Liz Delaney’s Bar at the Northside Shopping Centre in Coolock, Dublin came under fire on Monday for a controversial drinks promotion they were running. The bar was advertising ‘Welfare Wednesday’ which saw various drink promotions available for people who had a social welfare card. On Tuesday morning, the Department of Social Welfare called on the bar to remove their logo from the poster’s branding while Tánaiste Joan Burton stated that the promotion was “irresponsible.” In response, Liz Delaney’s posted a press release to their website stating: “We would like to take this opportunity to clarify our intentions with our recent promotion and put it on the record that no stage were we ever trying to encourage binge drinking or irresponsible behaviour. “It was never our intention to offend or upset anybody. We would also like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologise for any offence we might have caused." “We feel that the local pub is an integral part of Irish Society and just because you are out of work you should not be excluded from normal social activities,” the post continued. “We would further like to comment on what Tánaiste Joan Burton called an ‘irresponsible’ drinks promotion. She is the second in command of this government that subsidises multinational companies to the tune of €50 million per year to promote below cost selling of alcohol in their supermarkets. “That’s what we call ‘irresponsible’. This €50 million would go a long way to help with job creation, homelessness and the current hospital overcrowding problem.”