Pint of plain served at your front door!

From this week’s Galway City Tribune – Delivery slots for fresh pints of Guinness and Heineken delivered to your door from Monroe’s Pintman Van have completely sold out for the long weekend.

The Dial-a-Pint service – the only one operating outside of Dublin – has sparked a frenzy of interest since it was launched on Wednesday.

Drinkers must book the van for a minimum of ten pints at €6 a pop for a half hour or 20 pints served up in an hour by a barman. Homes must be located within 5km of the pub.

Monroes has been serving pints for take away from a hatch in the pub on Dominick Street since last week when Gardaí confirmed that following legal advice pubs delivering drinks and selling takeaway drinks from their premises were not contravening liquor licensing laws.

Drinks including poured pints must be paid for on a licensed premises before delivery while takeaway sales must be consumed more than 100 metres away from a pub and not in a public place.

The move has prompted lengthy queues outside the pub for both food and pints along Dominick Street. It has also sparked criticism in some quarters that the practice is encouraging ‘bush drinking’ in the Spanish Arch, where fine weather has traditionally attracted large crowds to gather by the water’s edge to imbibe.

Owner Gary Monroe said they began their takeaway food service five weeks ago as their chef was going stir-crazy stuck in a one-bedroom flat.
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