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Minimum Alcohol pricing to be signed into Law

Timistry · 2013-10-22 23:55:10

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1022/482077-public-health-alcohol-bill/ Multiple excise increases in the last few Budgets and now this... Ireland is already one of the most expensive countries in Europe for alcohol. Like many, I can appreciate the negative impacts that it has on society but these nanny state measures just will…

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#1322 28-10-2022 4:33pm
Hotblack Desiato

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By contrast, in the UK alcohol free is ten times lower than that ABV in the EU at 0.05% and below ABV. Peculiarly, if the UK were still an EU member state, ‘alcohol free’ beer produced in Ireland, may be legitimately sold in UK under the principle of mutual recognition or the ‘Cassis Principle’, whereas a domestic UK producer would be bound by the lower ‘alcohol free’ ABV requirement.
Brewdog are based in the UK and their Nanny State and Punk IPA AF are 0.5% and marketed as alcohol free. Given everything else that has been going on in the Brexit clusterfuck, the notion that they'd single out alcohol free beer regulations for urgent attention seems extremely far-fetched.

Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.

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