booze takeaway/delivery service

brianthebard

Whatever happened to that?

drunkmonkey

Outlawed like the happy pills.

brianthebard

Alter-Ego

Takeaway....An Off-Licence?

brianthebard

They used to deliver though. Those were better times, before offies closed at 10...

drunkmonkey

brianthebard wrote: »

offies closed at 10...

Alter-Ego

Gaynors offie on cork street deliver locally. Doubt galway counts as the cork street area though...

TheZohanS

Tesco and Superquinn will deliver booze if you book a delivery slot the day/night before.

alwaysadub

Don't whats for dinner do booze runs as well as food?

Order a small bag of chips or something, then barrel loads of booze!:D

mikemac

Our local off licence delivers, I've never used the service, not sure what it costs.
They have 3 drivers on the road at weekend nights.
Goes until 10pm

kraggy

Galway

www.imstarvin.ie

They'll just deliver booze if that's all you want. I've even got buckfast delivered to me

mikemac

Buckfast......you just ooze class Kraggy :cool:

I've always thought of starting up something like that as there's absolutely nothing like it round my way. Stock up on the after party staples...vodka, cider, beer, shot bottles, loadsa junk food... get word out round the local clubs and pubs, operating hours 9pm to 5am. Job done. I reckon there'd be a brave wee bit of money to be made from it! I know I'd use it anyways

saywhatyousee

Deleted User wrote: »

I've always thought of starting up something like that as there's absolutely nothing like it round my way. Stock up on the after party staples...vodka, cider, beer, shot bottles, loadsa junk food... get word out round the local clubs and pubs, operating hours 9pm to 5am. Job done. I reckon there'd be a brave wee bit of money to be made from it! I know I'd use it anyways

selling alcohol without a license?wont be long before the guards are at your door

Biggins

When did this come into effect?

MistyCheese

There's an off-license in Harold's Cross that delivers. I used to live near it.

Biggins

I still know of a local taxi firm that delivers!
First I've heard of a banning of such a service.

dreamers75

I just ordered beer 5 minutes ago?

saywhatyousee

saywhatyousee wrote: »

selling alcohol without a license?wont be long before the guards are at your door

Everything would be done properly ofcourse

My name is URL

My local off licence delivers.. well they hire a taxi company at reduced rates and get them to deliver it but it's all the one

starviewadams

Carry Out and The Laurels off licences both deliver in Clondalkin!

redout

Kellys off-license in Phibsboro deliver.

Pyr0

Murphys Off-licence in Ballymun delviers too.

gurramok

And so do Sweeneys at Harts Corner, minimum spend 80quid and charge of €7.50 per 20 bottles, yes you heard that right
http://www.sweeneyswine.ie/beer_spirits.htm

Biggins

gurramok wrote: »

And so do Sweeneys at Harts Corner, minimum spend 80quid and charge of €7.50 per 20 bottles, yes you heard that right
http://www.sweeneyswine.ie/beer_spirits.htm

...And now back to our regular broadcasting... :pac:

cherryghost

I also know of a local taxi firm that delivers.

El Weirdo

cherryghost wrote: »

I also know of a local taxi firm that delivers.

Great idea. I'm sick of having to go to the rank to wait for a taxi.

gurramok

Biggins wrote: »

...And now back to our regular broadcasting... :pac:

hehe

They must be mad if they think anyone would order stuff from them!

Did you see their regular beer prices? Talk about rip-off!

biko

This is probably unwanted advice but:
Buy extra in advance. Get a slab from lidl/aldi and put in safe place.

brianthebard

lol that's great in theory biko but would never work.

gurramok

brianthebard wrote: »

lol that's great in theory biko but would never work.

Well its nearly 10pm, if you need more beer and you're tipsy you cannot drive, the only way is go to the pub or stock up previous to getting locked

Or go the expensive way using taxi's :P

brianthebard

gurramok wrote: »

Well its nearly 10pm, if you need more beer and you're tipsy you cannot drive, the only way is go to the pub or stock up previous to getting locked

Or go the expensive way using taxi's :P

I got some booze when the rain cleared up earlier. At least the thread taught me that there are still lots of offys that deliver/get a taxi sent out around the country, haven't heard or seen any advertised in galway though which is a pity. Will continue to search.

d.anthony

Kinda on-topic

I knew a guy in Glasgow that spent near enough every night in his favourite pub, a gud 10-15 mins drive away from his house. Instead of getting a taxi home (too expensive), he would ring the chinese opposite the pub and order a home delivery and would get a lift home with the delivery man, costing him only the £1.50 they charge for the delivery!

aligator_am

AFAIK there are places in Dublin that still do this (I'm assuming that it would still be done in the main cities / towns around the country), not used it in over a year but (in Dublin) the Palmerstown House and Penny Hill pub would deliver, I think the guy who owns that whole chain of pubs do it. You need to register with them and each time they call you need to have photo I.D. but it's pretty useful if you're having a party and want top up booze.

I would have thought that it would have been a really popular thing around different parts of the country, is it difficult to get a license for this or is some sort of special publican license required or something?

yoyo

Just watched the piece there, whos that idiot complaining there are too many off licenses? And saying centras/spars/garages shouldnt be allowed get a license (which funnily enough these places are usually quite strict asking for ID I've noticed), stupidity really but its RTE so suprise suprise.
Interestingly enough if a parent ordered their shopping online via tescos/superquinn with a credit card, ordered a couple of bottles of wine with the order aswell as groceries, they are out and their 16/17 year old (which is a age I'm sure is old enough to answer the door :rolleyes:), would the delivery driver have to refuse delivery of the goods due to the alcohol being in the order? Seems rather stupid to me, If those drivers have hundreds of deliveries to make each day, I'm sure they could easily overlook that alcohol is in the bag being delivered, not sure how tesco do delivery, but I'm sure there would be some kind of "package" for each order
Also for people, like myself, who don't drive one could see how a alcohol delivery service is beneficial if lets say you are having a party or something and carrying crateloads of beer isnt feasible

Nick

00011000

just wondering if there have been any updates to the issue of delivering alcohol to people's homes.

ScumLord

TheZohan wrote: »

Tesco and Superquinn will deliver booze if you book a delivery slot the day/night before.

Ya but they won't deliver it to you at 3 in the morning along with salt and chilly king prawns like those industrious Chinese would.
They used to serve beer in my local Chinese and they'd sell it to any of their regular customers no matter what time it was, it's not like they had a license to sell it in the first place so I suppose they weren't all that worried any way. Don't sell it any more though.

00011000

your chinese actually delivers at 3am?

ScumLord

00011000 wrote: »

your chinese actually delivers at 3am?

Sorry I didn't mean to imply I own a Chinese take away. I am also not Chinese.

gaytony

my cousin runs one ,he operates from 6pm-3am and he has to make daily trips up north he cleans up on the price difference between north and south.

00011000

ScumLord wrote: »

Ya but they won't deliver it to you at 3 in the morning along with salt and chilly king prawns like those industrious Chinese would.
They used to serve beer in my local Chinese and they'd sell it to any of their regular customers no matter what time it was, it's not like they had a license to sell it in the first place so I suppose they weren't all that worried any way. Don't sell it any more though.

ScumLord wrote: »

Sorry I didn't mean to imply I own a Chinese take away. I am also not Chinese.

I didn't mean to imply that you were Chinese or ran a Chinese takeaway. Just wondering whether your Local Chinese actually delivers til 3am

00011000

gaytony wrote: »

my cousin runs one ,he operates from 6pm-3am and he has to make daily trips up north he cleans up on the price difference between north and south.

So he's selling drink without a license, outside of legal operating hours, without paying taxes? clever man.

senordingdong

Two offos I used to order off of, and Tesco too, still deliver.

00011000

senordingdong wrote: »

Two offos I used to order off of, and Tesco too, still deliver.

That's cool. I don't think there will ever be legislation against the delivery of alcohol in Ireland. They should legislate for safe, taxable, responsible delivery of alcohol. I propose simply demanding for delivery drivers to ask for ID and allowing for C.O.D.

NoHornJan

Brew your own beer @ about 20 to 25 cents a pint.
Home made wine about a €uro a bottle. Red, white or rose.
Spirits a little more difficult and illegal to distil. Havn't gone there yet.
For mixers get a Sodastream and concentrates, lasts for ages.
2 or 3 weeks then bring on the party.

senordingdong

00011000 wrote: »

That's cool. I don't think there will ever be legislation against the delivery of alcohol in Ireland. They should legislate for safe, taxable, responsible delivery of alcohol. I propose simply demanding for delivery drivers to ask for ID and allowing for C.O.D.

I'm pretty sure the rules already call for that.

Miguel_Sanchez

senordingdong wrote: »

I'm pretty sure the rules already call for that.

They do.

Tesco make it clear on their website that a person over 18 must be there to receive the order if it contains alcohol and they will ask for ID.

There used to be a delivery service in Dublin that would deliver at any hour of the night, you paid online and because the transaction went through in Spain they technically were selling you the alcohol there so Irish regulations didn't apply. (Or at least that was the theory)

I'm not sure if they're still running, I'd say the Gardai took a dim view of it.

Pdfile

NoHornJan wrote: »

Brew your own beer @ about 20 to 25 cents a pint.
Home made wine about a €uro a bottle. Red, white or rose.
Spirits a little more difficult and illegal to distil. Havn't gone there yet.
For mixers get a Sodastream and concentrates, lasts for ages.
2 or 3 weeks then bring on the party.

so can make bath tub rum and have home made sunny D ??


DEADLY! :eek:

gaytony

00011000 wrote: »

clever man.

6 years in , never been caught

AnonoBoy

gaytony wrote: »

6 years in , never been caught

Famous last words gaytony, famous last words........


Horatio is on the case!

Galway K9

gaytony wrote: »

00011000 wrote: »

clever man.

6 years in , never been caught

4fm exposed a guy like this last night and on air and to minors lol 6 years no more lol