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23rd, 2.50 pints?

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  • 21-09-2010 1:34pm
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    judas101
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    Anyone know if there's 2.50 pints for 'Arthurs day' this year?


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    MickShamrock
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    Was wondering the same thing.


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    mobby
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    €2.51 Actually :D


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    RandolphEsq
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    No I'm fairly sure they won't be €2.50/1


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    -gilly-09-
    Registered Users Posts: 562 ✭✭✭-gilly-09-


    2.50 pints.:D Where?


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    Galadriel
    Registered Users Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭Galadriel


    judas101 wrote: »
    Anyone know if there's 2.50 pints for 'Arthurs day' this year?

    I bought a ticket for the Foggy Dew last year, no pints for €2.50 at all :mad: was nearly €5 a pint all night!!


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    admiralofthefleet
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    might be worth chcking out the restaurant royale on stephen street


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    Jev/N
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    Doubtful, some do have cheaper pints for a few hours but most of the places I was in were charging full-whack


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    Degsy
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    Scabby bastards..you'd think it would kill them to show a bit of goodwill towards the customers.


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    bullpost
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    So in the middle of a major recession when the pubs are half empty , we are scammed by a marketing exercise by a brewery and end up paying an admission price to a pub :eek:

    Bloody hell - How gullible are we?
    Galadriel wrote: »
    I bought a ticket for the Foggy Dew last year, no pints for €2.50 at all :mad: was nearly €5 a pint all night!!


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    eoferrall
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    bullpost wrote: »
    So in the middle of a major recession when the pubs are half empty , we are scammed by a marketing exercise by a brewery and end up paying an admission price to a pub :eek:

    Bloody hell - How gullible are we?

    You think the bands do it for free?


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    bohsfan
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    I believe last year that Diageo gave some pubs that sold a lot of Guinness a certain amount of free kegs. Some pubs used them to run 'Pints for 2.50' offers, some gave away free pints to all, others just to regulars. And then some of them just sold them as normal!


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    Oliver1985
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    Most good pubs get a barrel or 2 free for the day and a lot of them dont give out the free drink and sell it at normal price FACT!!! :mad:


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    AnonoBoy
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    Some pubs last year charged more than they usually do for Guinness on Arthur's Day.

    Devitt's on Camden Street I'm looking at you! :mad:


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    Oliver1985
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    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Some pubs last year charged more than they usually do for Guinness on Arthur's Day.

    Devitt's on Camden Street I'm looking at you! :mad:

    Thats actually shocking!!


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    DecentBee
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    Oliver1985 wrote: »
    Thats actually shocking!!

    Yes, it goes completely against the spirit of the 'holiday' :rolleyes:


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    Lux23
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    Im going to the Palace of all places and there is one free pint per customer for the actual toast. Im looking forward to it anyway, should be way more people out on a Thursday than there are normally.


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    RandolphEsq
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    After parading this day as a big occassion to get pissed on Guinness, the least the shower of scumbag publican's and Diageo goons can do is offer special prices for the day.
    Patronising arseholes


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    tuxy
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    Damn you guys got a bad deal last year. Here in Thurles I got 6/7 free pints by moving around to different pubs.


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    sron
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    DecentBee wrote: »
    Yes, it goes completely against the spirit of the 'holiday' :rolleyes:

    Perhaps in time Arthur's Day will overtake Valentine's Day as the preeminent holiday of exploitative marketing.


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    Ramza
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    AFAIK some places do get kegs for free and are meant to sell cheaper/or for free. I could be completely wrong though. Local at home did it the last year (not sure about times before that). 2.50 a pint is still grand ^^


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    Chaotic_Forces
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    Common sense: go to clubs that have 2/3/4 euro drinks and get your pints there.


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    Ramza
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    I would only for the fact that the Guinness in most if not all nightclubs is dire


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    Chaotic_Forces
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    Ramza wrote: »
    I would only for the fact that the Guinness in most if not all nightclubs is dire

    It's not too bad in Fibber's on Parnelly Street.


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    Jumbo156
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    Harry Byrnes has pints for €2.51 from 5.30pm to 6.30pm + music + BBQ all night.


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    AnonoBoy
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    tuxy wrote: »
    Damn you guys got a bad deal last year. Here in Thurles I got 6/7 free pints by moving around to different pubs.

    Yeah but you have to live in Thurles the rest of the year so it evens out. ;)


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    bullpost
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    Not at all - Naively I would have expected Diageo to foot the bill - not the punters.

    It is after all a huge marketing exercise for them.
    eoferrall wrote: »
    You think the bands do it for free?


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