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Street Drinking Bans

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  • 16-06-2008 9:49pm
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    irish1967
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    Having read with interest peoples comments on Festivals in a recent thread I wondered what Donegals opinions on Street drinking bans are?

    Around 10 years ago a street drinking ban was brought in in Ballyshannon because of trouble during the Folk Festival... in many peoples eyes this killed the Festival from the huge event it used to be... in some peoples eyes it returned it to sanity and to a festival thats was about the music and not the 'piss up on the streets that many people came for. Now if anyone was in Ballyshannon for the rory gallagher fest a few weeks ago they would have noticed 1000's ( yes 1000's) drinking openly on the street... are there double standards here? what is the law? why the blind eye?

    Many,if not all, of the 'keep an eye on your back' etc comments have a direct link to the consumption of alcohol and anyone who saw the Streets of ballyshannon at 3 am each night could see that the majority of this consumption was being done on the streets. Pubs can and do regulate who gets drink and how much in relation to age and to the state of the person being served... no such control exists on the street.

    With signs up on poles round the town warning of €500 fines for the consumption of alcohol in public why no action taken??:confused:


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    donegalman1
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    It was strange to see the scenes in Letterkenny at the park near mount errigal during the rally where the drinking was festival proportions and they were cutting down the trees to burn them at bon fires. The state of the place on Sunday was terrible. I gather the towns on street Drinking ban is town wide, though it appears Gardai were more interested in other things over the weekend.


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