Publicans admit soft drink rip-off

PUBLICANS admit they are ripping off customers with exorbitant prices for soft drinks.

The Dublin-based Licensed Vintners Association (LVA) will contact its 700 members in the coming days to ask them to cut the prices they charge for minerals and bottled water.

National organisation, the Vintners Federation of Ireland (VFI), with 6,000 members outside the capital, says it also intends addressing the issue which it accepts is a “problem”.