Strange Laws of Ireland

Unavailable for Comment · 01-06-2012 2:32pm

Macy Ripe Balm wrote: »

No it's not?

Yeah he's correct.

Under the intoxicated liquor act 2003 it is illegal to be admitted to a licensed premises while drunk and it is illegal to be served in a licensed premises when drunk. It is also an offense not to leave a premises when requested by a member of staff if you are drunk.

01-06-2012 3:09pm

Unavailable for Comment wrote: »

Yeah he's correct.

Under the intoxicated liquor act 2003 it is illegal to be admitted to a licensed premises while drunk and it is illegal to be served in a licensed premises when drunk. It is also an offense not to leave a premises when requested by a member of staff if you are drunk.

So then in no way is it illegal to simply be in a licensed premises while drunk... Not that hard to deduce. It's illegal for the premises to allow you in if you're already drunk, and to be served while drunk, and to refuse to leave. Also perfectly legal to be drunk in a public place.

Unavailable for Comment · 01-06-2012 3:21pm

Macy Ripe Balm wrote: »

So then in no way is it illegal to simply be in a licensed premises while drunk... Not that hard to deduce. It's illegal for the premises to allow you in if you're already drunk, and to be served while drunk, and to refuse to leave.

I may have overestimated your familiarity with licensing law.

The statute makes it illegal to display the behaviours that people would associate with a person who is drunk. Thus the legislation makes it illegal to be drunk on a premises while removing the need for license holders to have evidentiary breathalyzers to measure blood alcohol amounts to hand before ejecting patrons.

That is the purpose of the act.

Macy Ripe Balm wrote: »

Also perfectly legal to be drunk in a public place.

You're correct . . . if you're using a definition of legal that mean illegal.

mikemac1 · 01-06-2012 3:32pm

Barristers do not shake hands
This is because they are "honourable gentlemen"
Shaking hands goes back to the days of showing someone you are unarmed.
As barristers are noble gentlemen they have no need to do this

In fact if a barrister tried to shake another barristers hand it could be seen as an insult

If a barrister calls someone "my friend", that's cool
If a barrister calls someone "my learned friend", that's an insult. You're saying that are not learned at all

Upward only rent reviews were not only possible but were the done thing in Ireland

Any ships pilot or captain who wrecked a boat in Dublin Bay would have their eyes put out with a knife. Henry VIII brought in that.
Before the North Wall Dublin Bay would silt up and boats were constantly getting wrecked.
Wonder would SIPTU would say about this rule!

Adulteration Of Coffee Act 1718
Remember coffee was always an import and it wasn't so easy to get this around the world.
It was illegal to use sheep droppings to bulk up your bags of coffee beans
Actually, that's not a dumb law, that's a good one
Had to google it there but I did a night course in DIT and remember the lecturer talking about that one

02-06-2012 3:47pm

Unavailable for Comment wrote: »

I may have overestimated your familiarity with licensing law.

The statute makes it illegal to display the behaviours that people would associate with a person who is drunk. Thus the legislation makes it illegal to be drunk on a premises while removing the need for license holders to have evidentiary breathalyzers to measure blood alcohol amounts to hand before ejecting patrons.

That is the purpose of the act.

You're correct . . . if you're using a definition of legal that mean illegal.

The 2003 Act gives interpretations, “drunken person” means a person who is intoxicated to such an extent as would give rise to a reasonable apprehension that the person might endanger himself or herself or any other person, and “drunk” and “drunkenness” are to be construed accordingly;

s.4 (1) A licensee shall not, on the licensed premises—

(c) permit drunkenness to take place in the bar
(d) admit any drunken person to the bar.

As you have said this places a restriction on the behaviours of people in the bar. It does not mean drunk people are not allowed to be in the bar, and there are two ways to prove this;
If they had meant that drunk people are not allowed in the bar they would have made ss.
(c) allow drunken persons to be in the bar
instead of what it actually is and secondly, if drunken persons were not allowed on a licensed premises there would be almost no pub industry in this country.

recylingbin · 02-06-2012 3:50pm

It is illegal in Waterford to bathe more than once a week.
True story.

Bell Butter · 02-06-2012 3:58pm

Germany has the ability to micro manage our economy. What a strange law indeed.

Vicar in a tutu · 02-06-2012 4:03pm

Beer Baron wrote: »

Holders of the freedom of Dublin have the right to pasture sheep on common ground within the city boundaries. This includes College Green and St Stephen's Green. (this right was exercised as a publicity stunt by Bono when he brought sheep in to St. Stephens Green).

God.. Bono's a prick :pac: Big show off:mad:

the purple tin · 02-06-2012 4:11pm

You can legally beat your wife as long as the stick you use isn't thicker than your mickey.

Professey Chin · 02-06-2012 4:18pm

mikemac1 wrote: »

Sure there are Nazi's in Waterford

The deise want to create lebensraum in Kilkenny

Nothing lower then a land-grabber
They beat the Brits and they'll beat out the Suirsiders

http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/local/waterford_city_council_compared_to_nazis_as_boundary_row_hots_up_1_2152735

City looking to expand shocker. Hillbillys scared

John Doe1 · 02-06-2012 4:27pm

If you fiddle with children it is legal if you spent a few years in maynooth

SafeSurfer · 02-06-2012 5:45pm

It is illegal to have certain weeds growing on agricultural land in Ireland punishable by a fine. One is the, im unsure of the spelling bohalan, a yellow flowered weed.

It is also illegal to cut down a tree more than ten years old.

To do it legally involves informing the local Gardai who then place an automatic preservation order on the tree and then applying for a felling licence to cut down the tree.

Needless to say these laws are rarely enforced or observed.

Jester252 · 02-06-2012 6:29pm

SafeSurfer wrote: »

It is illegal to have certain weeds growing on agricultural land in Ireland punishable by a fine. One is the, im unsure of the spelling bohalan, a yellow flowered weed.

It is also illegal to cut down a tree more than ten years old.

To do it legally involves informing the local Gardai who then place an automatic preservation order on the tree and then applying for a felling licence to cut down the tree.

Needless to say these laws are rarely enforced or observed.

Your never tried to take down a protected tree. Have one beside my house that was causing a risk to our house meaning insurance was expensive. We got a tree surgeon out and the best he could do was prune it. He walked into the house with a lump of wood he cut off that was black to the core and was going to fall any day

Ponster · 02-06-2012 7:03pm

SafeSurfer wrote: »

It is illegal to have certain weeds growing on agricultural land in Ireland punishable by a fine. One is the, im unsure of the spelling bohalan, a yellow flowered weed.

Ragwort, also known as ragweed, buachalán and buachalán buidhe.

Ragwort is a highly poisonous plant if eaten. Ragwort is toxic to cattle, horses, deer, goats, pigs and chickens.

senorwipesalot · 02-06-2012 7:46pm

Slightly off topic but in the U.K. any person found breaking a boiled egg at the sharp end will be sentenced to 24 hours in the village stocks (enacted by Edward VI).

Sounds like something Baldybollix Noonan would come come out with.

mikemac1 · 02-06-2012 7:51pm

Silage season soon

The farmers and contractors often put flashing amber lights on their machinery, helps them to be visible

Illegal.
Yet there is always moaning about badly lit tractors on the roads.
They try to do something and get told not to

charlemont · 02-06-2012 7:52pm

There's no law against being stoned yet there is a law against possession of the substance that gets you stoned..

Buyingcar2012 · 02-06-2012 7:54pm

charlemont wrote: »

There's no law against being stoned yet there is a law against possession of the substance that gets you stoned..

S4 of the Criminal Justice Public Order would disagree.

mikemac1 · 02-06-2012 7:58pm

http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/bills/2006/4606/b4606.pdf

Nucleur Test Ban Bill 2006

Not allowed explode a nuclear device in Ireland
Damn nanny state

Doing this will land you in District Court.
Don't they have drink driving and TV licences to deal with?

summary conviction to a fine not exceeding €5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both.

Cool Story Bro · 02-06-2012 8:01pm

They removed Articles 2 and 3. That was strange. Considering they were correct and lawful Articles.

charlemont · 02-06-2012 8:05pm

Buyingcar2012 wrote: »

S4 of the Criminal Justice Public Order would disagree.

I see, Just show's how out of touch the law is then. F'king idiot's...

Sure how would anyone even know a person is stoned. :P

c_man · 02-06-2012 9:04pm

charlemont wrote: »

Sure how would anyone even know a person is stoned. :P

Just lock up anyone caught coming out a shop with a Cornetto and bag of Hula-Hoops.

admiralofthefleet · 02-06-2012 9:38pm

a pregnant woman has the right to have a piss in a police mans hat. or something

Capt'n Midnight · 02-06-2012 11:03pm

You can receive a fine of up to €127,000 and up to 5 years in prison for using a smartphone in a cinema.

LETHAL LADY · 02-06-2012 11:09pm

From a book I have a book on Irish Brehon laws.

If a youth incites a pig by shouting at it for sport, and the pig charges at idlers in the farmyard, the pig is exempt from liability for injuries.

If a woman makes an assignation with a man to come to her in a bed or behind a bush, the man is not considered guilty even if she screams.
If she has not agreed to a meeting, however, he is guilty as soon as she screams.

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