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Publicans lobby suggests closing the off-licenses

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    #32
    fergiesfolly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    I think the public should boycott VFI pubs when they're allows reopen.

    And I'll lose what little faith I have left in this government ( very very little left) if they start taking public health advice from an organisation designed to sell the most abused drug in Irish society.


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    #33
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,557 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Deleted User wrote: »
    25% off wine in Sainsbury Newry this weekend. ‘Tis cheaper always, anyway. Happy days

    Youd want to be getting a fair bit to make it worthwhile


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    #34
    Ohmeha
    Registered Users Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭Ohmeha


    Won't be long before Vintners calls for supermarkets/takeaways to be shut so the population can only eat meals in their pubs in a 'safe and controlled environment'


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    #35
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 9,032 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    Youd want to be getting a fair bit to make it worthwhile

    Not if you live in Dundalk.


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    #36
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    walshb wrote: »
    We're suffering, you better be suffering!!!!!
    If we can't get our hands on your money, we will make sure nobody else can either.


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    #37
    Galwayguy35
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    If the Government give heed to this idea then they really have lost the plot.

    The VFI need to keep their future customers on side for when they do re open, not piss them off by trying to ban people buying reasonably priced booze at the offie.


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    #38
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Sooo glad I don't drink anymore, if I did I think I would be spitting nails at the thought of those greasy cnuts couching their venality in concern for public health! You only have to go to a bar in almost any other country to realise how much they and their pocket politicians have been fcuking the punters up the ass without so much as a greasing or reach around for years! See! I'm so much more sanguine now!


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    #39
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,663 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    If the Government give heed to this idea then they really have lost the plot.

    The VFI need to keep their future customers on side for when they do re open, not piss them off by trying to ban people buying reasonably priced booze at the offie.

    The thing is not all pubs are signed and paid up members of the VFI. For some of those that are they display a VFI sticker in their window but equally there would be pubs that are members of the VFI but they keep it quiet and dont display the sticker because they know the VFI name is toxic to their customers.

    Ive heard rumours before in towns where a new publican comes into the market if he tries undercutting prices there will be a visit from the local VFI reps informing him of how things work around there. They've always been known as quite a militant union, they will protect their patch at all costs even if that means coming out with crazy ideas like closing the off licenses.


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    #40
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users Posts: 7,419 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    Nice try, narc
    Where's the narc?


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    #41
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,663 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    They're at it again
    The Vintners’ Federation of Ireland tweeted: “We all have a duty to behave responsibly.

    “Scenes last night in Killarney hugely upsetting for everyone following the guidelines and for publicans desperate to open.”

    A Twitter page that represents pubs in Co Kerry posted: “Disgusted for all law-abiding publicans to see scenes like this in Killarney last night, especially while the majority of pubs are still shut down.

    “Close down the business that sold them the takeaway pints immediately and enforce the new garda laws.”
    https://www.thejournal.ie/killarney-pubs-social-media-footage-5190388-Aug2020/


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