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Good Friday Drinking

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    #122
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,347 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    anna080 wrote: »
    Afaik, you can still buy alcohol on xmas day. A petrol station in my town opens up for an hour after mass and they make more money selling wine than they do petrol.

    Nope selling alcohol on Christmas Day is illegal.
    pilly wrote: »
    Shops are open Good Friday.

    At night?
    ChunkyLover54 wrote: »
    it was nice to have one night a year apart from Christmas day where one could walk around a city centre in this country and not have an uneasy feeling you're about to be screamed at...or barged into...or clocked on the head.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #123
    Omackeral
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    diomed wrote: »
    What about freedom to practice any religion?

    Yeah you're still free to not drink if you don't want to. That's the whole point, the choice is taken away in principle with this law. It shouldn't be. If it's abolished and you wanna keep practicing your religion as far as Good Friday goes you can! You don't wanna drink, don't. Nobody is forcing you to.


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    #124
    retro:electro
    Registered Users Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Why is the drink covered by big black bin bags in the shops? Are they afraid we'll get drunk by looking at it?


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    #125
    Luggnuts
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 106 ✭✭Luggnuts


    PM me nudes wrote: »
    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

    Bitterly disappointed that someone might want to do something that has no effect on you whatsoever?


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    #126
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    anna080 wrote: »
    Why is the drink covered by big black bin bags in the shops? Are they afraid we'll get drunk by looking at it?

    Super valu done it by using toilet rolls and the prize was if you bought them all you could look but not buy any booze.


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    #127
    retro:electro
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Super valu done it by using toilet rolls and the prize was if you bought them all you could look but not buy any booze.

    Or you could run and take a mad dive through all the jacks roll and grab all the booze you can. Cosy.
    Trying to get the cute Andrex puppies to distract me from the booze how dare


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    #128
    punisher5112
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    anna080 wrote: »
    Or you could run and take a mad dive through all the jacks roll and grab all the booze you can. Cosy.
    Trying to get the cute Andrex puppies to distract me from the booze how dare

    Not smash and grab its soft and grab
    ....


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    #129
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    My local supermarket made an effort with some flowering plants on combies (think that's the spelling?). Still wanted to break through them shouting 'freedom' though!


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    #130
    osarusan
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    Had my whiskey poured and was watching the clock tick down to midnight.

    #IsurvivedGoodFriday


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    #131
    Patty O Furniture
    Registered Users Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭Patty O Furniture


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    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.

    Whether it's religious or law,

    It's bizarre that you can get a drink in the HQ that is the Vatican ;)

    But not here, although was the subsidized Dail Bar open for a sly one ;)
    even though some TD's didn't pay tab & had to be chased for bill when made public:(
    Noddyholder wrote: »
    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.

    There was once the pubs closed btwn 2-4 on Sundays, a bugger when watching football, who set the rules then :confused:


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    #132
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,105 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    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.
    Your colleague is very sad.

    To thine own self be true



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    #133
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,105 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    How do restaurants fare out on GF?
    Like the posh ones that would have a lot of wine revenue?
    I heard on TV today about UK stag and hens just wandering around Temple Bar on previous GFs.. Surely that must be the biggest kick in teeth ever..Mwahahahaha..

    To thine own self be true



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    #134
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,105 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    How do restaurants fare out on GF?
    Like the posh ones that would have a lot of wine revenue?
    I heard on TV today about UK stag and hens just wandering around Temple Bar on previous GFs.. Surely that must be the biggest kick in teeth ever..Mwahahahaha..

    To thine own self be true



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    #135
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,105 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Sorry for double post

    To thine own self be true



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    #136
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Because self righteousness is strongest of all among people who emigrate. They love to look back here, but only if it's down through their nose.

    I've picked up a trend from your posts across a couple of threads. You hate people who have emigrated. What happened Pat? Bitter that the opportunity passed you by? Maybe you still have time to see a bit of the world.

    Grow up a bit. Your talking through your hoop with such generalisations.


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    #137
    jdmkol
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    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.
    How do him and his mates get out of the airport afterwards ? Didn't think it was that easy to just exit an airport after checking in and going through security.


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    #138
    __Alex__
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭__Alex__


    Never understood the intimation that you're an alcoholic if you complain about this law. Have any of yizzer ever met an alcoholic? They are the least likely people to be caught out by Good Friday. Alcoholic being foremost in their mind, they'll make damn sure to be stocked up.

    To consider critics of the law to have alcoholic leanings is to misunderstand entirely.


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    #139
    testicles
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    #140
    OldMrBrennan83
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    #141
    Reputable Rog
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    testicles wrote: »
    There are no pubs in the Vatican.

    Not true, there is a bar and a number of restaurants/cafeteria, all of which sell alcohol, including on Good Friday .


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    #142
    Noddyholder
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    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Have to agree with Pat he hates people especially Northern Ones :P & to be fair to him he is constant in his hating :)


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    OldMrBrennan83
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    #144
    Hoboo
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    jdmkol wrote: »
    How do him and his mates get out of the airport afterwards ? Didn't think it was that easy to just exit an airport after checking in and going through security.

    It's no problem. He missed his flight.


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    #145
    Losty Dublin
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    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    How do restaurants fare out on GF?
    Like the posh ones that would have a lot of wine revenue?
    I heard on TV today about UK stag and hens just wandering around Temple Bar on previous GFs.. Surely that must be the biggest kick in teeth ever..Mwahahahaha..

    The main loss for would be the footfall of those who choose not to go out on the da, not the loss of alcohol sales. Many places opened but are far quieter than other weekends. Generally Easter weekend is slower for licenced premises over the whole weekend though some bars outside of the city centre tend to do well on Sunday and Monday.

    As for the stags and hens, if they can't plan ahead them screw them and their pink t shirts and fake dildos :D


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    #146
    lawred2
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    jdmkol wrote: »
    How do him and his mates get out of the airport afterwards ? Didn't think it was that easy to just exit an airport after checking in and going through security.

    And what would happen if you genuinely missed your flight?

    Locked in departures forever?


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    #147
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,105 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    How do restaurants fare out on GF?
    Like the posh ones that would have a lot of wine revenue?
    I heard on TV today about UK stag and hens just wandering around Temple Bar on previous GFs.. Surely that must be the biggest kick in teeth ever..Mwahahahaha..

    The main loss for would be the footfall of those who choose not to go out on the da, not the loss of alcohol sales. Many places opened but are far quieter than other weekends. Generally Easter weekend is slower for licenced premises over the whole weekend though some bars outside of the city centre tend to do well on Sunday and Monday.

    As for the stags and hens, if they can't plan ahead them screw them and their pink t shirts and fake dildos :D
    I always thought those dildos were run real :0

    To thine own self be true



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    Fred Swanson
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    #149
    Samaris
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    Had no idea this was in the works. About time, tbh. The law is outdated and is a religious imposition on everyone affected by it. The nonsense that goes on about stocking up drink on the Thursday is also ridiculous mind, so I never had a huge amount of sympathy. But overall, it's time the rule was retired.


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    #150
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,105 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    I'm surprised some Paddy hasn't taken this complaint to the European Court of Human Rights before.

    To thine own self be true



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    #151
    Samaris
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    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    I'm surprised some Paddy hasn't taken this complaint to the European Court of Human Rights before.
    In theory, he might have gotten somewhere with it, I guess? Our Constitution talks about being a secular state, but Good Friday laws are a religious imposition enforced by the government (well, the State's police force). While on the scale of religious control on a society, it's pretty near the bottom, I suppose it could have opened a fair can of worms.


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