like this, who the fuck are they talking about?
People living on the border?
I’m certainly not travelling the length of the country for booze. Who would even do that?
I moved to Belfast recently, A 20 pack of bud costs 12 pound which is about half what it costs in dublin.
I’m not going to drink anymore or any less because of the price, I’ll just save a few quid when I do..
What cheap alcohol? We have the most expensive in the EU outside Scandinavia.
Where have these arsewipes been. All my friends get their beer in norn iron.
The government thinking raising the price of alcohol will help people with alcoholism is laughable at best.
Isnt it mad that one of the argument against united Ireland is that North has cheeper alcohol and paracetamol ?
It would really need to be an all Ireland arrangement
As someone who was reared by an alcoholic MUP just feels like another thing I can’t have because someone else is an alcoholic.
I know it’s irrational but when you’re growing up in a home like that, and survive, the biggest thing that plays on your mind is time lost and by respect all the things that go with it.
I’ll be in the North later today and France later this year, and I’m not even a big drinker. I would mind slightly less if the MAP was kicking back more tax to the state to deal with the problems, but gifting it to the vendors is just shite.
Mybooze.eu
Thank me later
That headline doesn’t make sense.
The MUP has already been brought in. The headline suggests that it may be brought in in the next budget.
Spoiler…. we are already
Banning weed has sent shoppers to Europe
Since minimum pricing came in, I’ve doddled over the border a couple of times to get alcohol. That, unfortunately for local shops here, has turned into myself, my dad, brother and occassionally a friend, meeting up in newry regularly and having a cup of tea, sandwich etc in a cafe whilst we do a proper full shop.
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So the only things we really buy locally now are things like milk and bread, that we replenish fairly regularly. Between the 3 or 4 of us that go up, the best part of a grand (often more) goes out of the Republic as a result of this silly pricing strategy.
​
I do feel bad for people who aren’t near the border, but I’d still recommend people take a drive up. If you’re within 90minutes of the border, you’ll still save money, I reckon, by shopping up there instead, if you’re doing a proper shop. (we’d buy about 2 weeks of shopping at a time).
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Surely they haven’t come to this realisation now, have they?
Of course people will go North. I was coming back from Leitrim recently and went into Asda, Enniskillen. I got drink for £10 that was double to treble here. The drinks aisle were full of people stocking up for engagement parties, barbecues etc.
If only this article could have been posted a year ago before they banned cheap alcohol and shoppers were sent North…
Going north only really makes sense for people living along the border region. For anyone in munster, you’d need to be buying a lot to make it work
Duh
Well….I think its nice that we prop up the Northern Irish economy.
Don’t want them to suffer like the rest of the UK. Will only cost us more later…
Just start brewing your own
The North is planning to bring in MUP too. The original plan was that it would happen together, to prevent this cross border stuff, but delays up North meant we just went ahead with it here first.
What cheap alcohol ?
MUP has to be one of the dumbest policies ever created. Universal support. Opposition and government. Alcohol related deaths, highest in years in Scotland. And to just hand the difference to supermarkets, not even tax it. Imagine drug dealers love it.
The North is always full of Mexicans
Go away we are full
/s
Nani o matte?? There’s cheap drink to be had? Where??
There was never any cheap alcohol in Ireland to ban in the first place ffs
Plot twist, Irish alcohol prices are already some of the highest in Europe
I look forward to the next time that politicians come knocking on my door looking for my vote.
It is cheaper to buy Alcohol up the North but when you factor in the time and fuel, I’m not so sure about any major savings.
I have already made 3 trips up north this year while I happened to be there. Harp may be harp but its still cheaper than in the republic. Haven’t saved massively, but its the principle of MUP that counts.
When I heard ‘Pocket money prices’ being used to describe drink in Ireland I thought that the ministers kids were getting way more in pocket money than I was given as a kid.
>But it warned: “It is clear, however, its introduction has resulted in price differentials on alcohol products across the border which might lead to an increase in cross-border trade, undermining the tax take from alcohol sales.
”But…. but… but they told us MUP was a health related issue!
You have to feel for homeless people who are alcoholics. Alcohol as it is, is expensive. This will just open up another problem that will lead to less fortunate people stealing alcohol or drying out unsupervised which is very dangerous.
I don’t even drink (partly medical reasons, but never enjoyed it much to begin with, though that’s probably due to aforementioned medical reasons that I was unaware of, it did not make feel good) and MUP annoys me.
It’s such a waggy finger, mammying, condescending, not-address-the-real-problems approach.
Aside from just benefitting the vintners thing, it’s all about that really patronizing approach of “protecting” the lower classes from themselves, while the middle class smugly come back from France on a wine run with a boot full of plonk in the back of their Range Rover. I know, because I’m a middle class arsehole that got family to brink back a load of booze for my wife that’ll probably last a few years. More JD than a GnR tour rider sitting in our cabinet.
All it does is take a simple pleasure less accessible for people on lower incomes, even if they drink responsibly.
I mean if you want to tackle the actual problems alcohol causes here – addiction and anti-social behaviour (so endemic people confuse mild anti-social behaviour like waking up half the street as just “having the craic”) then you invest in proper mental health services and actual policing where you don’t just let people being noisy openly drunk on the street fly.
A change in licensing laws so there’s not a closing time panic and diversifying of nightlife (e.g. going to actually do something like clubbing or seeing live music rather than “going for pints”) would help too.
When they tight headlines like this, who the fuck are they talking about?
People living on the border?
I’m certainly not travelling the length of the country for booze. Who would even do that?
I moved to Belfast recently, A 20 pack of bud costs 12 pound which is about half what it costs in dublin.
I’m not going to drink anymore or any less because of the price, I’ll just save a few quid when I do..
What cheap alcohol? We have the most expensive in the EU outside Scandinavia.
Where have these arsewipes been. All my friends get their beer in norn iron.
The government thinking raising the price of alcohol will help people with alcoholism is laughable at best.
Isnt it mad that one of the argument against united Ireland is that North has cheeper alcohol and paracetamol ?
It would really need to be an all Ireland arrangement
As someone who was reared by an alcoholic MUP just feels like another thing I can’t have because someone else is an alcoholic.
I know it’s irrational but when you’re growing up in a home like that, and survive, the biggest thing that plays on your mind is time lost and by respect all the things that go with it.
I’ll be in the North later today and France later this year, and I’m not even a big drinker. I would mind slightly less if the MAP was kicking back more tax to the state to deal with the problems, but gifting it to the vendors is just shite.
Mybooze.eu
Thank me later
That headline doesn’t make sense.
The MUP has already been brought in. The headline suggests that it may be brought in in the next budget.
Spoiler…. we are already
Banning weed has sent shoppers to Europe
Since minimum pricing came in, I’ve doddled over the border a couple of times to get alcohol. That, unfortunately for local shops here, has turned into myself, my dad, brother and occassionally a friend, meeting up in newry regularly and having a cup of tea, sandwich etc in a cafe whilst we do a proper full shop.
​
So the only things we really buy locally now are things like milk and bread, that we replenish fairly regularly. Between the 3 or 4 of us that go up, the best part of a grand (often more) goes out of the Republic as a result of this silly pricing strategy.
​
I do feel bad for people who aren’t near the border, but I’d still recommend people take a drive up. If you’re within 90minutes of the border, you’ll still save money, I reckon, by shopping up there instead, if you’re doing a proper shop. (we’d buy about 2 weeks of shopping at a time).