Holy Thursday

daddydear · 22-03-2006 9:24am #1

I know its a bit early to be asking but does anyone knoe the situation with Good Thursday. I have inadvertadly booked a work night out for that date. I know most of the bars close at 12. But does anyone know if there is going to be anywhere open or any suggestons for what we can do after 12. It to late for me to change the date.

BoozyBabe · 22-03-2006 11:30am

daddydear wrote:

Good Thursday

It's Holy Thursday & Good Friday!!!

Don't think anything closes on Holy Thursday, it's Good Friday they close, isn't it???

aw · 22-03-2006 11:33am

As far as I know nightclubs don't open.
There is no serving during Good Friday which means after 12 am in the morning (thursday night).
So maybe you should change it....

Sleepy · 22-03-2006 11:34am

Nope, think this backwards country still makes the bars close at 12. Your best bet is to see if you can organise some kind of house-party or lock-in daddydear.

super_furry · 22-03-2006 11:37am

Go bowling?

Redrocket · 22-03-2006 11:55am

good friday and christmas day are the only days pubs have to close in this country

ccd · 22-03-2006 11:58am

I'am off to see pete dohethy band babyshambles play that night. I cant belive the bar will shut at 12 and I wont be able to do anything after it.

super_furry · 22-03-2006 12:24pm

ccd wrote:

I'am off to see pete dohethy band babyshambles play that night. I cant belive the bar will shut at 12 and I wont be able to do anything after it.

Well if Pete Doherty's there, you probably won't need drink.......

merlinsmerryman · 22-03-2006 12:39pm

Try a Chinese they'll serve drink after 12.

rubadub · 22-03-2006 1:44pm

super_furry wrote:

Go bowling?

Yep and smuggle in booze, I saw it a few times in stillorgan bowl. 24hrs and have food, so people are at tables with burgers and large cokes pouring in vodka on the sly and doing a bit of bowling.

Oriel · 22-03-2006 1:45pm

Damn Christianity

Esel · 23-03-2006 1:25am

daddydear wrote:

...any suggestons for what we can do after 12.....

Do like everyone else will do - go home. Don't make the same mistake next year.

Sleepy · 23-03-2006 1:41am

stevenk wrote:

good friday and christmas day are the only days pubs have to close in this country

Your point being?

Victor · 23-03-2006 1:45am

sinecurea wrote:

Damn Christianity

Two days of the year, you can't drink and "WHINGE!!!"

Sleepy · 23-03-2006 1:48am

TBH Victor, for myself it's the principle of the thing. I believe in the complete separation of church and state. This to me is the equivalent of forcing Ramadan fasting on a country. Less extreme of course, but it's still a complete intrusion of religious beliefs into the governing of the state.

Victor · 23-03-2006 1:55am

But in Pakistan the weekend is Saturday-Sunday, despite it being an Islamic country.

Germany has strict separation of church and state but still has church taxes and nobody works Sunday.

Do you **really** need to be down the boozer on Christmas day and insist on keeping the bar staff away from their families?

Esel · 23-03-2006 1:57am

Sleepy wrote:

Your point being?

I would say his point is that pubs have to close by midnight of Holy Thursday. Suck it and see - and I don't mean some sheebeen somewhere.

Sleepy · 23-03-2006 2:04am

I'm not suggesting that pubs be forced to open Victor, but to ban it by law is allowing religious intrusion. Why shouldn't an atheist publican be allowed to provide a service to any non-Catholics (or even 'Catholics' that choose to ignore this rule of their religion) on Good Friday if they want to?

I'm not aware of these 'Church taxes' you mention in Germany but if they're what they sound like, I think Germany can't exactly claim to have "strict separation of church and state"...

I see your argument that a day without alcohol doesn't do anyone any harm (though in practice Holy Thursday is the second busiest day in off-licences around the country after Christmas Eve) but I don't think this stands up as a reason to allow a religious practice to be forced on citizens of a country.

cooker3 · 23-03-2006 2:08am

Victor wrote:

But in Pakistan the weekend is Saturday-Sunday, despite it being an Islamic country.

Germany has strict separation of church and state but still has church taxes and nobody works Sunday.

Do you **really** need to be down the boozer on Christmas day and insist on keeping the bar staff away from their families?

Again not the point, I wouldn't be in the pub good Friday if they were opened, doesn't affect me in the slightest but the fact that they do bothers me as it is purely for religions reasons and has no sense to it. It's a ridiculous, forcing people to close and lose revenue like that

Our man in Havana · 23-03-2006 2:11am

In Germany you have to register at the townhall which religion you are and you have to pay taxes to that religion. It is 9% on top of the income tax! :eek: Going atheist is the only way to go! http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1168497,00.html

BTW I am 110% with you on separation of church and state.

Sleepy · 23-03-2006 2:12am

So who do you pay taxes to if your atheist/agnostic?

Our man in Havana · 23-03-2006 2:23am

Nope!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax

Austria
Church tax is compulsory in Austria and Catholics can be sued by the Church for not paying it. Anyone who wants to stop paying it has to declare in writing, at their local municipal council, that they are leaving the Church. They are then crossed off the Church registers and can no longer receive the sacraments. The tax amounts to about 1% of the income.

Love to see them try that here!

daddydear · 23-03-2006 8:12am

Any ideas or suggestions on private clubs, retraunts, members bars where I can get some drinks

BC · 23-03-2006 11:01am

daddydear wrote:

Any ideas or suggestions on private clubs, retraunts, members bars where I can get some drinks

Its illegal to sell alcohol after midnight so unless you know the owner i doubt you'll get very far.
Unless of course you book yourself into a hotel for the night. Hotel bars are allowed to sell drink to residents.

Our man in Havana · 23-03-2006 11:09am

Hueston station and any railway station can serve alcohol of Good Friday as can the bars on the trains.

Oriel · 23-03-2006 11:39am

Victor wrote:

Two days of the year, you can't drink and "WHINGE!!!"

Somebody's religion should not govern what I can or cannot do.

Stephen · 23-03-2006 11:45am

holy crap:

In 2002, the churches received €3.35 billion ($4.02 billion) in church tax revenue.

From the link posted above.

That is ****ing ridiculous, like tithes from the middle ages. So if I lived in Germany, i'd save 9% on my income tax because i'm an atheist, meanwhile the bible thumpers are forced to stump up? hahahaha

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