The Pav

listermint

Anyone know if the pav is open during the summer, i.e. tomorrow evening for example ??

NegativeCreep

I don't even go to trinity and I know it's open

wantacookie

I would just assume that if it is sunny it is open

FloatingVoter

I'd assume its open irrespective of the weather. Trinity is busy year round with passers -thru, tourists and postgrads.

Tears in Rain

FloatingVoter wrote: »

I'd assume its open irrespective of the weather. Trinity is busy year round with passers -thru, tourists and postgrads.

Technically "passers-thru and tourists" aren't allowed use the pav, nor are they particularly welcome by management; there have been summers past where security have gone round ID'ing people and kicking out non-staff/students.

Not that I particularly give a **** about non-Trinity people there, so long as the queue for the bar isn't too long.

MrPain

Tears in Rain wrote: »

Technically "passers-thru and tourists" aren't allowed use the pav, nor are they particularly welcome by management; there have been summers past where security have gone round ID'ing people and kicking out non-staff/students.

Is that due to licencing agreements? or just some policy?

bscm

MrPain wrote: »

Is that due to licencing agreements? or just some policy?

As far as I remember it's because it's technically owned/run/associated with DUCAC (profits go to DUCAC), so only members of the sports centre are supposed to be allowed in.

Also non-students can be underage, more so than actual students/staff.

Grid.

I thought anyone could ramble in and watch the cricket , have bought drinks a few times there no bother!

FloatingVoter

Funny that - I thought security only ran those checks when they wanted to get rid of someone, be they underage, too drunk or causing trouble.

zachaus

bscm wrote: »

As far as I remember it's because it's technically owned/run/associated with DUCAC (profits go to DUCAC), so only members of the sports centre are supposed to be allowed in.

Also non-students can be underage, more so than actual students/staff.

Actually it's a "club bar" not a public bar. DUCAC have the licence for a club bar. Non-members of DUCAC should be signed in by a member who will vouch for their behaviour (there's a black book behind the bar to record guests' names).

Nothing to do with the sports centre.

A mid-ranking Garda can technically object to the renewal of DUCAC's club licence if there was trouble (breach of licensing terms, intoxication, public order, underage drinking, etc.) But it's never come to that stage and the blatantly obvious status-quo (i.e. non-members using DUCAC's bar) continues.

Tears in Rain

I think in general they don't really mind or aren't really going to bother if there's a few people (probably mostly grads) having a few after work pints. But there was a big crackdown a few years back when it was obvious that the majority of people present (or close to the majority) were non-Trinity. So yeah, in general they don't care (unless you're doing something obviously stupid, like wearing a school uniform), but with the weather as it is, it wouldn't surprise me if they crackdown again as the pav gets more popular.