Michael Moynihan: Must Cork’s pubs serve less alcohol in the future to survive?

Non-alcoholic beer sales have gone through the roof in recent years

‘Over the years quite a few licensed premises your columnist knows have pivoted to food, games, golf outings, live sports, and other measures to attract and keep customers.’

One of the first columns I inflicted on readers here revolved around an old Joyce line.

There was a time when, as the great man said, a “good puzzle would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub”. I repurposed this with a view to Cork and its coffee shops, given that the powers that be wouldn’t accept my alternative proposal (“great craic would be to cross Cork entering every pub you passed”).