# Pints
This year
2023
'Brexit pubs guarantee' and free childcare, what was in the UK's Budget?
The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer has frozen the duty on draught pints and promised up to 30 hours per week of free childcare for eligible households.
Last year
2022
FactCheck: Did the EU ban crown symbols from appearing on pint glasses in the UK?
The Mail on Sunday made the claim yesterday.
All time
Dáil bar to reopen for first time since last year
The two bars in Leinster House have been closed for much of the pandemic.
Pubs 'extremely happy' with 7 June outdoor opening but some restaurateurs still 'frustrated'
Restaurant owners are unhappy that hotels can serve food indoors before them.
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.
Two-metre social distancing rule could be reduced to one metre for pubs and restaurants opening this month
Restaurants and pubs which serve food are due to repen at the end of June.
Poll: Will you go to a pub/restaurant when they're permitted to open on 29 June?
The government announced the acceleration of the plan to re-open Ireland yesterday.
Pubs serving food can reopen on 29 June but with table service only
All other pubs can reopen on 20 July – three weeks earlier than originally planned.
Quiz: Look at these old photos of Dublin - what pub stands there today?
You’d miss pints, wouldn’t you?
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.
Dáil bar: Over €13k more spent on drinks so far in 2019 compared to same period last year
Twice as much was spent in February 2019 than the same month last year.
Here's how many thousands of pints of Guinness were sold in the Dáil bar this year
Who was it necking the shot?
Poll: Will you go to the pub this Good Friday?
After 91 years, Irish people will be legally allowed buy a pint in a pub on Good Friday.
Taoiseach says politicians should settle their Dáil bar tab or have it taken from their salaries
The unpaid tabs at the Dáil bar and restaurant amount to €5,000.
A bar in Meath has the perfect solution for when you leave your drink to go to the jacks
“Gone to pee, leave my drink alone.”
'I'm a rebel': The band of Brexiteers who change metric signs after sundown
The group sticks card onto street signs to give distance in yards instead of metres.
12 crimes against the pint that should be punishable by law
Would you put a Flake in that there for me now?
One in four farmers said they have driven home after drinking at least three pints
The Irish Examiner and ICMSA poll finds that 23% admitted to drink driving in the last six months.
12 things every Irish person says during midweek pints
“I have exactly 3 hours and 13 minutes of sleep.”
These pubs are offering free pints for the Ireland match on Monday*
On the condition that we actually score, mostly.
These pubs are offering free pints for the Ireland match on Monday*
On the condition that we actually score, mostly.
A definitive ranking of the nights of the week to go for pints, from worst to best
Let us guide your week.
