good friday

Ron DMC · 19-03-2008 3:55pm

MOH wrote: »

They said Sunday's would be ruined if we abolished holy hour, hasn't made that much of a difference that I can see.

What's 'holy hour'?

tolosenc · 19-03-2008 3:55pm

Why can't it be a Tuesday. I mean, a Friday is taking the piss...

That, and it's a law hanging over from when the country was run by the catholic church, like no gays or divorce and all that jazz...

tolosenc · 19-03-2008 3:56pm

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

What's 'holy hour'?

+1

Preset No.3 · 19-03-2008 4:09pm

Oh yeah its a disgrace for one day!! Its the law so live with it. Id like to see you trying to survive Ramadan in an islamic country. How long is that? 5 weeks of no clubs or pubs being open!

19-03-2008 4:10pm

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

What's 'holy hour'?

Holy Diver!

dlane99 · 19-03-2008 4:15pm

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

What's 'holy hour'?

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

apparently the pubs used to close for an hour on a sunday, from what ive herd it was less to do with the act of prayer and more to do with the act of geting the auld lads to stop drinking all day.

Wazdakka · 19-03-2008 4:16pm

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

What's 'holy hour'?

Twas sixty minute of compulsory bar closing, 14.30 - 15.30 on Sundays

Abolished in 2000..

Used to play havoc with a match

EDIT:

Damnit.. Outspeeded and outlinked.

LimerickCity · 19-03-2008 4:20pm

What did jesus say to his apostles when he was being nailed to the cross?

"Don't touch my fawkin easter eggs i'll be back on Monday"

RuailleBuaille · 19-03-2008 4:27pm

My aunty owns a pub down the country so we'll be in the pub, drinking and smoking with gay abandon!

All the poor oulfellas will have their red noses pushed up against the glass, oh how we shall giggle!

JC 2K3 · 19-03-2008 4:34pm

Myth wrote: »

Holy Diver!

Been down too long in the midnight sea!!!!!

gracehopper · 19-03-2008 4:34pm

poukai wrote: »

If the tourists are only here for the drink, then that doesn't say much for the rest of the city does it? I can think of plenty of things to do in Dublin as a tourist that doesn't involve alcohol and I'm sure most of them can too.

Like what?

djpbarry · 19-03-2008 4:49pm

Preset No.3 wrote: »

Oh yeah its a disgrace for one day!! Its the law so live with it.

Eh, this is a democracy - we can change the law if we want. Anyway, the only reason it's law is because the church said so, but we're supposed to be a secular republic.

Preset No.3 wrote: »

Id like to see you trying to survive Ramadan in an islamic country. How long is that? 5 weeks of no clubs or pubs being open!

Ah yes, the old "just be thankful you're not in a Muslim country" argument; you can justify anything the Catholic Church does with that one :rolleyes:.

Actually, I was in Pakistan during Ramadan a couple of years back, near this place. And guess what. I was drinking. During the day :eek:.

ec18 · 19-03-2008 4:57pm

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Been down too long in the midnight sea!!!!!

Oh whats becoming of me!!!

:pac::p

robinph · 19-03-2008 5:05pm

poukai wrote: »

If the tourists are only here for the drink, then that doesn't say much for the rest of the city does it? I can think of plenty of things to do in Dublin as a tourist that doesn't involve alcohol and I'm sure most of them can too.

Most of those other things are also likely to be closed on Good Friday, looks like the Zoo might be open though.

Agamemnon · 19-03-2008 5:16pm

LimerickCity wrote: »

What did jesus say to his apostles when he was being nailed to the cross?

"Don't touch my fawkin easter eggs i'll be back on Monday"

I'll be stocking up on drink this Thursday and going to a house party Friday. It's a day without pubs, not booze. When I worked in a supermarket, it was funny to see the panic buying of booze before Good Friday. Some people even filled trollies with bottles and cans.

Collie D · 19-03-2008 5:47pm

rb_ie wrote: »

Anyone who reeaaaallllyyy can't go one day of the year without a drink should check themselves in to AA tbh.

I think it's more a kinf of "Screw you, who are you to say I can't buy booze" attitude rather than an actual need of alcohol

Duggy747 · 19-03-2008 5:47pm

Well, I'll be hitting the pub tomorrow. A well deserved pint of Guinness for a long hard week of work (3 days is enough to drive anyone postal!).

Gonna be stocking up on the ol' booze & fags Thursday and holding myself up in my mates flat until this religious stuff blows over............pretty much what I'd do in the event of a nuclear holocaust. It's why I call it "Atomic Friday"

mise_me_fein · 19-03-2008 5:48pm

Maybe some people should petition for a change in the law, but even if this went to a vote I think most of the country would leave things as they are for a number of reasons.

Duggy747 · 19-03-2008 5:52pm

Actually Good Friday makes me feel like a teenager again:
There's nothing to do, nowhere to go, the Gardaì will watch you like a hawk if you're out on the streets after 8pm, and thus you end up drinking if you can get your mits on booze.

PauloMN · 19-03-2008 5:54pm

LimerickCity wrote: »

I'll be in Ballybunion cleaning out the mobile home for the start of the season.

Wow, how lucky can one guy get? :rolleyes:

djpbarry · 19-03-2008 5:57pm

mise_me_fein wrote: »

Maybe some people should petition for a change in the law, but even if this went to a vote I think most of the country would leave things as they are for a number of reasons.

Such as?

orestes · 19-03-2008 6:02pm

I know that a lot of bars in Dublin open at 00.01 am Saturday, but does everywhere close at midnight on Thursday or do they finish their normal opening hours and then not re-open on Friday?

I hope that makes sense and you know what I mean

MIN2511 · 19-03-2008 6:13pm

Can ye stop whining…. Previously I would go on about why we can’t drink on Paddy’s day, it’s just one day…. Surely we can live without booze…
Or go to a house party like me

SirLemonhead · 19-03-2008 6:18pm

Mossy Monk wrote: »

I don't see the OP mentioning alcohol. Why have all those on their high horses come in harping about alcohol?

Yep, I didn't see him complaining either. Just a nice, general query

grames_bond · 20-03-2008 12:54am

orestes wrote: »

, but does everywhere close at midnight on Thursday or do they finish their normal opening hours and then not re-open on Friday?

ye man, pubs and stuff stop serving at 11pm on thursday (not even full normal last orders) and then dont open till saturday!

Trojan911 · 20-03-2008 1:04am

Feck, if ye are that bad on the lack of alcohol for Good Friday, then book into a hotel. They will serve alcohol in the residents bar. It's called a legal loophole.....

ashman007 · 05-08-2009 9:37pm

For any hotel that does that its still illegal. Since 2009 as in the good friday just gone the bars can open to the public but no alchol can be served as in tea/ coffee food etc.

Some people claim that restaurants open can serve alcohol this again is not right. Restaurants that open cant serve alchol by law

Yes it is a stupid law but regardless of any loop hole people talk about there is not one. Alcohol is not to be available anywhere on good friday. Hotels can serve to residents once after 12am on good friday same as some night clubs opening.

Hotels may serve you in your bedroom but is still illegal

dsmythy · 05-08-2009 9:46pm

ashman007 wrote: »

For any hotel that does that its still illegal. Since 2009 as in the good friday just gone the bars can open to the public but no alchol can be served as in tea/ coffee food etc.

Some people claim that restaurants open can serve alcohol this again is not right. Restaurants that open cant serve alchol by law

Yes it is a stupid law but regardless of any loop hole people talk about there is not one. Alcohol is not to be available anywhere on good friday. Hotels can serve to residents once after 12am on good friday same as some night clubs opening.

Hotels may serve you in your bedroom but is still illegal

It's August... Zombie threads on Good Friday are pointless.

admiralofthefleet · 05-08-2009 9:49pm

old thread is old

good friday

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