GAA/rugby clubs charging for use of function room

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 26-03-2012 11:03pm #1

My girlfriends best friend was pricing a function room for her 21st which is on in May. Her preferred place, the GAA cub, were looking for €300 whilst the rugby club said she could have it free! That €300 didn't include food or dj or the security they said they'd have to hire. My point is do you think it's reasonable to be charging for an otherwise empty room when they're already guaranteed X amount in bar sales?? Obviously she opted for the free option but the local would have been way handier!

starbelgrade · 26-03-2012 11:09pm

It's reasonable to charge for anything once someone is willing to pay for it.

Naomi00 · 26-03-2012 11:10pm

€300 is a lot but the club needs to fundraise somehow. Around €50 for the room and extra for bar staff would be normal though I think.

krudler · 26-03-2012 11:11pm

but are ya from de parish? who's yer father? how many hang sangwiches will be available? all these things matter

MickySticks · 26-03-2012 11:12pm

Cutting edge drama in AH tonight :rolleyes:

FoxT · 26-03-2012 11:15pm

jar_of_coins wrote: »

.... My point is do you think it's reasonable to be charging for an otherwise empty room when they're already guaranteed X amount in bar sales??...

Of course it is! They would be wasting an important revenue-generating resource if they did not.

How do you know it would otherwise be empty?

And, do you think it is reasonable to expect to be able to use a function room for free?

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 26-03-2012 11:15pm

krudler wrote: »

but are ya from de parish? who's yer father? how many hang sangwiches will be available? all these things matter

We're from the parish alright! Her dads the local painter/decorator/jackofalltrades. But the manager of the place isn't local so probably doesn't give a damn! Plenty of hang sangwiches gonna be needed though (",)

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 26-03-2012 11:17pm

MickySticks wrote: »

Cutting edge drama in AH tonight :rolleyes:

Knew there'd be at least one

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Squidgy Black · 26-03-2012 11:22pm

I used to do lounge boy in a GAA club for functions. It's 30-40 per lounge staff, usually 3 so there's 120 of the 300 already. Then there's the glasses, the amount of drunk idiots that destroy them. And of course there's the organising of the room, you have to try and work around the use of the schedule of the hall's use for this.

It all adds up, but in the end it is all for profit, like any other business.

daddydick · 26-03-2012 11:28pm

Well they're definitely going to make a load of cash when the OP and all the birthday gang are in the rugby club

Ridiculous if you ask me, should I course be free I charge, a 21st is expensive enough and there is enough competition out there as is evident...the GAA club just lost itself quite the few quid in bar sales!

Paparazzo · 26-03-2012 11:45pm

Pubs are the same. Some pubs charge, some are free. I was ringing around for a place a while back, some pubs were charging €300, then wanted another €100 for a dj.
Strangely enough, the dublin city centre ones seemed to be free, the local bars further out that you'd imagine would want the extra trade seemed to be the ones that charged.

WoollyRedHat · 27-03-2012 12:24am

jar_of_coins wrote: »

My girlfriends best friend was pricing a function room for her 21st which is on in May. Her preferred place, the GAA cub, were looking for €300 whilst the rugby club said she could have it free! That €300 didn't include food or dj or the security they said they'd have to hire. My point is do you think it's reasonable to be charging for an otherwise empty room when they're already guaranteed X amount in bar sales?? Obviously she opted for the free option but the local would have been way handier!

Does he play any foreign games? They don't like those type, it was hard enough to get Croke Park for them, handing over the local GAA Clubs to a pro-english sport lover and his mates to party comes at a price.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 27-03-2012 1:00am

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

jar_of_coins wrote: »

My girlfriends best friend was pricing a function room for her 21st which is on in May. Her preferred place, the GAA cub, were looking for €300 whilst the rugby club said she could have it free! That €300 didn't include food or dj or the security they said they'd have to hire. My point is do you think it's reasonable to be charging for an otherwise empty room when they're already guaranteed X amount in bar sales?? Obviously she opted for the free option but the local would have been way handier!

Does he play any foreign games? They don't like those type, it was hard enough to get Croke Park for them, handing over the local GAA Clubs to a pro-english sport lover and his mates to party comes at a price.

Or she..

no she doesn't play any sports! Its not as if we wanted the function room to play a 5 a side it was for a 21st...

Run_to_da_hills · 27-03-2012 1:01am

GAA halls are a subsidiary of the Fianna Fail party, they need all the finance they can get.

Cookie_Monster · 27-03-2012 5:51am

Paying players and refs mileage ain't free you know, needs to be covered somehow...

padd b1975 · 27-03-2012 6:53am

What sort of facilities have the local soccer team?
Maybe they have a rusty old shipping container you could use?

GAA/rugby clubs charging for use of function room

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