Changing Ireland: Time called on 1,477 pubs

Great change does indeed come dropping slow. The scale of that change may not be obvious immediately, but an inevitable day of reckoning can bring sobering news. And so it is with the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland’s pre-budget submission.

That document records that pubs have closed at the rate of more than two a week for 12 years and that there were 1,477 fewer pubs in Ireland last year than in 2005, a 17.1% drop in businesses.