Pubs are lowering prices to draw the punters in

WHEN it comes to the price of a pint in Ireland, size matters — the smaller, the better.

From Valentia to Malin Head, Carnsore Point to Killybegs, publicans are falling over one another (well, their customers are, anyway) to produce the cheapest tipple in these straitened times.

The battle is on to keep the customers satisfied in the nation’s 5,500 pubs.