Pubs - closing time Holy Thursday

olaola

Hey, just wondering - do pubs close at midnight on Holy Thursday??

I can't recall myself - I suspect I'll get caught up in the annual panic search for meat and beer on Good Friday.

Pongo

It's 11.30pm last orders on Holy Thursday, for Pubs, Nightclubs and Late Bars. Nothing is open after midnight, well, legally anyway.... Certainly will have a hard time getting alcohol on Good Friday, wouldn't have thought meat would be much of a problem these days though?

noby

It's 11.30 every Thursday for pubs. We just couldn't handle that extra hour, so the Govt. took it back.

Pongo

noby wrote:

It's 11.30 every Thursday for pubs. We just couldn't handle that extra hour, so the Govt. took it back.

True but on a normal Thursday you've plenty of options for a drink after 11.30pm, Nightclubs, Late Bars, etc... the thing that catches people out on Holy Thursday is that come Midnight that's it, everything shuts up.

Random

What a wonderfully backward country. Impose your religious beliefs on the rest of us. grr!

jabberwock

in New Zealand atm and they don't sell alcohol on Good Friday AND Easter Sunday.
but on a normal day a 24hour supermarket can sell it from 7am til 1am.
and I'm 28 and CAN'T even think about leaving the house without my passport for any type of alcohol procurement

Pongo

ciaranfo wrote:

What a wonderfully backward country. Impose your religious beliefs on the rest of us. grr!

Ironically enough I'd say it's one of the heaviest days of drinking for most people. Pubs are shut, so naturally people have house parties instead. Check out the queues in any Off Licence next Thursday and you'll see what I mean.

Most of our Licensing Laws were influenced by religion and as you can see from jabberwock I don't think Ireland is unique in that respect... Anyone remember the old Sunday 'Holy Hour' when every Pub shut from 2-4pm? And up to 2001 it was illegal to serve drink into a Sunday from Saturday night, effectively meaning that any Late Bar or Nightclub serving after midnight on a Saturday was breaking the law.

Random

Pongo wrote:

Ironically enough I'd say it's one of the heaviest days of drinking for most people. Pubs are shut, so naturally people have house parties instead. Check out the queues in any Off Licence next Thursday and you'll see what I mean.

Most of our Licensing Laws were influenced by religion and as you can see from jabberwock I don't think Ireland is unique in that respect... Anyone remember the old Sunday 'Holy Hour' when every Pub shut from 2-4pm? And up to 2001 it was illegal to serve drink into a Sunday from Saturday night, effectively meaning that any Late Bar or Nightclub serving after midnight on a Saturday was breaking the law.

Didn't they give us (like little ****ing kids looking for sweets for the cruel mother who'd rather eat them herself!) longer pub opening hours a while back and then curtail them again?

I really don't see the problem. Let the pubs be open!

The Hill Billy

Pongo wrote:

Anyone remember the old Sunday 'Holy Hour' when every Pub shut from 2-4pm?

What about the Holy Hour that used to be on weekdays? Pubs used to shut from 2 to 3 IIRC.


* gets zimmerframe *

noby

Or not being allowed to open Sundays until half an hour after last mass. Is that still going?

Pongo

Hill Billy wrote:

What about the Holy Hour that used to be on weekdays? Pubs used to shut from 2 to 3 IIRC.


* gets zimmerframe *

Showing your age there! If my memory serves me right it was 2-4pm, like the old Sunday holy hour, I think itwas done away with in 1988 or thereabouts... Sunday closing time was 10.30pm as well, which was then changed to 11pm. This was bakc in the good old days of Winter/Summertime hours, 11pm everyday in Winter for some reason, and 11.30pm in the Summer, except Sundays...

Forgot about the later Sunday opening hours noby, you're dead right, Monday to Saturday is 10.30am (7.30am for an early house), Sunday is 12.30pm (No early houses open on Sunday)... Never thought of it being to do with the last mass but it makes sense (insofar as any of the Licensing laws make sense that is....)

noby

I wasn't aware of the mass time thing either, until someone pointed out to me - next town over was last mass 11.30, opening 12.00.

We had some very quaint rules trough history. There was a time when a traveller was allowed an extra hour drinking time, so a lot of people used go drinking in the next village. Not sure of the distance, but if you were sleeping x miles from the pub you qualified!