Which places serve alcohol on Good Friday?

Croppy Bhoy

Just wondering. inb4 "omg cant you just wait a day" stuff.

Also do you agree with the country closing the bars for Good Friday, or should it just be left to practising Catholics to avoid drinking that day?

whoopdedoo

here we go again...

starviewadams

Hotel's do if you're a guest.

TeddyTedson

Nowhere in this country serves alcohol on good Friday.
Except drinklink if that's still around....
House party ftw.

Croppy Bhoy

I seem to recall someone saying that train stations and theatres do as well. Is it basically anywhere with a bar that isn't an actual pub/nightclub?

ScaldyMc

The service car on a train will serve alcohol on Good Friday. I know a few chaps who travel on the train for the day just so they can have a few drinks.

Duggy747

Thursday night Off-Licenses, plan ahead man!

...and yes *sarmy voice* I could go one day without drink *smarmy voice* but I don't want to. Every Friday I like to relax with a beer.

chin_grin

ScaldyMc wrote: »

The service car on a train will serve alcohol on Good Friday. I know a few chaps who travel on the train for the day just so they can have a few drinks.

Time for an intervention methinks. :pac:

Croppy Bhoy

ScaldyMc wrote: »

The service car on a train will serve alcohol on Good Friday. I know a few chaps who travel on the train for the day just so they can have a few drinks.

That's pretty tragic.

I'm only asking because a mate wanted to escape the UK for the Royal Wedding bollox and come over for a session, but this looks to have ruined it what with the nightclubs closing at 12 (or at least stop serving?) and not being able to go out Friday either.

_Cato_

Has nobody come to the conclusion that by stopping us from purchasing a commodity on a specific day is just incredibly f*cking stupid?

kfallon

Croppy Bhoy wrote: »

That's pretty tragic.

I'm only asking because a mate wanted to escape the UK for the Royal Wedding bollox and come over for a session, but this looks to have ruined it what with the nightclubs closing at 12 (or at least stop serving?) and not being able to go out Friday either.

Eh the Royal Wedding is on the week after Easter :rolleyes:

Schism

Stock up on Thursday and get some people over. 'Tis the easiest answer here.

In fact have a barbecue too that'll show 'em! :pac:

Croppy Bhoy

_Cato_ wrote: »

Has nobody come to the conclusion that by stopping us from purchasing a commodity on a specific day is just incredibly f*cking stupid?

Yes it is, as is banning abortion and stuff, very backwards, but it's a Catholic country so that's how we roll.

Also I reckon a part of it is Ireland proving a point to the rest of the world that they can go a day without it.

kfallon wrote: »

Eh the Royal Wedding is on the week after Easter

O RLY? I'll let him know. Neither of us are that clued in on the Windsor's social lives tbh

Remmy

They don't serve alchohol on Good friday?Friday?That rules out getting down on friday.How is everyone going to look forward to the weekend?

kfallon

Croppy Bhoy wrote: »

O RLY? I'll let him know. Neither of us are that clued in on the Windsor's social lives tbh

No programmes will be served on Uk TV that day, we'll just get to see the son of a slag get married to another slag :rolleyes:

GLaDOS

Croppy Bhoy wrote: »

Yes it is, as is banning abortion and stuff, very backwards, but it's a Catholic country so that's how we roll.

And some people think the census isn't important

UglyBolloxFace

ScaldyMc wrote: »

The service car on a train will serve alcohol on Good Friday. I know a few chaps who travel on the train for the day just so they can have a few drinks.

They're a bunch of sad bastards in my opinion.

Croppy Bhoy

kfallon wrote: »

No programmes will be served on Uk TV that day, we'll just get to see the son of a slag get married to another slag :rolleyes:

Oh stop it you nasty bigot you. Didn't you get the memo, we're buddies now. Wouldn't be surprised if Enda Kenny has a big tribute arranged for it. Bigger than whatever he has planned for the Easter Rising commemorations no doubt. Welcome to Modern €ire.

ScaldyMc

Yes, those gentlemen who sit on the train for Good Friday sure are a sad lot. Have to admire their dedication though.

El Weirdo

Every. Fucking. Year.

vicwatson

Yes, I agree, the law is a bit 1960's Ireland, if we can get the catholic church out of our schools as not everyone's a catholic/christian why can't the pubs open, those that don't want to go in don't have to ! If you are catholic/christian and want to abide by the abstinence rule then feel free, but not everyone is catholic/christian in this country.

Mongarra

kfallon wrote: »

No programmes will be served on Uk TV that day, we'll just get to see the son of a slag get married to another slag :rolleyes:

That's not very nice.

btw What do you mean by the first part about no progs being served ....?

Ghost Buster

whoopdedoo wrote: »

here we go again...

Here we go again indeed. Closing the pubs on the say so of thousands of years dead goat herders in the middle east!:D

Croppy Bhoy

Crisis averted anyway, 'Good' Friday (here-on known as Minus Craic Friday) is April 22nd not April 29th.

Now I can enjoy the wedding with a vintage bottle of Buckfast.

prinz

It's a stupid law, the only thing equally as stupid is people going out of their way to drink on that day especially as some sort of 'protest statement'.

Having said that there are a few places to go. Some smaller hotels will stick your name on the guestbook and give you a key.

AudreyHepburn

You all do realise you can actually have a drink on Good Friday don't you? You just can't purchase it.

If you need a drink that badly get together with friends and family in some-one's house and have a few. No-ones stopping you doing that.

Ghost Buster

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

You all do realise you can actually have a drink on Good Friday don't you? You just can't purchase it.

If you need a drink that badly get together with friends and family in some-one's house and have a few. No-ones stopping you doing that.

But God is watching you..........:P

CorkMan

I heard this place does the job.

LondonIrish90

Croppy Bhoy wrote: »

That's pretty tragic.

I'm only asking because a mate wanted to escape the UK for the Royal Wedding bollox and come over for a session, but this looks to have ruined it what with the nightclubs closing at 12 (or at least stop serving?) and not being able to go out Friday either.

Tell your mate that nobody is forced to go to London or watch on tv if they don't want to. He doesn't have to be so melodramatic and leave the country as a way of showing his apathy or anything like that.

Croppy Bhoy

LondonIrish90 wrote: »

Tell your mate that nobody is forced to go to London or watch on tv if they don't want to. He doesn't have to be so melodramatic and leave the country as a way of showing his apathy or anything like that.

I think you'll find that Scotland can be very in-your-face when it comes to anything like Royal Weddings, Orange marches etc. The same way a lot of people feel it necessary to get out of the North of Ireland during marching season.

kfallon

Mongarra wrote: »

That's not very nice.

btw What do you mean by the first part about no progs being served ....?

All usual programmes in the UK will be suspended so we can have 24 hour coverage of this absolute non event.

It'll prob be as bad as when his slagbag Ma died, we had nothing on tv for about 2 days except her, fooking Liverpool v Newcastle was called off as was the Monday night Old Firm game ruining two potential visits to the boozer!

LondonIrish90

Croppy Bhoy wrote: »

I think you'll find that Scotland can be very in-your-face when it comes to anything like Royal Weddings, Orange marches etc. The same way a lot of people feel it necessary to get out of the North of Ireland during marching season.

Umm, I think you are wrong. In your face when it comes to Royal weddings? Its been about 30 years since the last high profile one, and society has changed considerably.

Of course there will be some people having a party. Let them have it. Is your friend so petulant that he can't stand to see people enjoying something he doesn't agree with? If he doesn't want to watch it there will be many places where he can go to be with like minded people.

Overheal

Irish people are funny. You know how piss simple it is to just stock up Thursday and Barbeque Friday? And cheap.

I can count the number of times I've been to a Pub/Bar in the last year on my hand. Irish culture revolves around the barstool. Get off it.

/as a form of protest though I agree I hate any government telling a private citizen what they can do privately in a private establishment on a particular day on the calendar. Especially if for a purely religious consequence.

mikemac

You get served in a hotel if you are a resident.

Ghost Buster

Overheal wrote: »

Irish people are funny. They allow the beliefs of goat herders to influence state law.




Fixed!

Overheal

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Fixed!

Oh there are a lot of things I could say are funny, but I was just sticking to the one or two things.

Ghost Buster

Overheal wrote: »

Oh there are a lot of things I could say are funny, but I was just sticking to the one or two things.

Im not at all bothered by the fact that i cant get served in a pub on 'Nailed him up Friday'. I rarely go to the pub but it does bug me that a religion has such sway that laws can be created and upheld on its behalf.
I have 80 pints of assorted home brew in my shed:D

cosmicfart

become one of them peeps that give out the holy communion and you gets a free guzzle of wine. repeat this with every church in your parish and HEYYYYYYYYYY

Mint Sauce

Book a cheap flight, and drink away at the airport. Connolly and Huston train stations will also serve you if you have a ticket.

Jim

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

They're a bunch of sad bastards in my opinion.

I imagine they're just doing it as a way of taking a novelty out of the day. Making an event out of it, doing something they wouldn't normally do in any other situation for the fun of it.

Anyway, drinking on the train is great fun.

jackiebaron

Best thing to do is stock up with crates of beer on Thursday then on Good Friday go knacker drinking on the lawns/grounds of the local Church leaving the place in an appalling state what with empty cans and bottles, kebab wrapper and piles of puke/dung, piss puddles in the corner and used condoms. It won't be long before they're petitioning the government to perhaps let the scumbags have a few hours in the pub on Good Friday :P

PeterIanStaker

Schism wrote: »

Stock up on Thursday and get some people over. 'Tis the easiest answer here.

In fact have a barbecue too that'll show 'em! :pac:

Best idea ever! Could call it 3B's - Burgers, Beer & Blasphemy.

Croppy Bhoy

LondonIrish90 wrote: »

Umm, I think you are wrong. In your face when it comes to Royal weddings? Its been about 30 years since the last high profile one, and society has changed considerably.

Of course there will be some people having a party. Let them have it. Is your friend so petulant that he can't stand to see people enjoying something he doesn't agree with? If he doesn't want to watch it there will be many places where he can go to be with like minded people.

I think you're reading too much into it. He just wants to come over for a session and if he has to pick a weekend, why not pick the one where half of Scotland will be gettin' their Empire on? You can be sure that plenty of people there will use the weekend as more than just a 'oh goody gum drops William is getting married' and will instead use it as another opportunity to get their flutes and bowler hats out and rub it in the face of the Irish community there.

You live/are from London (so am I for what it's worth), where the notion of Great Britain is mainly a touristy thing. Nobody in London really cares about any of that and it's definitely not accompanied by the same sinister undertones as it is in parts of Scotland.

Son Of A Vidic

OP here's a tip - forward planning!

Overheal

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

forward planning!

Not a strongpoint in an Irish society that cut it's water charges when times were good and wonders why fifteen years later the system is falling apart and in need of expensive repairs.