# Publicans

This year

2023

# Price of a Pint

'We don't need it. People are under a lot of pressure': Pubs decry plans to hike price of pints

One publican in Co Galway told The Journal that rising costs is impacting the trade in rural Ireland.

22.3k

Jul 20th 2023, 2:51 PM

# Guinness

Diageo is raising the price of a pint of Guinness by 12 cent from February

The company said the increase is due to “significant inflation in input costs across our operations”.

28.4k

Jan 10th 2023, 3:25 PM

Last year

2022

# Heineken

Heineken to hike keg prices by 9% due to 'significant' rise in production costs

The increase is equivalent to a 17 cent rise in the price of a pint, before VAT.

28.9k

Updated

Nov 10th 2022, 5:29 PM

# high costs

Publicans warn of 'huge threat' due to 'doubling and tripling' of energy bills

Publicans in Ireland are worried as their UK counterparts warn of possible closures.

28.9k

Updated

Aug 30th 2022, 2:29 PM

All time

# reopening plans

Taoiseach fails to give clarity to publicans on whether €9 meal rule will be scrapped for Summer 2021

The LVA also wants an end to the distinction between ‘wet’ pubs and venues serving food.

61.1k

Updated

Mar 23rd 2021, 5:57 PM

# Pubs vs FBD

Higher premiums and Central Bank probes: Landmark case by pubs against FBD could have far-reaching implications

It’s too early to say but experts believe the costs could eventually be passed onto consumers.

25.9k

Feb 6th 2021, 7:00 AM

# High Court

'Vindicated': Pub owners react after landmark court ruling orders FBD Insurance to pay out over Covid losses

The outcome of the case affects claims made by some 1,000 Irish pubs and restaurants against insurers.

89.3k

108

Updated

Feb 5th 2021, 1:37 PM

# time please

Taoiseach: 'There's nothing I would like better right now than a pint in a rural pub in the west of Ireland'

Rural TDs criticised the Taoiseach for keeping ‘wet’ pubs closed.

32.4k

Dec 2nd 2020, 5:31 PM

# Pubs

Supports in Budget will bring 'some degree of confidence' to publicans, Vintners Federation says

Paschal Donohoe announced the various reliefs for the hospitality sector today.

16.8k

Oct 13th 2020, 4:30 PM

# Vintners

Publicans in Dublin urge government to 'stick with its decision' on 21 September re-opening date

The Licenced Vintners Association said today that publicans in Dublin and around the country deserve the chance to re-open.

41.9k

Sep 14th 2020, 8:22 AM

# wet pubs

'There's a lot riding on this. There was a pub here before me. I want there to be one here after me too'

Pubs have been closed for six months. They’re hoping the 21st September date isn’t another false dawn.

31.4k

Sep 12th 2020, 6:30 AM

# SUBSTANTIAL MEAL

Publicans blast 'crazy' new rule requiring details of food orders to be kept for 28 days

One Fianna Fáil TD condemned the new rules as ‘authoritarian’.

51.6k

142

Updated

Sep 3rd 2020, 7:55 PM

# pubs reopening

Total of five Covid outbreaks in pubs reported during pandemic

There is a push to get pubs open next month.

65.8k

Sep 3rd 2020, 11:47 AM

# Phase Three

Over 100 days on from shutting their doors, just under half of Ireland's pubs are geared up for re-opening

In Dublin, vintners estimate around 50-60% of pubs will re-open from Monday. For the rest of that country, that number is closer to 40%.

46.0k

Jun 25th 2020, 12:05 AM

# social distancing

Taoiseach dismisses idea that €1 should be added the price of a pint when pubs reopen

The Taoiseach said he hopes pubs can open again before a vaccine is found.

72.6k

115

Apr 20th 2020, 3:59 PM

# Pubs

Pubs not opening until Covid-19 vaccine is found would be 'nightmare scenario', publican reps say

All pubs were ordered to shut last month as restrictions were implemented by the government.

115k

163

Apr 19th 2020, 7:12 PM

# Cheers

Most Dublin pubs expect to grow in 2019 as gin trend continues, but they're worried about Brexit

Publicans are also concerned about the impact of the recent increase in VAT.

16.0k

Mar 19th 2019, 9:16 AM

# Stout argument

Danny Healy Rae says people who eat big meals and drive are a 'danger on the roads'

RSA boss Moyagh Murdock is before an Oireachtas joint committee today.

36.0k

133

May 17th 2017, 1:47 PM

# Booze Ban

Publicans say Good Friday alcohol ban has no place in a modern Ireland

Publicans have made a fresh appeal for the ban on selling alcohol on Good Friday to be lifted.

20.3k

140

Feb 6th 2017, 6:00 PM

# on the dry

Publicans say 'archaic' Good Friday alcohol ban should be lifted ahead of 1916 centenary

They say extra tourists will be in Ireland for the centenary, as well as the Ireland vs Switzerland game.

18.3k

149

Jan 18th 2016, 11:34 AM

# behind the bar

Politicians who own pubs tell us what has gone wrong for rural Ireland

Owning a pub and being in Leinster House – seeing the demise of rural Ireland from the outside and the inside.

44.0k

110

Apr 26th 2015, 8:30 PM

# Compromise

Publicans and residents call for five concerts to go ahead - but Labour say they have a solution

The political party has suggested that three concerts should go ahead this year and the final two next year.

50.3k

130

Jul 6th 2014, 4:21 PM

# Sponsorship

Publicans want 'lid levy' to replace losses from alcohol sports sponsorship ban

Vintners say a 15 per cent levy on off-licence sales would raise over €200 million to replace funding lost by banning alcohol companies from sponsoring sports events.

11.9k

Jul 30th 2013, 7:30 AM

Voices

Column: Healy-Rae’s drink-driving vote is insulting to people who’ve lost loved ones

Kerry Counsellor Danny Healy-Rae should have had to look into the eyes a bereaved family member before he tabled his drink driving proposal, writes Christina Donnelly, whose son was killed by a drunk driver in 2009.

110

Jan 26th 2013, 7:00 PM

# rural ireland

Government dismisses Healy-Rae's bid to relax drink-driving limit in rural areas

Responding to the Department of Transport’s dismissal of his idea, Kerry county councillor Danny Healy-Rae told TheJournal.ie: “We’ll see about that.”

13.5k

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Jan 22nd 2013, 6:00 PM

# Budget 2012

Winners and losers of Budget 2012: In pictures

There was plenty at stake in the austere Budget presented by Brendan Howlin and Michael Noonan over the past two days. This slideshow will fill you in…

4.8k

Dec 7th 2011, 7:35 AM