Whats the Story With Coppers???

ashleyswhisky

I have heard that Gardai have told coppers to close at 3am like every other nightclub and to stop this continuing serving of alcohol to people after hours. I noticed that they now opening at 10pm now instead.

Anyone else hear this...........Taxi drivers said last few day after 3.30am its dead up there with no taxi or people around

LordSutch

When I saw the title I was hoping this was going to be about the Fuzz or the Plod

Coppers...

The J Stands for Jay

Coppers is adhering to the licencising laws?

I don't believe it.

Gardai do their job and tell Coppers to obey the law?

But isn't that where they go to pick up nurses? Must be a huge rift in the forces over this one. Is it affecting morale?

pajero12

ashleyswhisky wrote: »

I have heard that Gardai have told coppers to close at 3am like every other nightclub and to stop this continuing serving of alcohol to people after hours. I noticed that they now opening at 10pm now instead.

Anyone else hear this...........Taxi drivers said last few day after 3.30am its dead up there with no taxi or people around

It's exam season for students, Thats why the place is quiet

hairyslug

The copper who owns coppers has fallen foul of the coppers

The_Valeyard

Yeah, the gardai have relocated to The Workmans in recent months.

Alf Stewart.

Coppers will soon be a thing of the past.

What with all this rounding up and down malarkey.

ashleyswhisky

Spoke to a taxi driver this morning and ge said its coming from the chief super intendant. They were brought to kevin street for meeting and told that they must close at 2.30 and clear by 3am. Apparently they have had enough of anti social problems at 4-5-6-7 in morning

ashleyswhisky

I for one not surprized they got away with it for so long but be inreresting to see how long it lasts

ashleyswhisky

Thing is people are not killing each other at 5-6-7 in morning there. Harcourt street sadly now is a sespit to be around late

yourdeadwright

Is Harcourt street that bad now ?
It used to be fairly tame compared to other parts of the city at closing time,
Anyone been to the Blackdoor ?

El Weirdo

LordSutch wrote: »

When I saw the title I was hoping this was going to be about the Fuzz or the Plod

Coppers...

Fixed.

CabanSail

I used to stay in a flat near there. The bedroom window was just above where people would hail taxi's. Some of the drunken conversations were very funny if I wasn't so pissed off being woken up at stupid o'clock to hear them.

Badly Drunk Boy

LordSutch wrote: »

When I saw the title I was hoping this was going to be about the Fuzz or the Plod

Coppers...

I thought it was going to be about our most worthless coinage.

maudgonner

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I thought it was going to be about our most worthless coinage.

I thought it was going to be about whether a pregnant woman can really demand their hat to pee in it

Odyssey 2005

ashleyswhisky wrote: »

Spoke to a taxi driver this morning and ge said its coming from the chief super intendant. They were brought to kevin street for meeting and told that they must close at 2.30 and clear by 3am. Apparently they have had enough of anti social problems at 4-5-6-7 in morning

If a taxi driver told me the time I'd have to look at my watch. They must have a spy in every facet of human life...and impose their beliefs on everyone

gormdubhgorm

I don't get the obsession with cooper's. It is just another nightclub!
Does it owe it's popularity to the fact that the likes of Flannery's and CFJ are the places where lost culchies gravitate to when they first come up to the " big shmooke"?
Then the others just attend the place ironically?
You would swear it is the only night club in Dublin!
There are plenty of overcrowded nightclubs, with watery overpriced drinks, that people can go to in the hope/expectation of a ride.

Red Kev

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Does it owe it's popularity to the fact that the likes of Flannery's and CFJ are the places where lost culchies gravitate to when they first come up to the " big shmooke"?.

The biggest single piece of publicity it got was a "See yiz all in Copper's" from Alan Brogan when he was making his speech after winning the All Ireland with Dublin.

So no, it's not a "culchie" thing.

gormdubhgorm

Red Kev wrote: »

The biggest single piece of publicity it got was a "See yiz all in Copper's" from Alan Brogan when he was making his speech after winning the All Ireland with Dublin.

So no, it's not a "culchie" thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMrFeocPN1o
It was Bryan Cullen.
What I meant was has its popularity and myth originated with the culchies and the others just followed along for the craic? It seems to get a lot of "celebrity" endorsements like this.
Do Irish celebrities have to bring no money to coppers or what?
I remember in the speech you refer to Cullen said the owner of coppers "looked after them well" and deserved a plug.

sabat

ashleyswhisky wrote: »

Spoke to a taxi driver this morning and ge said its coming from the chief super intendant. They were brought to kevin street for meeting and told that they must close at 2.30 and clear by 3am.

I wonder if the next time I'm blatantly breaking the law I'll get an appointment with the chief super informing me I'll have to stop.

Red Kev

sabat wrote: »

I wonder if the next time I'm blatantly breaking the law I'll get an appointment with the chief super informing me I'll have to stop.

Sometimes "Walk softly and carry a big stick" is the best policy. And far more effective.

CWF

My mate is a door man in Diceys, for his sins, and said Diceys will soon have to follow suit.

ToddyDoody

I like Coppers. You can talk drunkenly to people about DIY.

MadDog76

ashleyswhisky wrote: »

I have heard that Gardai have told coppers to close at 3am like every other nightclub and to stop this continuing serving of alcohol to people after hours. I noticed that they now opening at 10pm now instead.

Anyone else hear this...........Taxi drivers said last few day after 3.30am its dead up there with no taxi or people around

It's dead outside ......... but inside it's still full of off-duty Gardai, Nurses, Culchies, Students ........... all better known as "Hotel Residents".

MadDog76

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

I don't get the obsession with cooper's. It is just another nightclub!
Does it owe it's popularity to the fact that the likes of Flannery's and CFJ are the places where lost culchies gravitate to when they first come up to the " big shmooke"?
Then the others just attend the place ironically?
You would swear it is the only night club in Dublin!
There are plenty of overcrowded nightclubs, with watery overpriced drinks, that people can go to in the hope/expectation of a ride.

Back in my partying days I used to frequent Coppers quite regularly, as it was the only place guaranteed to be busy every night of the week .......... wouldn't bother with the place Friday/Saturday nights but it was a must on a Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday night if you wanted to go out and pretend it actually was Saturday night!
The reason it was so busy/popular was down to the reputation of it being so busy/popular ......... everybody thought, "Let's go to Coppers, it'll be busy there ........." and it was that very thinking that made it so busy.
How they got that (goldmine) reputation I don't know but once they had it then it just fed itself night after night.

topper75

Maybe this place is the National Nightclub or something.

If I started a thread about some place in Moate, Thurles, or Kenmare, would it be tolerated by After Hours mods in the way this kind of thing is? Doubt it.

Fr_Dougal

Licensing laws in Ireland are ridiculous. If everyone wasn't bailing out at the same time looking for taxis you wouldn't have half the issues.

harry Bailey esq

maudgonner wrote: »

I thought it was going to be about whether a pregnant woman can really demand their hat to pee in it

I was anticipating something along the same lines when I nervously opened the thread.So you are not the only one slightly disappointed friend.

leakyboots

Awful ****hole of a place, was in there once, not for me. Surprised it's lasted this long with the later hours

MadDog76

topper75 wrote: »

Maybe this place is the National Nightclub or something.

If I started a thread about some place in Moate, Thurles, or Kenmare, would it be tolerated by After Hours mods in the way this kind of thing is? Doubt it.

They have nightclubs down there!!?!!?!!! :eek:

Why???

topper75

MadDog76 wrote: »

They have nightclubs down there!!?!!?!!! :eek:

Why???

Yeah. And I've seen them cycle bicycles too.

esforum

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Licensing laws in Ireland are ridiculous. If everyone wasn't bailing out at the same time looking for taxis you wouldn't have half the issues.

yep, worked a treat in Manchester, didnt just result in the emergency services being stretched thin for longer period of time at all and arrests and hospital patients didnt increase either. :rolleyes:

oppenheimer1

I thought all those late opening places had a special dance hall licence or something like that, that allowed them to stay open later. I somehow doubt they were blatantly flouting the law. Every other club owner would have been up in arms if they did and would have objected to the license renewal

Specialun

Shouldnt this be in the dublin forum

hatrickpatrick

F*ck, I sincerely hope this isn't true :eek:

Esel

Coppers /= After Hours anymore.

bigpink

Is that not closing time anyway

esforum

the handful of times I was there we were ****ed out at normal time.

Not liking nightclubs in general, my visits can be counted on one hand though so no expert

VincePP

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

There are plenty of overcrowded nightclubs, with watery overpriced drinks, that people can go to in the hope/expectation of a ride.

See, THAT'S the difference.

Other clubs you go in HOPE.

In Coppers its GUARANTEED

hatrickpatrick

I'll be out on Harcourt tonight and I'll verify whether or not this is actually true. Will be raging if it is, tbh. Coppers isn't my thing, but the fact that Coppers has always got away with late opening has meant that every other Nightclub in the Stephen's Green area has been able to do the same, all the way as far as places like Baggot St and Wexford St. If the 2.30-3AM closing time starts getting enforced, nights out in Dublin will go back to being as boring as they were back in 2008-2009. :mad:

armaghlad

Try going out in Belfast...

bigpink

armaghlad wrote: »

Try going out in Belfast...

Explain?

diograis

Sad news all together, very sad

hatrickpatrick

It doesn't seem to be entirely true. Last night it seemed to close a bit after 4. DJ of a nearby club told me that the Harcourt clubs did get a bit of a talking to but that it's generally 4AM, not 2.30, that they have to kick everyone out by.

A lot of the clubs around there are part of large hotels, and essentially because hotel residents bars are allowed to operate outside the normal licensing hours, and because it's pretty much impossible when people are leaving the club to determine who's a resident and who isn't, it's almost impossible to enforce. At least six of the big Harcourt clubs are attached to hotels.

I won't specify which one I was in for obvious reasons, but I happily got a pint at around 4AM

If anything, what might become a little stricter for a while until it's forgotten about it admission times. IE, you'll no longer see big queues to get in to Coppers at 3.30, they'll probably have to stop admitting new people at ~3 to maintain the facade of it being residents only after that.

Delighted that it isn't so bad tbh, OP's post gave me a mini heart attack yesterday. Nightlife in Dublin ~2009 when the 2.30 thing was actually enforced was incredibly bleak.

EDIT: actually there would be one positive if they really did reign it in properly - the return of the lock-in. Once the clubs got over the initial shock of the 2.30 rule, around 2011-2013 there were a bunch of clubs in Dublin which did clandestine lock-ins, where they'd put down the shutters, lower the music volume and turn off a lot of the lights in order to appear closed. They would then sneak people out the back door, usually an emergency exit, when people were leaving.

Always got a bit of a thrill out of feeling like we were f*cking the establishment. So it'd at least be a bit of fun if that became the norm again for late nights.

Swan Curry

Pushing even more people out onto Harcourt St. at the exact same time is probably the worst thing they could do to prevent antisocial behaviour. That street is already packed when the rest of the clubs empty out.

armaghlad

bigpink wrote: »

Explain?

At 4am in Belfast you'll be in your pit