Late-night pharmacy openings under threat 

Pharmacies are ending their late-night services and reducing their weekend opening hours due to the financial pressures they currently face, the IPU has warned

Irish Pharmacy Union president Dermot Twomey

Pharmacies are increasingly ending their late-night services and are also reducing their weekend opening hours due to the financial pressures they currently face, the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) has warned.

Phelan’s Pharmacy chain, which has offered late-night hours in Cork since 1991, is among those that are ending the service. While still opening every day, it has reduced hours meaning, for example, the St Patrick’s street branch now closes at 7pm instead of 10pm.