Wetherspoons defends charging Cork punters €1 more for a pint of their own stout

British pub chain JD Wetherspoons has defended charging Cork punters more for a pint of the city’s famous Beamish stout than in two of its bars in the capital.

And it has warned that price hikes are on the way for its first two Irish bars to bring them into line with its newest outlets.

Customers of its newest Irish bar, the €3.75m Linen Weaver which opened on Cork’s Paul Street Plaza this week, have to fork out €1 more for Beamish, which is brewed 550 steps away, than punters of its first Irish bars, The Three Tun Tavern in Blackrock, Dublin, and The Forty Foot in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.