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Talk about the publican party. Drinks companies must call time on drink price hikes for 2007 - Kelleher.
They should freeze the print of the pint at current levels so that publicans will not need to increase their prices to the consumer next year.
Ah the poor publicans, I don’t see any press releases calling for ice cream manufactures freeze their prices so ice cream sellers don’t have to increase their prices.
It’s vital that we protect both consumers and publicans, particularly rural publicans who make as little as 30 cent on the price of the pint.
Why the Hell is it vital we protect publicans will someone please explain? They have done it before in direct opposition to the needs of the people sorry consumers over the cafe bars. This not the first time Fianna Fail have attacked the drinks industry for stopping the rise while they themselves could easily have reduced excise if they wanted to.
God bless the free market, eh?
I have practically zero sympathy for publicans… probably because the ones near me (in Dublin) are hardly going poor.
They’ll moan whenever they get the chance, but when they’re asked to cut profits slightly they blank refuse. A drop in sales is never their fault; remember when they said they’d seen a drop in sales after the smoking ban, but failed to point out that the drop was part of a 7-year trend that had existed before the ban was even dreamt up?
Sorry, but there are enough pubs in Ireland, and while a few closures would be bad for the individual I don’t see what damage it’ll do to the country as a whole. We can’t go dictating to companies and manufacturers how to run their businesses, unless we want to take up a Soviet Russia model.