Does Good Friday being tonight at 12?

chump

Meaning ALL pubs & ALL clubs closed!

And what about tomorrow night, places open from 12 onwards?

Shabadu

Yes, everywhere will close at midnight.

Afaik, nowhere opens at 12 tomorrow night, will instead open at regular time on Saturday morning.

Guy:Incognito

Yeah kicking out is 12 sharp tonight. Theres always a few clubs that open at 12 tomoro night.

chump

Twas hoping it had changed (somehow)... not to worry, shame though

_blank_

I'm nearly sure I've been in places in town at midnight after Good Friday.

Nearly sure.

anthonymcg

chump wrote:

Twas hoping it had changed (somehow)... not to worry, shame though

It's only two nights people. Get take out if its that important. :rolleyes:

jezza

jaysus whats this country coming to?

Guy:Incognito

anthonymcg wrote:

It's only two nights people. Get take out if its that important. :rolleyes:

It's the principle of the thing. I've gone 3 or 4 weeks at times without going out, but it bothers me to be told that I cant go out and have a drink if I choose to. I'm a Catholic by default, I dont practice and dont feel I should be bound over by the catholic church.

Ms Beanbag

Thats an illogical statement. Does it bother you that Christmas day is on the 25th of December... :rolleyes: Lets change it so it suits you :rolleyes:

chump

Ms Beanbag I nomiante you for an award for overzealous misuse of the :rolleyes: face...

Take your debate elsewhere...

jezza

Ms Beanbag wrote:

Thats an illogical statement. Does it bother you that Christmas day is on the 25th of December... :rolleyes: Lets change it so it suits you :rolleyes:

no i think he made perfect sense!
what happened to the whole freedom on mouth (drinking/speaking his mind) thing??
and anyhow jesus was drinking on holy thursday and that last supper party prob went past 12 o clock on good friday so techinally he prob drank that day too.

Piste

Stekelly wrote:

I'm a Catholic by default, I dont practice and dont feel I should be bound over by the catholic church.

No you're not. No faith, no Catholicism. Baptism does not a Catholic Make.

jonny68

jezza wrote:

jaysus whats this country coming to?

i know what you mean..NANNY STATE

funky penguin

Stekelly wrote:

It's the principle of the thing. I've gone 3 or 4 weeks at times without going out, but it bothers me to be told that I cant go out and have a drink if I choose to. I'm a Catholic by default, I dont practice and dont feel I should be bound over by the catholic church.

As a barman, one of the two days I am guarenteed off work is welcomed. I think we desevre them.

Its a pity it has something to do with religion.

billy the squid

jezza wrote:

jaysus whats this country coming to?

actually it not a case of what the country is comming to but more of where its comming from,

lest we not forget "the holy hour"

incedentily i ve nine green bottles here, and 3 minutes to drink them, ....me i'll risk the trip to hell.

Mossy Monk

backwards it is. backwards i tells thee

Tusky

It really makes me angry that in this day and age the whole ****ing country has to come to a halt because of certain peoples beliefs, they are not my beliefs, they should not effect me. Sure, I can understand businesses who are predominantly catholic closing but the whole country ???

Will Lidl and Aldi be selling booze tomorrow ?

Crash

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billy the squid wrote:

actually it not a case of what the country is comming to but more of where its comming from,

lest we not forget "the holy hour"

incedentily i ve nine green bottles here, and 3 minutes to drink them, ....me i'll risk the trip to hell.

ahaha the holy hour was great fun. i remember having to go and ring my the pub to let my parents know that i was dropping around when they were locked in during the holy hour....great fun

robbie1876

Forcing the pubs to open on Good Friday would require confronting a force even more powerful than religion itself - the vitners trade union. They won't give up their precious one day holiday too easy.

Crash

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

No you're not. No faith, no Catholicism. Baptism does not a Catholic Make.

actually, in the eyes of el Vatican - baptism does a catholic make. i've looked into this - once baptised into the catholic faith you can never be any other religion unless you become excommunicated - until then you are considered in the eyes of the church as a Lapsed Catholic. ****ed up huh? been thinking of going to get myself excommunicated for a while now.

kasintahan

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

No you're not. No faith, no Catholicism. Baptism does not a Catholic Make.

Well, I'm afraid the Church would disagree with you there.

Have a read of this:

Sacramental character means a special supernatural and ineffaceable mark, or seal, or distinction, impressed upon the soul by each of the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy orders; and it is by reason of this ineffaceable mark that none of these three sacraments may be administered more than once to the same person. This is express Catholic doctrine declared both in the Council of Florence (Sess. ult., Decret. Eugenii IV, §5) and in the Council of Trent (Sess. VII, can. ix, and Sess. XXIII, cap. iv and can. iv). "If any one shall say that in three sacraments, viz. Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy orders, there is not a character impressed upon the soul, that is a certain spiritual and ineffaceable mark [signum] whence these sacraments cannot be iterated, let him be anathema" (Concil. Trid. Sess. ult., can. vii).

rubadub

robbie1876 wrote:

Forcing the pubs to open on Good Friday would require confronting a force even more powerful than religion itself - the vitners trade union. They won't give up their precious one day holiday too easy.

Are you sure? The barman posted saying he wanted it too. I would not like to have any holidays forced upon me. Imagine all pubs closed for 4 weeks at the start of lent and all barstaff were forced to take there 20days then or go unpaid.
I do not see the attraction of forced holidays, if you want it off just request it well in advance.

jor el

rubadub wrote:

Are you sure? The barman posted saying he wanted it too.

I'm pretty sure there's more than one barman in Ireland sorry, couldn't resist.

Anyway, is today taken from a their holiday entitlements or is it a payed day off just like any other public holiday? I don't know as I've never worked in a bar, but I do get to work on Good Friday

Besides, there are 15 (I think) public holidays a year that everyone is entitled to, but the pubs only close on one of these, Christmas Day. Bar staff may have to work all other public holidays in which case they would be due a day in lue (or payment) in respect of this. Surely one of those extra 14 days could cover Good Friday?

Crucifix

Ah, I was wondering why last orders was so early last night.

Bard

Tusky wrote:

Will Lidl and Aldi be selling booze tomorrow ?

If they do, they'll be breaking the law, so it's doubtful.

Mimikyu

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rubadub

jor el wrote:

Anyway, is today taken from a their holiday entitlements or is it a payed day off just like any other public holiday?

I presume it is taken from their holiday entitlements as it is not a public holiday but a forced closure like most business also enforce at christmas.

jor el wrote:

Surely one of those extra 14 days could cover Good Friday?

But then they wouldnt be paid extra when working one of those public holidays, the bar owner would agree with you but staff wouldnt!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

crash_000 wrote:

actually, in the eyes of el Vatican - baptism does a catholic make. i've looked into this - once baptised into the catholic faith you can never be any other religion unless you become excommunicated - until then you are considered in the eyes of the church as a Lapsed Catholic. ****ed up huh? been thinking of going to get myself excommunicated for a while now.

well, the catholic church says a whole lot of stupid ****, I don't see why we should have to listen to them on this. I am not catholic

funky penguin

rubadub wrote:

Are you sure? The barman posted saying he wanted it too. I would not like to have any holidays forced upon me. Imagine all pubs closed for 4 weeks at the start of lent and all barstaff were forced to take there 20days then or go unpaid.
I do not see the attraction of forced holidays, if you want it off just request it well in advance.

No I didn't! I said the day off was welcome..

rubadub

funky penguin wrote:

No I didn't! I said the day off was welcome..

Right you are. You said

As a barman, one of the two days I am guarenteed off work is welcomed. I think we desevre them.

Its a pity it has something to do with religion.

Do you like having 2 days quaranteed off?, would you like more? What about 20? I don't like any holidays being forced upon me, most companies do it at christmas, religion again. Would you not rather have the choice to take off the days YOU want and not what suit your employer? Do they refuse you holidays if you ask 6 months in advance?

Tusky

How do catholic beliefs effect the laws of the country...to me that is so oldfashioned its insane.

funky penguin

rubadub wrote:

Do you like having 2 days quaranteed off?, would you like more? What about 20? I don't like any holidays being forced upon me, most companies do it at christmas, religion again. Would you not rather have the choice to take off the days YOU want and not what suit your employer? Do they refuse you holidays if you ask 6 months in advance?

No. What kind of employer would do that?

Yes, I do like my 2 guarenteed days off, and I still get my 4 weeks holidays im entitled to. At my lesiure of course, with appropriate notice to my employer.

Now tonight me and all my co-workers are having a few drinks in because, fact is, its the only night we will get in the year to drink together. Personnally, considering all the Sh1t we put up with from drunken eejits etc, I think we deserve it. But it doesn't bother me that its forced on us.

rubadub

funky penguin wrote:

No. What kind of employer would do that?

Nursing, doctors, firemen and I would have thought many in the service industry like yourself would be refused certain days off, like christmas eve, new years eve etc, even if you asked 2 years in advance.

funky penguin wrote:

Yes, I do like my 2 guarenteed days off, and I still get my 4 weeks holidays im entitled to.
But it doesn't bother me that its forced on us.

So is a completely free holiday in your pub? does that go for all pubs? as then you say

But it doesn't bother me that its forced on us

as though it is taken from your annual leave.

funky penguin

rubadub wrote:

Nursing, doctors, firemen and I would have thought many in the service industry like yourself would be refused certain days off, like christmas eve, new years eve etc, even if you asked 2 years in advance.

Of course a request for new years, christmas eve, etc off work would be denied. Thats just common sense. (unless it was an emergancy). I would be putting my co-workers in a stressful position.

rubadub wrote:

So is a completely free holiday in your pub? does that go for all pubs?

Cant speak for other pubs, but Christmas Day and Good Friday do not cout towards my annual leave. I dont get paid for them, but I'm not one to argue over two days pay, especially when I'm not working on them.

RobertFoster

I think Paddys Day should be cancelled too. It's another Catholic holiday, except the non-Catholic alcoholics don't seem to complain about it as much :rolleyes:

Sangre

Good Friday is the only bank holiday of the year, we have about 7 other public holidays.
Kind of stupid I can't go into a shop and buy some booze, screw you church, i hope you die.