Minimum Alcohol pricing to be signed into Law

Oh ok. I get that I have been on that side far more often than being able to afford to fk about.

Im more thinking about people who are now boasting about putting substantial time and logistics into getting some cheap cans from the UK.

Well listening to all the big hard lads on here it will be widespread especially seeing as they are gonna boycott the pubs.

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I go up north once or twice a year anyway. I'll just make sure to bring back what I need for a few months.

Go go to see the bird because it doesn't exist where you are and every match is a unique event in the story of the season.

You don't travel because seeing the bird is €1 cheaper than seeing the bird down the road from your house

I doubt anyone is going to go out of their way to save a euro I saw people in the Christmas rush abandoning trollies with the euro in them rather than walk down the car park to return them and get it back 🙂

Everyone is different and if they want to go to NI to save a few bob good luck to them.

If they happen to be up there anyway even better.

People travel all the time to save a few euros or everyone would shop in their closest shop.

People were going up north from Dublin for appliances when argos uk worked out much cheaper than here. Ditto for medicines.

You are going to be saving more than 1 euro per item it you drink wine / sparkling / fortifieds (especially on a 25 percent off deal) or spirits.

I guess it's hard to know, but I'd have thought it's more likely that the own brands like that will disappear for the most part.

As things stand, it's probably not going to affect me too much, assuming price differentiation doesn't come into play. The Crafty/ Solas Rye River beers are generally the cheapest of my regular purchases and they're above MUP.

I was in the North a couple of times for events last year - I didn't bother stopping for any shopping, but would imagine I'll be hit up for orders this year, particularly the wine. My cousins an hour or so away from Enniskillen on the southern side of the border regularly head to asda for a "family shop" as it is.

I wouldn't dismiss it at certain times of the year - I saw some serious "drink" trollies in tesco just before christmas, when awareness of mup was low. It'd be worth their while even from here in Wicklow for €20 a slab saving plus the spirits.

Won't really affect any beers I buy bar supermarket lagers, with Rheinbacher being the most obvious and annoying casualty, if it even survives this which I assume it won't. The other two low-priced lagers I like don't seem to be too badly affected, as they're not sold in multipacks, Tesco Manislav (up 50c to 2 euro) and Aldi Rossini (unchanged at 1.99).

Still an extremely retrograde and agenda-driven piece of legislation though.

It's the kind of snide gaslighting that's made the AH thread so unpleasant. Constant comments about people being obsessed with alcohol, presumably from people that perhaps themselves have some kind of undeclared agenda re: alcohol.

Alcohol for me is a part of a monthly grocery spend. If I I can combine an occasional trip to the North and save myself money on my annual household spend, why the hell shouldn't I do it?

Nice one. I go to the North a few times a year to visit friends (at least pre-Covid) and this is something I should have thought of before.

I guess now that my petty and raving alcoholic desire for a handful of beers a week is now firmly ensconced at my mental steering wheel, I should check this out.