Pub Opening Hours Next Thursday

HankScorpio1985

Do pubs in Dublin have normal opening hours next Thursday or are they gonna stop serving before 12 for Good Friday?

Eever

They have to stop serving ad midnight. Then on Friday, a lot of places open at midnight.

cosanostra

Good old good friday the day the nation goes mad looking for ways to get a drink

abouttobebanned

Well pubs should stop serving before 12 on any thursday...but the late bars, who can usually serve til 1:30, will have to be shut by 12.

Don't you know that Jesus was put to death on that day? Well you know...not that day exactly...well it changes every year, anyway...he was crucified and we all know that he was killed because , doped up on too much last supper wine he got his statements of defence all messed up, sacked his lawyer, well to cut a long story short he ended up nailed to a cross.

Anyway, as a result of this nasty turn of events, we are all reminded of the dangers of alcohol each good Friday. However, just like Jesus over indulged himself at the last supper on "holy Thursday" we are all encouraged to do the same,

And then on Sunday we will have Easter eggs because the colour of the eggs is the same colour as the cross that was used to kill him. And eh...well...yeah. There ya go.

GavRedKing

I for one will be getting locked on Good Friday.

That is all.

zirazira

gavredking wrote: »

I for one will be getting locked on Good Friday.

That is all.

getting locked? Why??

Plazaman

cosanostra wrote: »

Good old good friday the day the nation goes mad looking for ways to get a drink

Well it wouldn't be a good Friday if there were no tasty beverages.

NothingMan

House party Friday! One of the best party days of the year.

fakearms123

I have a 50th birthday tonight in a house with a bar and tap..... let the begrudgery begin :cool:

abouttobebanned

fakearms123 wrote: »

I have a 50th birthday tonight in a house with a bar and tap..... let the begrudgery begin :cool:

You know today isn't good Friday don't ya?

Plazaman

fakearms123 wrote: »

I have a 50th birthday tonight in a house with a bar and tap..... let the begrudgery begin :cool:

*points* Damn you Sir and your fancy house bar

If I bring Tayto, can I come?

For Forks Sake

gavredking wrote: »

I for one will be getting locked on Good Friday.

That is all.

Are you a door?

stupidusername

each year this seems to get more and more out dated. i'm by no means a big drinker and absolutely can hold off when i want to, but being told because of the supposedly major religion in the country I can't drink on thursday night or friday night, pssst, pissin me right off.

wtf has stopping people from drinking got to do with good friday anyway!? is it deemed offensive or something? do other countries do this too?

abouttobebanned

stupidusername wrote: »

each year this seems to get more and more out dated. i'm by no means a big drinker and absolutely can hold off when i want to, but being told because of the supposedly major religion in the country I can't drink on thursday night or friday night, pssst, pissin me right off.

wtf has stopping people from drinking got to do with good friday anyway!? is it deemed offensive or something? do other countries do this too?

It's explained for you above.

Minstrel27

zirazira wrote: »

getting locked? Why??

Why not. A lot of people choose to have parties on Good Friday. We aren't all into the holy zombie.

Spunge

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Why not. A lot of people choose to have parties on Good Friday. We aren't all into the holy zombie.

Blasphemy!
You're going to jail, son.

stupidusername

abouttobebanned wrote: »

It's explained for you above.

yes it is. but i was going for the slightly more serious answer.

abouttobebanned

stupidusername wrote: »

yes it is. but i was going for the slightly more serious answer.

There really isn't any. That's the point. There is no logic to it.

helen1

Is the bar in Dublin Airport opened on Good Friday

Captain Chaos

helen1 wrote: »

Is the bar in Dublin Airport opened on Good Friday

Only the departure lounge, get a cheap ticket to Germany where you can drink on gf, they just can't play music where drink is served on gf as law. Better than no drink.

doolox

...and the chances of it being changed are highly unlikely.
I remember being in Boston for one Good Friday and the pubs were open.
They couldn't believe that the pubs closed in Ireland on Good Friday.
When I was a kid Everything, cinemas, shops, restaurants, petrol stations etc, closed down on Good Friday and everyone was bored out of their heads.

Ceremonies went on for 3 hours!!!

Given Irelands fosillised politics it will probably take 100 years to change the rules and be done accidently on the back of a bigger law to avoid the eagle eyes of the right-wing do gooders

El Weirdo

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Only the departure lounge, get a cheap ticket to Germany where you can drink on gf, they just can't play music where drink is served on gf as law. Better than no drink.

If you're going to go to another country aren't you as well to just pop over to the UK where pubs are open as normal?

Duggy747

I like to have a few drinks at home every Friday, nice to settle into the weekend that way so I'm just going to get booze on the Thursday instead.

Plus, it'll be 5 years on Good Friday when I tore my hand apart and ripped the skin off the side of my middle finger. Ended up with nerve damage to the finger beside it..................*shudders*..............The delicious irony being it happened when I was with people who were drinking and I was the only one who decided not to drink :pac:

petes

El Weirdo wrote: »

If you're going to go to another country aren't you as well to just pop over to the UK where pubs are open as normal?

Down the North they aren't. Pubs don't open until 5 on good friday.

Also I will be having drinks that day. Stupid day if you ask me.

kfallon

No big deal about the pubs being closed on Good Friday, tbh I rather be fresh for an all dayer on Saturday than get sozzled Friday night and know going to the pub on Saturday that I prob won't last the day!

petes

kfallon wrote: »

No big deal about the pubs being closed on Good Friday, tbh I rather be fresh for an all dayer on Saturday than get sozzled Friday night and know going to the pub on Saturday that I prob won't last the day!

Lightweight!! :pac:

neil_hosey

Insurgent wrote: »

Down the North they aren't. Pubs don't open until 5 on good friday.

what the fúck does this mean?

kfallon

Insurgent wrote: »

Lightweight!! :pac:

I suppose if I was living in Dundalk like yourself I'd be down the pub every night getting hammered drowning my sorrows :pac:

AnonoBoy

Can you still buy beer on the train on Good Friday like you used to be able to do?



I think it was because Iarnród Éireann are a soverign state on to themselves, kinda like the Vatican but with more over-priced sandwiches and sh*tty coffee.

Snakeblood

neil_hosey wrote: »

what the fúck does this mean?

Turn your map upside down.

Geansai Rua

I work in a hotel and I have been told i have to work good friday!

Im bar staff...

Snakeblood

Geansai Rua wrote: »

I work in a hotel and I have been told i have to work good friday!

Im bar staff...

For god's sake, which hotel?

Geansai Rua

Ha im not gonna make work for myself...

My boss is scottish.. maybe he doesnt realise?

Or do residents in a hotel not get to purchase alcohol?

helen1

If you are staying in a hotel you are allowed buy drink

Geansai Rua

helen1 wrote: »

If you are staying in a hotel you are allowed buy drink

seamus

The new Government are quite pro-secular, so I think we'll see an end to this nonsense earlier than we think.

This time next year, we'll be sick of their crap, talking about the next general election and they'll lift the ban just in time for Good Friday and buy themselves another six months of love from the electorate.

Wazdakka

Gotta remember to get all the stock in for my traditional Good Friday drunken BBQ..

Hope the weather is good this year..

the groutch

OP = alcoholic

calf

Bars in train stations open just buy a ticket and the let you in

neil_hosey

im travellling to an island off galway where theres no garda.. wondering if they will open.

ibarelycare

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Can you still buy beer on the train on Good Friday like you used to be able to do?



I think it was because Iarnród Éireann are a soverign state on to themselves, kinda like the Vatican but with more over-priced sandwiches and sh*tty coffee.

Yeah you can, and bars in train stations serve alcohol to ticket holders on Good Friday too.

Geansai Rua wrote: »

I work in a hotel and I have been told i have to work good friday!

Im bar staff...

All hotels bars serve alcohol to residents on Good Friday.

Lapin

Geansai Rua wrote: »

I work in a hotel and I have been told i have to work good friday!

Im bar staff...

Are you really saying you didn't know that hotels can serve their residents on Good Friday ?

How did you get a job behind the bar ?

whatsamsn

Eever wrote: »

They have to stop serving ad midnight. Then on Friday, a lot of places open at midnight.

What?!
so come 12.01am on saturday 23rd clubs will open up again for around 2 and a half hours then close again?

Dravokivich

neil_hosey wrote: »

im travellling to an island off galway where theres no garda.. wondering if they will open.

If there's no garda, there probably isnt enough people on the island to run a pub.

cosanostra

helen1 wrote: »

If you are staying in a hotel you are allowed buy drink

Yeah but i think most hotels charge the drink onto the room so the purchase doesn't really take place until check out but as far as the laws concerned its legal to sell alcohol in a residents bar or an airport cause there not actually licenced as public bars

mikemac

Geansai Rua wrote: »

I work in a hotel and I have been told i have to work good friday!

Im bar staff...

Of course, you serve the residents
How did you get a job again?

Anyway, a quiet day is the perfect time for a bit of FIFO rotation, ask your boss about that
And a "deep clean". Not sure of the origin of the name but basically you empty every shelf, turn the bar asunder and clean every single corner and crevice, everything!

You're going to be working up a sweat on Good Friday

mgbgt1978

Remember the massive news last year when judge Tom O'Donnell of Limerick district court decided that Munster rugby was bigger than Jesus.
Because of a Magner's league match between Munster and Leinster that happened to coincide with Good Friday it was decreed that the pubs could open between 6pm and 11.30pm.

According to most of the publicans (even though the papers reported that people were being bussed in from as far afield as Kilkenny) it was the one of the quietest nights of the year.....although the off-licences made their usual killing on holy thursday;)

dvpower

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Why not. A lot of people choose to have parties on Good Friday. We aren't all into the holy zombie.

Is that a cocktail?

mikemac

Up until the 50's or maybe that was the 60's, pubs were closed on St Patricks Day.
Well it is for a saint after all.

A lot of lobbying was done as the tourists couldn't have a drink. So for the sake of the tourism industry the rule was lifted and now it's a big days for drinking.

I can imagine a government Minister trying to ban drinking on St Patricks Day in 2012 and boards.ie would explode in outrage!
But it was there once, a history lesson

im invisible

Insurgent wrote: »

Down the North they aren't.

neil_hosey wrote: »

what the fúck does this mean?

maybe he's from malin?

lecker Hendl

I did not know it was Good Friday next week. This thread has been very informative to me. Today is also Friday, and I did not drink. I probably won't make an exception next week.

Jesus saves...you money