Pub in Dublin’s Temple Bar slammed for ‘unjustifiable’ prices after customer shares receipt for four pints of Guinness

A tourist hotspot in Dublin has been slammed for ‘unjustifiable’ prices after a customer shared a receipt for four pints of Guinness. 

The Oliver St John Gogartys pub, which is named after the famous Irish Poet of the same name, is located in the busy Temple Bar area of the Irish capital.

The venue is known for its lively atmosphere, music, Irish food and famous pints of the black stuff. 

However an ‘outrageous’ receipt was shared by a customer on X and re-shared by the Pints of Beauty account – which got more than 33,000 views. 

The fuming punter ordered four pints for a total of €39.80 (£32.98), meaning each one cost €9.95 (£8.34). 

The post read: ‘Can someone please justify this to us? A full breakdown of why it has to cost €9.95 a pint?’ 

While Temple Bar is considered one of the most popular tourist destinations in Dublin, some have branded pubs in the area as ‘a rip off’. 

According to the Irish Pub Guide, the average price of a pint of Guinness ‘or any stout’ in May 2024 in Ireland was €5.77 (£4.84). 

Many users rushed to the comments with some claiming you have to expect those prices in tourist hotspots. 

One person wrote: ‘So many good places outside of Temple Bar, it’s a surprise to me it’s kept going in its current form as long as it has.’ 

Another said: ‘It’s Temple Bar. It’s been this way for many years.’

Someone else added: ‘Cos you went to Temple Bar’. Meanwhile another added: ‘You justified it for them by paying.’ 

Another X user disagreed that the pub was bad value, saying it was actually ‘cheap’ for Dublin.

He wrote: ‘That’s cheap for Dublin! Crazy that you can get it in places like Spain for half that when its literally made down the road.’

Another Guinness drinker weighed in: ‘Paid €9 last October in there. Was a lovely pub but soon went round the corner where it was €5.90.’

Someone else added: ‘It’s even more expensive there after 11pm. The prices go up.’ 

FEMAIL has reached out to The Oliver St John Gogartys pub for comment.   

In 2023 tourists also hit out at The Temple Bar pub for charging ‘extortionate’ amounts for visitors to enjoy a pint after another receipt from the pub was shared online.

Pints of Beauty reposted a receipt shared by a reveller after visiting the Dublin tourist hotspot for a round of drinks on August 22.

Posting the receipt on X, the website formerly known as Twitter, they wrote: ‘I’ve had this sent through a few times, think we need to discuss. Tourist attraction or not, this is barbaric!! How can this be justified?’

The receipt with The Temple Bar’s famous logo printed at the top shows a total bill of €81.85 – yet, the punter had only purchased seven items.

Two pints of Guinness – Ireland’s most sought after beverage from tourists worldwide – amounted to €17.90, meaning that it costs €8.95 for one pint.

Next on the receipt is one pint of Heineken, setting the customer back a whopping €9.95.

Two vodka and tonic drinks were then purchased – costing €27 for both, meaning the price is set at €13.50 individually.

Finally, two Jameson whisky and ginger mixers also totalled €27, bringing the entire bill to €81.85.

However, at the bottom of the receipt, it is stated that the bar’s service is not included in the total bill, but rather 23 per cent VAT, live music and a cover charge.

Furious tourists and punters took to the comments below Pint of Beauty’s post to express their shock over the ‘crazy’ charges.

The current outrage over the price of a pint of Guinness in Dublin comes after UK supermarkets and off-licences were affected by shortages of the stout in the run up to Christmas and New Year’s Eve. 

The growing appetite for Guinness among women and Generation Z drinkers is undeniable.

‘For a generation obsessed with identity, Guinness bestows a personality on the drinker,’ wrote Daily Mail journalist Olivia Dean previously.

‘Just ordering one is a ritual in itself. There’s the complex, slow-pour system (glass held at 45 degrees), which beer geeks love to lecture bartenders on.

‘There’s the obsession with “splitting the G” (for the uninitiated, this is a challenge whereby your first gulp must take the level of beer in the branded glass to exactly halfway down the “G” of “Guinness”).

‘Then there are the campy slogans – “Lovely day for a Guinness”, “Guinness is good for you” – that cry out to be splashed on an ironic T-shirt.’