Supermarket drink sales.
Allright - so in the 17 days we were in Ireland, I was in a supermarket on 3 of them (that’s 17% of the days!) on or around 10pm, when they called out “we have to stop serving alcohol at 10pm, please bring your purchases to the checkout now”. Thank you VFI, and intoxicating liquor act (2008). Was this supposed to stop binge drinking? Because I saw people buying a case of beer “in case they wanted one or two after the pub”…epic fail, in my opinion.
Still, at least now I can go to safeway at 1:55am and buy beer or wine, although thanks to the Washington state Liquor Board, nothing stronger after 9pm…at least the off-sales booze monopoly here is run by the state, not the publicans..