TDs bid farewell to Dáil with sales of Guinness rising 12%

In the home of the government, they fancy the black stuff.

Sales of Guinness at the Dáil bar last year jumped by 12%, with TDs and their friends downing 273 pints of the black stuff alone on the busiest night that coincided with the Dáil’s main break-up night before Christmas, on December 16.

Cut-price beer at the Dáil bar is one of the perks for those successful candidates currently criss crossing constituencies in the general election campaign.