About GetPint

Why we built this

Ireland talks about the price of a pint the way other countries talk about petrol or rent. It's a shorthand for the cost of a night out, a measure of a town's value, and a reliable starting point for an argument at any bar. Yet official tracking of pint prices by the Central Statistics Office stopped in 2011, leaving people with a patchwork of anecdotes and news stories instead of data.

GetPint exists to close that gap. We think what you pay for a pint should be easy to look up, easy to compare, and easy to question. The index is built in the open, updated by the community, and free for anyone to use.

How the data is gathered

There are two streams feeding every pub page:

• Community submissions. People in pubs across Ireland tap Add a Price, enter what they paid, and submit. Each entry is timestamped and tied to the pub.
• Verified public sources. Pub menus, press coverage, and operator-provided updates, each linked to its source where possible.

Every price on GetPint carries a date so you can judge how fresh it is. Prices older than a few months may be marked stale, and obvious outliers are flagged for review rather than silently deleted.

What counts as a pint

A pint price is the reported price for a standard pint served in a pub, usually Guinness, stout, lager, ale, or another draught beer. Guinness is one of the most commonly reported drinks, but GetPint is designed to track Irish pub prices more broadly as submissions grow. We do not include nitro cans, half pints, or promotional prices unless noted.

Designed to stay fresh

Some pint price projects capture a one-off snapshot. GetPint is designed to stay fresh through community updates, public sources, and ongoing corrections. Every price is dated, every average is recalculated on rebuild, and stale data is clearly labelled. That is the difference between a snapshot and a living index.

What GetPint is not

• Not affiliated with Diageo, Guinness, or any pub group.
• Not a ranking of "good" or "bad" pubs. A dear pint in a great bar is still a great bar.
• Not a tip jar for the cheapest pint at all costs. Many of our favourite pubs are not the cheapest.

Who runs it

GetPint is an independent project built around community reports and public sources. If you spot an error in a pub, price, or area page, email us with the page link and the correction so we can review it.

For pub owners

If you run a pub and want your listing to be accurate, email [email protected] with the listing link and the correction. We can review the pub name, address, drink, or reported price and add a source where available.