Irish pub owners ask English university to uncover why their business is failing

"It's the economy,stupid." Merefalow,CitizenWhy your comments make since,Stevestar not so much.

i wouldnt normally resort to throwing insults back at truly ignorant people but i will make an exception with you steven star,you are obviously a first class 24 carrot dickhead,if you want to know why there is a bias towards the british in some articles,educate your self by reading irish history,secondly there was nothing anti british in my piece about btitish students coming to ireland to study why irish pubs are failing,it was just the whole crazy waste of time for what is blindingly obvious,it would be more advantageous if they came to study irish history then perhaphs they would be more informed of their countries part in Irelands tragic past and we wouldnt have to suffer ill informed and stupid comments from people like you.

@@@merefalow | Feb 09, 2013, 10:47 AM EST WHAT AN IGNORANT COMMENT ... ONLY AN AMERICAN COULD MAKE A COMMENT LIKE THAT ... MANY IRISH PEOPLE GOTO ENGLAND TO STUDY IN THEIR UNIVERSITIES AND VICE VERSA .. WHY ALL THIS HATRED FOR THE BRITISH ??? I THINK THE REAL PROBLEM ON HERE IS THE AMERICAN HATRED TOWARDS THE BRITITS AND NOT THE IRISH DISLIKING THE BRITISH PEOPLE ..... IF I WAS TO PICK OUT MOST OF THE NASTY COMMENTS ON HERE TOWARDS THE BRITISH IM SURE YOU WOULD FIND THEY ARE POSTED BY AMERICANS AND NOT IRISH PEOPLE.

@@@merefalow | Feb 09, 2013, 10:47 AM EST WHAT AN IGNORANT COMMENT ... ONLY AN AMERICAN COULD MAKE A COMMENT LIKE THAT ... MANY IRISH PEOPLE GOTO ENGLAND TO STUDY IN THEIR UNIVERSITIES AND VICE VERSA .. WHY ALL THIS HATRED FOR THE BRITISH ??? I THINK THE REAL PROBLEM ON HERE IS THE AMERICAN HATRED TOWARDS THE BRITITS AND NOT THE IRISH DISLIKING THE BRITISH PEOPLE ..... IF I WAS TO PICK OUT MOST OF THE NASTY COMMENTS ON HERE TOWARDS THE BRITISH IM SURE YOU WOULD FIND THEY ARE POSTED BY AMERICANS AND NOT IRISH PEOPLE ...........

Why waste money? The pubs are too expensive, so bring the prices down. Simples. There are probably too many of them for the population though.

This may be the first step in putting together an American led corporation that will operate rural pubs, on a strict control basis, with a McDonald's next door as part of the franchise. The corporation will, of course, get special tax concessions and also get the local governments to at least partially fund the construction costs.

brilliant,no wonder the world is in a mess if irish publicans are funding british universitys to find out why they are going broke,its no mystery watson,you dont have to be einstein,because the brit pubs are going under at the same rate,reason ,no 1 greedy brewers,not so much the publicans ,not allowing them enough of the profit which is exorbitant,2 greedy taxation by government,3,the smoking ban,4 especially for country pubs,percy plod and his bloody breathalyser if you have had a couple of pints,and i mean a couple.5,its just to expensive when most people are just surviving,it doesnt take a years study funded by the taxpayer to realise what is blindingly obvious.