Pub can offer loyalty card for drinking

A pub will be able to operate a loyalty card service for its customers, despite strong opposition from gardaí and calls from other vintners to block such schemes.

Michael Cambridge, who runs O’Dwyer’s pub in Kanturk, in north Cork, applied for a three-year lease for Molly’s bar, at no 53, McCurtain Hill, in Clonakilty.

He said he would operate a loyalty card scheme there and that it was no different from similar promotions by supermarkets.