Say No to Diageo! : A Call to Action on Guinness’ Price Hikes
Students,
I am appalled and insulted at the recent price hikes by Diageo amounting to no more than 20 cent on the already rapidly rising price of a pint.
If I wasn’t already being bittered and barred down by the electric, the gas and the heating—which is, I have been recently informed, a separate bill entirely—I am now being viscerally encroached on by the ugly, and at times conniving, faceless mass of the liquor industry for my sultry empty pockets. Absolute trifling waffle pitted by Big Beer to sell me more water apparently, while at the same time making me sh*te craic.
The price of a pint in Doyles Pub on College Street is already €7.20 and €7.70 during late hours. The current pint price inflation rate is now 4%. A first year will see a rise to €8.50/€9 on their graduation night while a man in 10 years will be paying €11 a pint. A scandal no X-Lite sponsorship no matter HOW MANY CANS may ever mend.
How can this not be an attack on me? Or at least on the hard drinking student body who I know work just as much as they play! Bohemian college drinking is older than most universities and any attempt made on that is an attempt made on us all. Not just as students, but as an institution!
I am so much in my right mind that I demand TCD SU/AMLCT take the finger out and organise a march right down to St James Gate for a good old fashioned sit in around the rock atop which Guinness built their church.
I find this a matter of most urgency and insist the needs and worries of the student body are met at once.
Le meas,
A drinker