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Good Friday Drinking

  • 13-04-2017 4:17pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭


    How pathetic is it that people seek all kinds of avenues to have a drink on Good Friday, like hotel bars or train station bars?

    Its one day FFS


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    How pathetic is it that people seek all kinds of avenues to have a drink on Good Friday, like hotel bars or train station bars?

    Its one day FFS

    Don't worry its last year of it so hopefully less drink next year and booze sails are down.

    Funny how they are bringing in minimum pricing in the new legislation.

    That's been kept very quiet.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,822 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Last year for the full time sad bastards, might as well let them have it


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭PM me nudes


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    :rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭judeboy101


    Screw good Friday, why cant I buy beer at 9am any Sunday morn or go for a quick scoop Xmas morn before mass.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    judeboy101 wrote: »
    Screw good Friday, why cant I buy beer at 9am any Sunday morn or go for a quick scoop Xmas morn before mass.

    Set up your own bar in shed out back called manshed


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭Veloce


    A lad here in work has a Ryanair boarding pass to head to the airport and go drinking there. He's going with a few mates - no intention of boarding the aircraft.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭PM me nudes


    judeboy101 wrote: »
    Screw good Friday, why cant I buy beer at 9am any Sunday morn or go for a quick scoop Xmas morn before mass.

    Because some poor bastard would have to work on Christmas day to serve you the pint


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭judeboy101


    Set up your own bar in shed out back called manshed

    And serve myself? I want to pay for the pleasure of having a pint pulled for me by a minimum wage eastern European.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,844 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Someone wasn't invited for drinks tomorrow..


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭PM me nudes


    bear1 wrote: »
    Someone wasn't invited for drinks tomorrow..

    I don't live in Ireland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,844 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    I don't live in Ireland

    So why do you care?
    I really doubt it's simply because it's Good Friday, more that it's a Friday, a long weekend and the end of a tiring week at work and you need to unwind.
    Some people do that via drinking, some via sports/gym and others by bitching about it on a forum.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭PM me nudes


    Being Irish, and having spent the vast majority of my life there its something that I've always wondered.

    There's 363 other days of the year they can drink

    Is it something they do to appear cool? Like the boarding card guy mentioned above?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Site Banned Posts: 32 NeverTheLess


    What time do the pubs close tonight? It's not for drink I go out for?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    How pathetic is it that people seek all kinds of avenues to have a drink on Good Friday, like hotel bars or train station bars?

    Its one day FFS

    How pathetic is it that someone can't decide, as a grown man, to have a drink tomorrow.
    Very pathetic.

    If for religious, or personal reasons you don't want to drink on a certain day of the week, that is fine by me.

    However, I as a responsible adult should be allowed to drink, if I so wish.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭PM me nudes


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Lawlllll

    I have nothing against Ireland and I'm looking forward to moving back post university


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭empacher


    What time do the pubs close tonight? It's not for drink I go out for?

    12


  • Site Banned Posts: 32 NeverTheLess


    empacher wrote: »
    12
    Ah, it'll probably be a quite night. I'll leave the women off the hook!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,283 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    Veloce wrote: »
    A lad here in work has a Ryanair boarding pass to head to the airport and go drinking there. He's going with a few mates - no intention of boarding the aircraft.

    Are they insane.

    That seems mental behaviour to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Reputable Rog


    Some lovely Belgian blondes , dubbels and triples to wash down my Bratwurst, all sorted for tomorrow.
    Up the secular republic.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭PM me nudes


    mdwexford wrote: »
    Are they insane.

    That seems mental behaviour to me.

    Nah man, he's one of the lads #Banter


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭daheff


    How pathetic is it that someone can't decide, as a grown man, to have a drink tomorrow.
    Very pathetic.

    If for religious, or personal reasons you don't want to drink on a certain day of the week, that is fine by me.

    However, I as a responsible adult should be allowed to drink, if I so wish.

    nobody is stopping you having a drink tomorrow. All they are doing is prohibiting the sale of alcohol.

    If you want to drink tomorrow go buy your alcohol today and your problems are solved.

    If you are the responsible adult you are alluding to be, then a bit of grown up organisation will see you sorted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I'd say all the saddo's who have constantly complained about this over the last number of years will regret that they got their wish.

    From next year it'll just be an ordinary day like any other. Most people work on Good Friday and so will just go about their normal daily routine and so it won't make any difference to them but to those who were off that day or students/unemployed who made a day out of it heading to friends homes so they could have a drink at a party or whatever will have lost the social aspect of what good Friday has meant to a lot of people in the past.

    I'm from Donegal and years ago when I was in my teens and early 20's good Friday was the day we headed into Derry on the bus and had a few beers in some of the pubs and then got beer/whatever in an off licence and headed back home to someone's house where we continued drinking. That's now all gone now (not that I do that anymore) Good Friday will be forgotten and become another holy day to be ignored by the majority.

    Well done all the pathetic whingers who have succeeded in this pathetic quest.

    I'm guessing the same pathetic people will next focus their tiny minds on getting the pubs open on Christmas Day.


  • Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    How pathetic is it that someone can't decide, as a grown man, to have a drink tomorrow.
    Very pathetic.

    If for religious, or personal reasons you don't want to drink on a certain day of the week, that is fine by me.

    However, I as a responsible adult should be allowed to drink, if I so wish.

    Nobody is stopping you from drinking. There's no law forbidding you from drinking


  • Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭tonto24


    You're also not supposed to eat meat. It will not stop me chomping into a steak


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    I'm from Donegal and years ago when I was in my teens and early 20's good Friday was the day we headed into Derry on the bus and had a few beers in some of the pubs and then got beer/whatever in an off licence and headed back home to someone's house where we continued drinking. That's now all gone now (not that I do that anymore) Good Friday will be forgotten and become another holy day to be ignored by the majority.

    I was agreeing with you until you said holy day! Come on now, it being a holy day has nothing to do with you and your mates going to Derry!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    I'm from Donegal and years ago when I was in my teens and early 20's good Friday was the day we headed into Derry on the bus and had a few beers in some of the pubs and then got beer/whatever in an off licence and headed back home to someone's house where we continued drinking. That's now all gone now (not that I do that anymore) Good Friday will be forgotten and become another holy day to be ignored by the majority.

    I was agreeing with you until you said holy day! Come on now, it being a holy day has nothing to do with you and your mates going to Derry!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Noddyholder


    I'd say all the saddo's who have constantly complained about this over the last number of years will regret that they got their wish.

    From next year it'll just be an ordinary day like any other. Most people work on Good Friday and so will just go about their normal daily routine and so it won't make any difference to them but to those who were off that day or students/unemployed who made a day out of it heading to friends homes so they could have a drink at a party or whatever will have lost the social aspect of what good Friday has meant to a lot of people in the past.

    I'm from Donegal and years ago when I was in my teens and early 20's good Friday was the day we headed into Derry on the bus and had a few beers in some of the pubs and then got beer/whatever in an off licence and headed back home to someone's house where we continued drinking. That's now all gone now (not that I do that anymore) Good Friday will be forgotten and become another holy day to be ignored by the majority.

    Well done all the pathetic whingers who have succeeded in this pathetic quest.

    I'm guessing the same pathetic people will next focus their tiny minds on getting the pubs open on Christmas Day.

    That's it, Years ago when I was a chisler sure it was great craic trying to get into what bar & be able to boast about it the next day, even the lad going into Ryanair, sure its a bit of fun & devilment. Now were going just have a Friday, nothing good about it :o:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,844 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Being Irish, and having spent the vast majority of my life there its something that I've always wondered.

    There's 363 other days of the year they can drink

    Is it something they do to appear cool? Like the boarding card guy mentioned above?

    You say you are in university abroad, again I ask why do you care if people want to drink tomorrow?
    You seem to be exaggerating the entirety of it tbh.
    It's a 4 day weekend, people are obviously going to want to drink.
    Let them off with it, it doesn't even affect you in the slightest


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,505 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    How pathetic is it that people seek all kinds of avenues to have a drink on Good Friday, like hotel bars or train station bars?

    Its one day FFS

    All the yahoos are packing out the pubs as we speak in advance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    pilly wrote: »
    I was agreeing with you until you said holy day! Come on now, it being a holy day has nothing to do with you and your mates going to Derry!

    No you picked me up wrong or I came across wrong. I couldn't give a **** about the religious aspect of it, what I meant is that it will now be just like any of the rest of the religious holidays which have no bearing on the vast majority of people's lives and will be forgotten about. Up until now, rightly or wrongly it stood out from the rest because the pubs were closed. we looked forward to it as it was a day when we'd do something different to every other Friday in the year.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭dbagman


    I'm from Donegal and years ago when I was in my teens and early 20's good Friday was the day we headed into Derry on the bus and had a few beers in some of the pubs and then got beer/whatever in an off licence and headed back home to someone's house where we continued drinking. That's now all gone now (not that I do that anymore) Good Friday will be forgotten and become another holy day to be ignored by the majority.

    Well done all the pathetic whingers who have succeeded in this pathetic quest.

    I'm guessing the same pathetic people will next focus their tiny minds on getting the pubs open on Christmas Day.

    I'm from Donegal and years ago when I was in my teens and early 20's good Friday was the day we headed into Derry on the bus and had a few beers in some of the pubs and then got beer/whatever in an off licence and headed back home to someone's house where we continued drinking. That's now all gone now (not that I do that anymore) Good Friday will be forgotten and become another holy day to be ignored by the majority.

    Well done all the pathetic whingers who have succeeded in this pathetic quest.

    I'm guessing the same pathetic people will next focus their tiny minds on getting the pubs open on Christmas Day.


    I'm confused.....people wanting to have the choice of having a drink tommorrow are pathetic. Yet you also claim that having the pubs open will ruin it for people like yourself that (used to or still do) bus it to the 6 counties to get smashed in a pub there ( you're not going out of your way for a couple of pints. Let's be honest) then stock up and go home and binge drink some more??

    Wow. Double standards much???


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭PM me nudes


    bear1 wrote: »
    You say you are in university abroad, again I ask why do you care if people want to drink tomorrow?
    You seem to be exaggerating the entirety of it tbh.
    It's a 4 day weekend, people are obviously going to want to drink.
    Let them off with it, it doesn't even affect you in the slightest

    Why do you care about me caring?

    I find the incessant need of some to go to the pub tomorrow strange, that's all.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 27,571 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Why do you care about me caring?

    I find the incessant need of some to go to the pub tomorrow strange, that's all.

    There are a host of reasons behind it. I imagine even a casual pub goer might be annoyed if tomorrow is an occasion that he would like to frequent a pub and is unable to for essentially purely religious reasons. The denial of choice is frustrating.

    Those who go to great lengths to find a drinking establishment possibly just enjoy the adventure of it as much as anything. Rather than an inability to go one day without drinking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Why do you feel so strongly about it? LIke seriously, who is forcing you to drink tomorrow or go to the pub next year when they're open? Look after your own house and less of the outrage about what other people do when it has absolutely no bearing on you.

    I think you picked me up wrong. I don't drink anymore so I couldn't care less. What I meant was is that I think they should have left it as it is because for most of those complaining about the pubs being closed it had become a day where it was a bit of fun to go to other people's houses for a drink rather than the pub, or to the airport or a hotel or whatever. For us when we were young it meant a day out in Derry and a house party afterwards. It was a social fun day out, now that's been lost and it just becomes another ordinary day. People will go about their day as normal, they might go out that night to the pubs or clubs but it won't be any different to any other night they
    Go out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Noddyholder


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    There are a host of reasons behind it. I imagine even a casual pub goer might be annoyed if tomorrow is an occasion that he would like to frequent a pub and is unable to for essentially purely religious reasons. The denial of choice is frustrating.

    Those who go to great lengths to find a drinking establishment possibly just enjoy the adventure of it as much as anything. Rather than an inability to go one day without drinking.


    The pubs are not closed for religious religions now, there closed because of state law, so when the state changes the law, they can open.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 27,571 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    The pubs are not closed for religious religions now, there closed because of state law, so when the state changes the law, they can open.

    A law with no grounding or reason apart from a religious one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    Is minimum pricing coming in? That's gonna be disastrous. It will be around 15€ for 6 cans.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    dbagman wrote: »
    I'm confused.....people wanting to have the choice of having a drink tommorrow are pathetic. Yet you also claim that having the pubs open will ruin it for people like yourself that (used to or still do) bus it to the 6 counties to get smashed in a pub there ( you're not going out of your way for a couple of pints. Let's be honest) then stock up and go home and binge drink some more??

    Wow. Double standards much???

    How is it double standards? We enjoyed good Friday as it was a day out. I never complained about the pubs being closed here as we made other arrangements. I think people should embrace the day as 'a pubs closed day make other arrangements' sort of day whereas from now on it's just another day.

    I think it's pathetic that so many people complained about it rather than just getting on with it and making their own arrangements.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    What's pathetic is complaining about people wanting to get a ridiculous law changed when you just ignored that law anyway and hopped over the border, while those not living in border counties had to just suck it up.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    daheff wrote: »
    nobody is stopping you having a drink tomorrow. All they are doing is prohibiting the sale of alcohol.

    If you want to drink tomorrow go buy your alcohol today and your problems are solved.

    If you are the responsible adult you are alluding to be, then a bit of grown up organisation will see you sorted.

    Why am I prevented from buying alcohol tomorrow if I so wish?
    What justification is there for it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,504 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    Its pretty damn sad if you need some excuse to go and have a good time with your friends.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 106 ✭✭Luggnuts


    How pathetic is it that people seek all kinds of avenues to have a drink on Good Friday, like hotel bars or train station bars?

    Its one day FFS

    What about those who only want to drink on one day?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    This annoys two kinds of people. Alcoholics and those who think it's cool human rights issue to fight for. A bit pathetic in either case.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,739 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    90 years ago it might have seemed like a good idea, in 2017 it's time to scrap it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Noddyholder


    Its taken the good out of Friday.


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