Opening of "No-Food" pubs pushed out again

Suckit

Hard to argue for the new rules. If anything it made the push back even harder.
Stupid idea and ridiculous that they followed through with it. That nobody anywhere along the process questioned it...

listermint

PommieBast wrote: »

Even though the government is pushing for people to return to work, a lot of people are taking matters into their own hands and continuing to self-isolate.
My brother reports that though the nurseries are now open, they are now only part-time due to the much reduced customer base.



The whole government and civil service seems to fail to understand that people want and need to get on with their lives. If the situation today is going to remain much the same until late-2021 or 2022 as claimed in the Mirror, I am simply going to spend that time over in the UK. Least I can get on with things there.

Get on with things... Brexit will absolutely hammer the UK . There won't be a mega lot of getting on with things.

Atlantic Dawn

freak scence wrote: »

kerry publicans marching on dail next Wednesday fair ****s to them

They should dump 10 kegs of Guinness outside the Dail in to the drains, it would get them on global media

cadaliac

Suckit wrote: »

Hard to argue for the new rules. If anything it made the push back even harder.
Stupid idea and ridiculous that they followed through with it. That nobody anywhere along the process questioned it...

What push back?
And who did (or did not) push back?
I agree with you that it is ridiculous.

Suckit

cadaliac wrote: »

What push back?
And who did (or did not) push back?
I agree with you that it is ridiculous.

The push back against their rules.
They had many people onside imo with the non-food pubs remaining closed to slow down the virus. Even if they didn't agree with it fully.
For example, I didn't agree with some of the pubs opening and some remaining closed just because they served food or didn't, as opposed to having a more valid reason, like three strike policy or anything else that I can't think of atm.
I thought it would have been better to have all pubs closed or all pubs open with the same restrictions (obviously not the €9 meal), but I understood they didn't, to help slow the virus down and stop it from spreading.
But the idea that businesses should keep a record of who ate what or what was served etc. is farcical and comes across very like a nanny state, or flexing their muscles imo more so than actually being concerned. Neither sound good. The people who were avidly against the non-food pubs staying closed now would be pushing harder, but I would think they also would now have the support of anyone sitting on the fence.
Whoever came up with that, wasn't thinking of how to help.

Any word on how the Dail bar is coping with this? Has anyone outstayed the 105 minutes yet, or not eaten their €9 meal?
Thankfully we have this new rule we can now see what is being spent on meals, how many are being had and how much alcohol is being consumed in what timeframe. :rolleyes:

joeguevara

Suckit wrote: »

The push back against their rules.
They had many people onside imo with the non-food pubs remaining closed to slow down the virus. Even if they didn't agree with it fully.
For example, I didn't agree with some of the pubs opening and some remaining closed just because they served food or didn't, as opposed to having a more valid reason, like three strike policy or anything else that I can't think of atm.
I thought it would have been better to have all pubs closed or all pubs open with the same restrictions (obviously not the €9 meal), but I understood they didn't, to help slow the virus down and stop it from spreading.
But the idea that businesses should keep a record of who ate what or what was served etc. is farcical and comes across very like a nanny state, or flexing their muscles imo more so than actually being concerned. Neither sound good. The people who were avidly against the non-food pubs staying closed now would be pushing harder, but I would think they also would now have the support of anyone sitting on the fence.
Whoever came up with that, wasn't thinking of how to help.

Any word on how the Dail bar is coping with this? Has anyone outstayed the 105 minutes yet, or not eaten their €9 meal?
Thankfully we have this new rule we can now see what is being spent on meals, how many are being had and how much alcohol is being consumed in what timeframe. :rolleyes:

You do know that the Dail is on holidays since July so the impact of your request is slightly tempered.

Suckit

joeguevara wrote: »

You do know that the Dail is on holidays since July so the impact of your request is slightly tempered.

Two days off. Drat.
I can wait.

cadaliac

Suckit wrote: »

The push back against their rules.
They had many people onside imo with the non-food pubs remaining closed to slow down the virus. Even if they didn't agree with it fully.
For example, I didn't agree with some of the pubs opening and some remaining closed just because they served food or didn't, as opposed to having a more valid reason, like three strike policy or anything else that I can't think of atm.
I thought it would have been better to have all pubs closed or all pubs open with the same restrictions (obviously not the €9 meal), but I understood they didn't, to help slow the virus down and stop it from spreading.
But the idea that businesses should keep a record of who ate what or what was served etc. is farcical and comes across very like a nanny state, or flexing their muscles imo more so than actually being concerned. Neither sound good. The people who were avidly against the non-food pubs staying closed now would be pushing harder, but I would think they also would now have the support of anyone sitting on the fence.
Whoever came up with that, wasn't thinking of how to help.

Any word on how the Dail bar is coping with this? Has anyone outstayed the 105 minutes yet, or not eaten their €9 meal?
Thankfully we have this new rule we can now see what is being spent on meals, how many are being had and how much alcohol is being consumed in what timeframe. :rolleyes:

Excellent post, agree with all you said there.

Del Griffith

Scenes in South William Street last night

joeguevara

joeguevara wrote: »

That’s someone’s personal Instagram you know.

That's set to public. If it was private they'd have it set on private.

Del Griffith

joeguevara wrote: »

That’s someone’s personal Instagram you know.

Yea sorry its going around though. Great to see imo, life coming back into the city

drunkmonkey

Del Griffith wrote: »

Scenes in South William Street last night

Partying away in Cork last night as well, can't seem to send link to video..

There's Colin Foley on the tinfoil hat mong list then.

drunkmonkey

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

There's Colin Foley on the tinfoil hat mong list then.

Masks are the new tinfoil hats.

MadYaker

Pubs to be open in 2 weeks according to Martin? Great news but I’ll believe it when I see it. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/government-expects-to-reopen-all-pubs-by-the-middle-of-this-month-1.4347022?mode=amp&fbclid=IwAR3qo1hWJCfCETsvaItNck33ewmIK08Us3waUMEBCm9YeP4P9S9cDDWnAaI

drunkmonkey

MadYaker wrote: »

Pubs to be open in 2 weeks according to Martin? Great news but I’ll believe it when I see it. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/government-expects-to-reopen-all-pubs-by-the-middle-of-this-month-1.4347022?mode=amp&fbclid=IwAR3qo1hWJCfCETsvaItNck33ewmIK08Us3waUMEBCm9YeP4P9S9cDDWnAaI

Probably crazy rules around them, which will force us to move from pub to pub, no more than 2hrs in a beer garden, toilets locked etc.

drunkmonkey

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Masks are the new tinfoil hats.

They're the exact opposite.

MadYaker

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Probably crazy rules around them, which will force us to move from pub to pub, no more than 2hrs in a beer garden, toilets locked etc.

There will definitely be some rules alright but I think it’ll be a bit looser than the current situation. Hopefully no time limits and not restricted to table service. Number of people in at any one time will definitely have to be regulated.

ShamNNspace

MadYaker wrote: »

There will definitely be some rules alright but I think it’ll be a bit looser than the current situation. Hopefully no time limits and not restricted to table service. Number of people in at any one time will definitely have to be regulated.

We dos be lovin the rules and form fillin in this country

IAMAMORON

The word on the stweeeeeeeeet is Monday fortnight. Depending on spikes and how many hospitalisations ( I am not sure if that is a real word ) in Dublin over next week.

drunkmonkey

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Probably crazy rules around them, which will force us to move from pub to pub, no more than 2hrs in a beer garden, toilets locked etc.

Garda-enforced pub crawls, what a time to be alive!

Everyone seems to be forced to do a lot these days.

stephenjmcd

Draft guidelines are the very same as those serving food. Minus the food requirement.

11.30pm closing.

aziz

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Draft guidelines are the very same as those serving food. Minus the food requirement.

11.30pm closing.

Cos we all know covid is more dangerous at night

Gods Gift

If your not home and in your bed by 12. The big bad covid will get you.

aziz

So if everywhere is closed at 11.30,no late bars,nightclubs,so that mean every one on the streets at the same time,all looking for taxis

aziz

aziz wrote: »

Cos we all know covid is more dangerous at night

Not even the invincibility food works after midnight.

Gods Gift

aziz wrote: »

So if everywhere is closed at 11.30,no late bars,nightclubs,so that mean every one on the streets at the same time,all looking for taxis

Exactly.
A socially distanced taxi queue. Lol

aziz

aziz wrote: »

So if everywhere is closed at 11.30,no late bars,nightclubs,so that mean every one on the streets at the same time,all looking for taxis

Yep, that's always been a problem with the way we operate closing hours of pubs and niteclubs. Never mind taxi queues, it maximises the potential for anti-social behaviour and random violent encounters.

Now, introduce Covid into that madness.

IAMAMORON

aziz wrote: »

So if everywhere is closed at 11.30,no late bars,nightclubs,so that mean every one on the streets at the same time,all looking for taxis

What do really want? At some point life will be getting back to normal and curbing the spread of Covid will not be a massive priority anymore. In 2 months you will be bored of examining tweets of drunk taxi ranks sharing kebabs and scrapping with each other at midnight.

They are not banning Halloween anyway.