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kiknkorea
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 Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:41 pm Post subject: Ireland's Pub Industry Reeling |
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DUBLIN (Reuters) � Ireland's famous pubs and pints are reeling from their worst year yet, a report published on Monday found -- and the really bad news is it does not guarantee an end to drink-related social and health problems.
Against the backdrop of deep recession and unemployment, Ireland's per capital alcohol consumption fell by 9.6 percent in 2009 and is now 21 percent below an all-time peak in 2001 when Ireland's economy was booming.
"It was the worst year for our industry in living memory," Kieran Tobin, chairman of the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland (DIGI), told a news conference in a central Dublin pub.
Pubs have been closing at the rate of around one a day, he said, and 15,000 jobs had been lost across the sector over the last 18 months. |
Full story-
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100322/od_nm/us_ireland_drinks_odd
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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It's enough to drive one to drink.
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Same thing's happening in the UK. I welcome the news, as pubs that go out of business can be converted into much-needed housing. |
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blade
Joined: 30 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
| Same thing's happening in the UK. I welcome the news, as pubs that go out of business can be converted into much-needed housing. |
Much needed housing? Ireland has like a two year supply of vacant houses and you think we need even more? |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:46 am Post subject: |
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Another reason the World Cup qualifier loss was so devastating - the pubs would have been packed this summer!
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=700631&cc=4716
"With the Irish economy in meltdown and everyone throughout the country feeling the financial pinch, the prospect of a World Cup summer in 2010 would have been the ideal tonic and yet it is lucky France who ended that dream as the bundled their way to South Africa by foul means." |
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