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Good friday at private venue

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  • 07-07-2015 9:56am
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    buttercups88
    Registered Users Posts: 764 ✭✭✭


    Looking at getting married next Easter on holy Thursday, the venue we're looking at is a private venue (not hotel) so just wondering what would happen after midnight regarding bar... Will they still be able to serve?


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    galljga1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭galljga1


    Not so sure. Best ask the owners. It would be a bit crap if the whole thing died at midnight.


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    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭doolox


    Good Friday is a bad time to get married. Unless it is a civil ceremony and most of your friends are not too religiously inclined.

    There are always annoying restrictions and anomalies which can affect your big day.


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    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,924 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    I think at midnight you'll all have to be off the premises, it's 11.30 closing on a Thursday and I don't think it would be possible for any license holder to get an extension into 1 of the 2 days pubs are supposed to be closed.


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    lazygal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    If you had a free bar would that get around the rules?


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    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,924 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    lazygal wrote: »
    If you had a free bar would that get around the rules?

    I wouldn't think so as you would have to have people on a licensed premises out side of normal hours.


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    buttercups88
    Registered Users Posts: 764 ✭✭✭buttercups88


    it will be a civil ceremony and the venue has accommodation which we be staying in but are not a "hotel" as such so not sure, i've emailed them just to clarify


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    akamossy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭akamossy


    I'd be looking at changing the date really if I were you. This is gonna cause you all kinds of hassle and you can't be sure things won't change coming up to the date even if they reassure you it would be ok. Wouldn't be worth the headache imo.


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    Frynge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    If it is good Friday 2016 there is most likely going to be a blanket exemption to closing on good Friday due to the Easter rising anniversary.


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    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    Frynge wrote: »
    If it is good Friday 2016 there is most likely going to be a blanket exemption to closing on good Friday due to the Easter rising anniversary.

    What better way to celebrate our countries independence than by getting wasted.

    Ya gotta love Ireland.

    :pac:


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    lazygal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Business Cat wrote: »
    What better way to celebrate our countries independence than by getting wasted.

    Ya gotta love Ireland.

    :pac:

    It isn't even a celebration of that. It's a celebration of a failure. Whoop whoop.


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    tinkerbell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭tinkerbell


    I thought that the Good Friday booze rules don't apply in hotels etc?


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    Milly33
    Registered Users Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭Milly33


    they don't apply to hotels but OP said it is more like a private venue to a hotel so it may differ


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    Not a NSA agent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Not a NSA agent


    I think hotels and private clubs get away with it by not being open to the public. I would assume that the private venue would be the same. Difficult to tell for certain though.


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    Ilyana 2.0
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    I could be wrong on this but I think hotels can only serve alcohol to residents on Good Friday, and there might be another rule about only serving drink with food.


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