Pubs to open on Good Friday

splinter65

martingriff wrote: »

The hour to cash your cheque is long gone over 5 years. Since I started in Revenue we never got the 6th or 8th whichever it was off as an extra day (except teachers if kids off). We used to get day after st. Stephens day but noþ anymore. I started in 2007. Never got cheque time

He wasn’t in Revenue

Zerbini Blewitt

Old uncle Charlie, my wife & I will be perambulating down to our local ale house at 11am on Good Friday next. It will be my first drink - before 1pm, in a pub - since one Summer Saturday morning in 1999 in Dublin city centre.

I will raise my glass of distilled Blue Agave plant to each of the wise, brave men who foresaw the incorrectness of the proposed ban - some of those voted against the intoxicating liquor bill on the committee on finance, third stage on Tuesday, 1st March 1927 namely:

John Daly.
Séamus Eabhróid.
David Hall.
Séamus Mac Cosgair.
Patrick J. Mulvany.
Tomás de Nógla.
William Norton.
Ailfrid O Broin.
Tomás O Conaill.
Aodh O Cúlacháin.
Eamon O Dubhghaill.
Seán O Laidhin.
Domhnall O Muirgheasa.
Tadhg O Murchadha.
Pádraig O hOgáin (An Clár).
William A. Redmond.

They have been vindicated. Slainte.

It will also be a modest yet solemn tribute to dedicated, hard drinkers down the ages who suffered this 90 year reign of terror with stoic acceptance.

KKkitty

Sam Quentin wrote: »

As a good Irish Catholic, I think it's a disgrace shame on 'whomever' passed this or had a hand in it!?
I hope these people don't show their faces at any family Catholic Church christenings, weddings, funerals etc etc
It should have been put to a vote instead of totally disrespecting the Catholic Church like that.......

Like the Catholic Church has shown its followers respect over the years of their monopoly on pretty much everything they could or were allowed to control? Go to your local church on Good Friday and go home afterwards like you've always done.

Sam Quentin

One day ONE BLOODY DAY... It's a disgrace..... Good Catholics wouldn't vote for this....

martingriff

splinter65 wrote: »

He wasn’t in Revenue

Which part of the public service was he

martingriff

YFlyer wrote: »

The pubs in Limerick were packed with people from all over for the Munster match on Good Friday and most of them had no interest in rugby.

That's because the pubs opened and they thought great I would go. I can say most of those pubs were packed as a rugby match was on. I have been to rugby match as seem people just because a match is on and don't give a walkabout rugby and that to the game.

Sam Quentin

No respect at all for the Catholic faith..
And when I think of all the Catholic church including our Wonderful nuns have done for this Country..

wexie

Sam Quentin wrote: »

No respect at all for the Catholic faith..

Respect has to be earned Sam

doolox

The church has been and remains a bane on the general running of this country.

Ireland is not a Catholic republic and never aspired to be one.

TD's when framing laws have a duty to represent the lifestyles and customs of all our citizens.

Legally enforcing a ban on a heavily regulated commercial activity for religious purposes is fundamentally wrong.

lertsnim

Sam Quentin wrote: »

No respect at all for the Catholic faith..
And when I think of all the Catholic church including our Wonderful nuns have done for this Country..

Poor effort. 1/10

Shenshen

Sam Quentin wrote: »

No respect at all for the Catholic faith..
And when I think of all the Catholic church including our Wonderful nuns have done for this Country..

Not allowing people of other faiths to drink alcohol in a public house on Good Friday is, as far as I know, not exactly a main pillar of Catholicism.

Sam Quentin

Where is it all gonna end, I use to be proud to tell people that on Good Friday in Ireland all pubs close for religious reasons and in respect of our Catholic faith(OUR VERY STRONG CATHOLIC FAITH).....
But now I don't know what to do. How can I explain this total turn around and lack of respect for my Irish Catholic Faith?

Gonzales the mouse

Will the lifting of the Good Friday ban also apply to off-licences or will they still be prohibited from opening? If so, then it is grossly unfair and should be fought all the way to ECJ.

pjohnson

Gonzales the mouse wrote: »

Will the lifting of the Good Friday ban also apply to off-licences or will they still be prohibited from opening? If so, then it is grossly unfair and should be fought all the way to ECJ.

Lets just make drink 24/7 available. Only way to be. Human rights and all that eh?

wexie

Sam Quentin wrote: »

Where is it all gonna end

Hopefully in a society free from religious nutjobs that believe that their completely random belief in an imaginary sky creature gives them the right to tell other people how to live their lives.

Wouldn't that be something :cool:

pjohnson

wexie wrote: »

Hopefully in a society free from religious nutjobs that believe that their completely random belief in an imaginary sky creature gives them the right to tell other people how to live their lives.

Wouldn't that be something :cool:

Yep. 24 hours without being able to visit a pub. You wouldn't get that treatment in Abu Ghraib

Shenshen

pjohnson wrote: »

Yep. 24 hours without being able to visit a pub. You wouldn't get that treatment in Abu Ghraib

I haven't been in a pub in about 6 months at this point. But I don't appreciate being told I can't go, and the only reason given to justify that is "it's only 24 hours, sure". If it's that inconsequential, why bother denying it to people?

KKkitty

Sam Quentin wrote: »

Where is it all gonna end, I use to be proud to tell people that on Good Friday in Ireland all pubs close for religious reasons and in respect of our Catholic faith(OUR VERY STRONG CATHOLIC FAITH).....
But now I don't know what to do. How can I explain this total turn around and lack of respect for my Irish Catholic Faith?

Speak for yourself! Not all of us in Ireland have strong or even moderate Catholic faith. Just because pubs will be open it doesn't mean you have to go into one. You have that choice.

wexie

KKkitty wrote: »

You have that choice.

Which (as far as I'm concerned) is the only thing this argument has ever been about.

What many religious people seem to (conveniently) forget is that freedom of religion also means freedom from religion.

KKkitty

wexie wrote: »

Which (as far as I'm concerned) is the only thing this argument has ever been about.

What many religious people seem to (conveniently) forget is that freedom of religion also means freedom from religion.

Exactly. I'm all for keeping pubs closed for Christmas day though. It's a time for a lot of families to be together.

Sam Quentin

I pray nobody gets hurt in a drunken fight or accident in what's going to be just another drunken night on Irelands streets..

wexie

Sam Quentin wrote: »

I pray nobody gets hurt in a drunken fight or accident in what's going to be just another drunken night on Irelands streets..

Pray away Samuel, you are free to do so.

Just as we are now free to go to the pub on Good Friday, get bollox drunk and then go home to worship Satan, L Ron Hubbard or JK Rowling

Edward M

wexie wrote: »

Pray away Samuel, you are free to do so.

Just as we are now free to go to the pub on Good Friday, get bollox drunk and then go home to worship Satan, L Ron Hubbard or JK Rowling

Of course the pubs being allowed to open on good Friday is only right, drink has been widely available for years in hotels and restaurants anyway, if you wanted one you got it.
But you can't just get bollox drunk without being outside the law really in any pub or anyplace you like, there are offences to cover this.
Be careful out there!
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1994/act/2/section/4/enacted/en/html

Sam Quentin

I worry for Irelands future, all our morals and good Catholic values, seem to be slipping away...
Like if people want the life that they seem to be promoting for Ireland, then they should head off to places like Amsterdam or maybe Bangkok that seem to cater more for that 'way' of life!?!?
Anyway I pray for us all.....

PopePalpatine

Nah, I can't be arsed learning Thai.

Cantona's Collars

Sam Quentin wrote: »

I worry for Irelands future, all our morals and good Catholic values, seem to be slipping away...
Like if people want the life that they seem to be promoting for Ireland, then they should head off to places like Amsterdam or maybe Bangkok that seem to cater more for that 'way' of life!?!?
Anyway I pray for us all.....

I think you should pray or better still go to mass and witness the priest drink wine at the altar.
At last we are throwing off the trappings of old Ireland which basically encouraged us to wallow in our guilt. I doubt we are going to see the country descend into anarchy because the government saw sense and did away with a law that was archaic even when it was dreamt up.

pemay

pemay

pemay wrote: »

If we aren't between stage C and D I'll eat my own feet

But its all in the name of "progress" they'll say, without realising its a circle. A circle that's bringing us toward the collapse of society.

Buts don't worry, the good Friday thing is only a tree, never mind the forest!

Spanish Eyes

KKkitty wrote: »

Exactly. I'm all for keeping pubs closed for Christmas day though. It's a time for a lot of families to be together.

Sometimes families are thrown together for Christmas Day whether they like it or not! Can cause ructions....

I am not saying that pubs being open on that day will solve this, but there is absolutely nothing available on Christmas Day for escape purposes apart from a long walk. And that is weather dependent too.

doolox

How I hate that phrase. People do not seem to realise that nothing was open on Good Friday. Shops, theatres ( except some of the highbrow theatres for the so called "better classes", cinemas, dance-halls and all sorts of entertainment including TV were closed down on Good Friday. The rich could book a meal in a hotel and get what they wanted through the sheer force of privilege and money.

It was like Stalinist Communism and a study in creating misery and guilt and the worst form of puritanical perversion. A religion full of guilt and coercion and not an infinitesimal quantum of love, inclusion, compassion or brotherly love. The way that Christ would have actually wanted it.

And all this time while ordinary people were wallowing in misery due to the complete lack of any diversion, nuns were in engaging in slave labour and incarceration of "fallen" women, priests were sodomising any vulnerable people they could find and secrecy, mendacity and corruption ruled.

Some worship at the altar of the God of Laws. The accountant God who will hold up a clipboard of our sins on the day of judgement and condemn most to a fiery end.

Others I know of a religious persuasion worship at the altar of the God of Love, a Divinity capable of infinite compassion and forgiveness who wants us to enjoy our brief time in this frame of existence and is above petty point scoring on the issue of people having a few pints on a particular Friday night.