Pricing top factor keeping punters out of their locals
But a survey of pub-goers show that cheaper booze is the biggest thing that would reverse the fall in visits to their locals.
The online poll among 500 Irish people shows that almost two-thirds are going to the pub less than they did two years ago and the same number are less likely now to go for a drink midweek. They are also spending and drinking less when they do go, mostly because of falling incomes, with half of those surveyed blaming the cost of food and drink on their changing habits.
