Will the Rovers ever Return? Your pub megathread, Part 2 - threadbans in OP

hynesie08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117882888#Comment_117882888

Was it the same pub you tried to get a barman sacked for not bending the laws after you spent 200 euro between 8 people?

Man goes out for a few jars, observes a band in full flight and has a cracking night. Somehow, a disgruntled individual finds fault with that. Jesus wept.

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117883105#Comment_117883105

Stay alert, sure Croke Park was danger zone yesterday. Covid was there and everyone who entered was to act as if it was there. Maybe that spilled over to other parts of the country

Some comedian is going to make a killing from the Irish governments response of Covid

Juwwi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117883105#Comment_117883105

How much did your crowd spend tonight Bertie ? go on give us all another laugh ,,also did you try to get any other new staff sacked during a pandemic when people are struggling to find jobs ?

Beasty

Berties_Horse - threadbanned

ShooterSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117855972#Comment_117855972

The industry are far from saints but there are issues like the extra staffing and thankfully an increase in wages because they couldn't get the staff to work for what was paid pre-covid but the elephant in the room is, and has been, Diageo and Heineken's near monopoly control of the pubs. If you try and carry a product they don't supply they threaten to pull support or their own products. My bar recently got an angry call from a rep because a video of a cocktail was put up made with the wrong brand of a certain spirit. Threatened to stop giving any deals. Then the two of them jack their prices because they know the pubs have to carry their products. Seriously if you want to try and help the bars who don't want to gouge you, start by buying products off them that aren't supplied by the big 2. For example of how hard that will be just on tap that means no Guinness, Smithwicks, Carlsberg, Hop House, Budweiser, Rockshore, Heineken, Coors, Murphy's, Orchard Thieves, Island's Edge, Applemans, Beamish, Lagunitas, Fosters, and I'm probably missing a few...

showpony1

So are we confirmed Coppers and the likes are going to be total free for alls from 22nd October?

have any of the big night clubs commented on their "comebacks".

PommieBast

I'll believe it when I see it. Everyone here knows the government heel-dragging playbook..

There is talk of licensing up to 6am but I think that is an outright fib just to quieten people.

stephenjmcd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117902775#Comment_117902775

Except it's not just talk, because it's in the programme for government & the minister for Justice is already bringing forward the proposal on the license overhaul, the process kicked off a good few months ago now. It just has to go through due process, now it moves to the full drafting of bill and then debate etc and through the houses & eventually to president. Wouldn't be a shock to have the licensing laws vastly different this time next year to what they are now.

PommieBast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117902796#Comment_117902796

Will be interesting to see if it actually gets anywhere. After all the farting around over citizenship certificates I no longer differentiate between anything that is allegedly in the works and stuff that is mere talk.

JP Liz V1

Get your shift on

Copper Face Jacks to reopen on Friday 22nd October

ShooterSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117902775#Comment_117902775

There was talk of it precovid to be honest. I'd love to see the country move to more open licensing hours. I'd love 24 hour I could go for pints whenever I finished up. Unfortunately I don't see how bars will be able to take advantage of such extensions as most can't staff the hours they're open at the moment!

PommieBast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117909026#Comment_117909026

Personally I have given up completely on the Irish state sorting stuff out. I moved to London six weeks ago and have lost track of how many proper benders I have been on since.

saabsaab

There was talk of self service pubs a while ago. What happened?

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117912590#Comment_117912590

There's one in Waterford open 2019, decent enough but I'd be more traditionalist and want my pint served to me

You get a card and load money onto it and then go up to the many taps and pour it yourself

celt262

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117727166#Comment_117727166

Soz quoted wrong post

hynesie08

There's an electricity in the air in Dublin city tonight that I haven't felt in a while, people know the end is coming and they're embracing it, the pubs are a little busier, the music's a little louder, and the craic is a solid 84...........

HBC08

" I haven't felt it in a while, people know the end is coming and they're embracing it"

You sound like a looper with a megaphone at the end of Henry Street.

saabsaab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117964790#Comment_117964790

But the end is coming!

Dickie10

you would imagine this weekend would be perfect for going back to normal trading hours , things would be back to normal for 22 oct

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117964943#Comment_117964943

Agree, should of been a phased reopening

Pubs allowed operate at normal pub hours this weekend. No late bars or nightclubs

Weekend of 9th/10th Oct- late bars allowed reopen

Weekend after Nightclubs

Instead it's all going to be on the one day

hynesie08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117965373#Comment_117965373

This is Ireland, late bars and nightclubs are the same thing.......

PTH2009

The 6am closes will take a while to get used to, the first few proper nights out from the 22nd Oct will feel odd after so long (let me guess which user will come on and comment)

hynesie08

The 6am thing is a pipe dream, a throwaway comment from a minister. very few cities open past 4am, Prague is the only place I've been that goes till 6, Never mind the staffing issues. An extra hour for pubs and 2 for late bars would probably be the ideal amount.

mightyreds

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117965392#Comment_117965392

I dunno about that I was out in Mullingar one night and they wouldn't allow me into the nightclub cause I was too drunk but could continue in the attached late bar I was already in 🤣

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117966836#Comment_117966836

I remember coming out of coppers a few times very late around 4 or 5.

But usually gone by half 2 as I'd be out early.

hynesie08

@mightyreds I dunno about that I was out in Mullingar one night and they wouldn't allow me into the nightclub cause I was too drunk but could continue in the attached late bar I was already in 🤣

I meant in terms of licensing, there's no legal distinction between the two.

Was it mojo? They work by their own rules up there, once got moved from a lounge to the bar for later serving, then back to the lounge for a lock in .........

Geuze

I haven't been keeping up to date with the changes to laws.

Can I ask - what will happen to pub closing times on 22-Oct?

Is it currently 11pm Mon-Sun?

And will that revert to the pre-COVID closing times?

Thanks.

stephenjmcd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117982251#Comment_117982251

Currently everyone off premises by 11.30

Revert to normal licensing hours from 22nd

MOH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117966912#Comment_117966912

LOL, more utter nonsense. Plenty of cities with places open until 5/6am. Including Dublin normally, albeit under the radar.

Was in Germany a coupe of weeks ago, similar entry restrictions to here but totally different attitude. Pubs have the choice of agreeing to more stringent entry requirements, being really strict on checking covid certs and ID, but then once inside it's business as usual.

Were heading out one night for what was supposed to be a big night out and stopped into a small local pub on the way. Was such a nice, normal atmosphere - locals sitting at the bar, decent music, able to order at the bar, people wandering around or playing darts down the back - that we decided to have a quiet one and just stay there for a couple more.

Turned out they didn't close until 5am. And that was a Wednesday. But it was fantastic to be out in a proper, normal, atmosphere without all the artificial, arbitrary, self-defeating nonsense restrictions our geniuses have persisted with.

PTH2009

T minus 15 days til normality at least for nightlife

Be nice to get the small things back like pre drinking and then head out around 9.30pm-10pm still having enough time for a good night

The questions of why 11.30pm blanket close was enforced will never be answered because the decision makers don't even know the reason