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Easter Sunday

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  • 17-02-2012 11:03pm
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    Niamh2389
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    Do pubs or nightclubs be open ?
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    BeerNut
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    They be.

    Good Friday and Christmas Day are the only days they're forced to close.
    (These days, anyway. Up until 1962 it was illegal to serve drink on St Patrick's Day too. Better times...)

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    vicwatson
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    They be.

    Good Friday and Christmas Day are the only days they're forced to close.
    (These days, anyway. Up until 1962 it was illegal to serve drink on St Patrick's Day too. Better times...)


    Unless you went to the dog show in the RDS (or was that Good Friday?)!:rolleyes:


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    BeerNut
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    There seems to be some confusion and I can't find an original citation of the Behan anecdote, but I'd say St. Patrick's Day was more likely.
    Dublin Review of Books wrote:
    The Gaelic League campaigned way back when to close pubs on St Patrick’s Day, and their goal was achieved. Sixty years ago, the only place to get a drink in Dublin was, reputedly, the dog show at the RDS, and this was where you could find Brendan Behan, who had swung a “marking” from the Irish Press. “A great day out,” Brendan is reported to have said, “and a great place to meet all your friends. Funny place to bring a dog though.”

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    vicwatson
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    There seems to be some confusion and I can't find an original citation of the Behan anecdote, but I'd say St. Patrick's Day was more likely.


    Nearly sure it was St Patricks Day that my Dad used to say they would go to the RDS for the Dog Show as it was the only place in Dublin you could get a drink!


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