The Price of The Pint, Ballindine, Co. Mayo, Ireland 1983
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- Customers in a Ballindine pub are happy to drink metric pints to keep the cost of their favourite tipple under a pound.
Drinkers were celebrating across the country as the price of a pint avoided a hike in the latest budget announcement. At the Robin’s Nest pub in Ballindine, County Mayo, there was double cause for celebration.
Not only was the booze not being taxed this time around but now pub owner Paddy O’Connor will be able to continue to put a decent sized drink into his customer’s hands for under a pound.
What Paddy has done is to switch from serving pints at £1.03 each to half litres at 93p each.
You get roughly 7/8 of a pint and you save 10p a time.
Psychologically, customers seem far happier about not having to break the second pound for a pint.
Paddy O’Connor introduced the initiative following customer complaints about the price of a pint breaking the one pound mark. Under the new system, you can have five half litres where you can only have four pints.
Proper litre and half-litre glasses are on order from France. So even if their drink falls a little short of a pint, customers at The Robin’s Nest are enjoying the pleasure of a drink for under a pound.
Speaking to RTÉ News, customers were enthusiastic about the new initiative.
"I think it’s the best thing that’s happened in ages."
The initiative is also praised by Guinness Area Manager Bob Hackett.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 10 February 1983. The reporter is Jim Fahy. - Zábava
Its still my local, go there three times a week, he is now selling the beer out of egg cups. Still only a euro though.
😂😂😂
Thimbles next!
I went to a bar in the Czech Rep they had Guinness draughts. Thought I'd try a drop. A drop is all I got. 89kc about 3 pound 50 for 0.25 of a litre. Barman thought it crazy too. Went back to Czech lager for 1 pound 50 for half a litre.
great pub back in the day .Paddy and Maureen great people.Some old friends of mine shown here that have passed away ,may they rest in peace.
Where's the 41 years gone?
I wish I could time travel. I would go back and have a pint with these lads.
They weren't serving pints. That's literally what the article was about.
Brings back memories of a less complicated world we had little to worry about then. I remember my own father swearing under every saints name he’d give it up if it went up another penny.
I once as a young man of 12 years old drove 12 wild cattle very early one morning and on my own to Ballindibne fair, i stayed around most of the day trying to keep those animals together and later walked them back for the owner whom I met at the fair as he walked around with a large meat sandwich and a pint of Guinness, I had no money so I did not eat all that long morning, day and until I got back to my home later that night, Yet I never blamed the owner as I know him to be a kindly man but he had forgotten about me, I never felt hunger in all my life, and yet that was only for a very short time, millions of people all over the world go to bed hunger because of lack of food
You are absolutely off your nut. I love reading your comments
@jamesbradshaw3389 you really need to write a book about your memoirs. Truly . Thankyou for your balanced thoughts you really remind me of my Dad, he was a good man too x
@@janet4021Thank you Janet that is very generous and kind of you to say, I would not be able to write a book as my stories are mostly very short plus as you can see I do not write very well because of being dyslexic. Thank you again and I wish you all the very best
@@jamesbradshaw3389i wish you all the very best too James, I work in social care please don't ever apologise for dyslexia it makes you unique x You write that book...short stories because you make a lot of us smile and laugh in the kindest way x
Good man James
God be with the days..Had three pints last night for just under 20 euro..20 euro would have put me in hospital back then😄
My first trip to Ireland in 1992, a pint of Guinness was 1.80 in Dublin and even less in the country pubs...I was thrilled because a draft Guinness back home in the U.S. was $6 for an American pint.
Where in America were you paying $6 for a pint in 1992? It wasn't even anywhere near that when I lived in NYC in 2012.
I bet they all drove home happy as Larry! 😜
😂 those were the days,
The cars were much stronger in those days 😂
Very few places you can get a pint for less than a 5 euro note ❤
NYC 10 dollars.
HANOI- 80 CENTS😂
Great wee craic in Ballindine. Good man Eugene.
Seems one sharp man that barman.
It’s a Fiver a Pint Now.
I wish I bought a pint in 1983 it would now be worth £8.00, I could really enjoy knowing how much I had saved.
Sad to see the Pub culture almost gone in rural Ireland culture change.
00:36 Rolf Harris is delighted
Is that Gerry Adams?
Gas watching The Guinness representative sloshed and talking shite 😢😢😢😢
That’s his job and very serious one too. He’s like a bishop on an ecumenical mission. Concerned about his flock
Lucky to get a pint for less than €10 nowadays in the big towns.
old working class pubs usually cheapest and best quality
BS. On average across Ireland, the price of a pint is €5 to €5.50. It may be €10 at the Westbury.
@@AndreyRubtsovRU mine: brew my own. At this point, why not?
@@BigBlack81 to each is own, sure. Social aspect seems to be a big part of it for you guys (if you are uk based that is)
@@AndreyRubtsovRU USA based and born, but yeah, social would play a part.
Simpler time's ☺️
Price of drinking is killing the pubs and many Irish pubs are closing
Loved the pints being 'built' next to him 😂
The wife has been bugging me for a couple of years now to visit Dublin and the prices are just astronomical. There is no way I'm paying 3 thousand euros for a week in Dublin. Last time I visited in the 90s it was so cheap.
Avoid Dublin. For a so called ‘capital’, it’s a disgusting, overpriced mess.
Shrinkflation!
The scans! ....Could drink f all anyway.
And the pubs still going but different name
That was the problem and still is the people of Ireland allowed this budget shit from the government 🤬🤬🤬
I wonder how much a pint is now Dublin temple bar is 10 euro a pint 😢
I see harp lager is making a big comeback in de border Countys.
It's a nice refreshing drink.
Jaysis the craic is mighty can james Bradshaw tell another story
It's clear no one knows how inflation works in the comments 😂. Maybe lay off the drink.
2:49 yikes
Alco's all.
Not at all, nobody was one back then. A few managed to be drunks..
The fuckin state of our country and pubs now
Jump to the future and in some pub in London £8.00 a pint of Guinness.