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Good Friday Drinking

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,748 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Couldn't give a damn really and i'm not religious either.
    But people complaining about the pubs being shut on two days of the year have little to complain about. There will be plenty of drink on sale every other day.
    I think its nice to see the pub workers get a rest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,757 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    TallGlass wrote: »
    Is minimum pricing coming in? That's gonna be disastrous. It will be around 15€ for 6 cans.

    Yes it is but the actual price levels have not been set yet.

    It's the next big drink fight, the neo-prohibitionists vs. the ordinary decent drinkers!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    As usual, there are more people complaining about the supposed complainers, than there are people complaining about the ban.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,160 ✭✭✭Huntergonzo


    Good Friday = only Friday of the year that I really want a drink.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭dbagman


    How is it double standards? We enjoyed good Friday as it was a day out. I never complained about the pubs being closed here as we made other arrangements. I think people should embrace the day as 'a pubs closed day make other arrangements' sort of day whereas from now on it's just another day.

    I think it's pathetic that so many people complained about it rather than just getting on with it and making their own arrangements.


    The double standards lie in you calling those that want to be able to have a pint on a friday of a bank holiday weekend pathetic and all the while you making other arrangements to go to a different pub outside this law. Bully for you being able to make these other arrangements. What about those well south of the border where your other arrangements might involve a 5 or 6 hour + round trip?

    My fave quote of yours has to be where you say you "enjoyed good Friday as it was a day out". That is exactly why people are bemoaning this outdated law!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    Meh sure it's all a bit of fun to try and find or organise a party for it. There's plenty of events knocking about that look like a bit of fun and are a bit gimmicky.

    Just walk around and follow the music to a house party :pac:

    ...Or just ignore it and continue on with your day.

    It's all good


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,264 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    I don't care about the Good Friday ban on pubs being open. Love my booze, but the ban never ever bothered me. If its removed next year, it won't affect me one iota. However I will say this. Once pubs open on Good Friday, they will just get the usual crowd and off license sales will be the usual Friday night take. Life will go on and there will probably be less binge drinking over the Thursday and Friday.

    But once the vintners get their way, I'd like to see cafes serving alcohol and an extension of alcohol purchasing hours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    2 litres of Smirnoff for 40 in Tesco for anyone who has the Good Friday fever


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,441 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    2 litres of Smirnoff for 40 in Tesco for anyone who has the Good Friday fever

    I'd say the off licences are doing a roaring trade about now because no alcohol will ever be sold again.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    I'd say the off licences are doing a roaring trade about now because no alcohol will ever be sold again.

    You just can't take the chance


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    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

    It's the only day I drink :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    What's pathetic is complaining about people wanting to get a ridiculous law changed when you just ignored that law anyway and hopped over the border, while those not living in border counties had to just suck it up.

    Did you read your posting before posting it? I didn't ignore any law, that would imply I bought drink here against the law, I didn't, I went to another country where it was perfectly legal to buy alcohol and bought some,


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,856 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    It's a national embarrassment to be honest. I've seen tourists and stag/hen parties wandering around Dublin on this day every year looking confused and annoyed. At least they will be staying in hotels that can serve them if needs be I guess, but it is still very much the principle. I don't care that the pubs are closed, I care that the pubs are closed for an archaic, religious reason. If they announced randomly that no drink could be served on the 10th of May I wouldn't really care (although I would be puzzled).

    It's mostly just a good Friday because I'm off work though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,037 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    What will we do next year when the GF ban on alcohol sales is GONE!

    I wanted it gone, but now I think it should be kept LOL.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭dbagman


    Did you read your posting before posting it? I didn't ignore any law, that would imply I bought drink here against the law, I didn't, I went to another country where it was perfectly legal to buy alcohol and bought some,

    clearly you didnt read your own before posting it and quickly deciding to remove and rewrite it. I just happened to be trying to quote it as you did. Lucky for you as you made a bit of a show of yourself in your original response.

    Long story short the hypocrisy in what your saying is rife. People are pathetic for not being happy at not being able to drink on Good friday in your opinion. Yet in the same breath you say how you used to go out of your way to be able to have a drink on good friday. Whats pathetic is that you couldnt sit in for one night and felt the need to go to the north to get pissed yet condemn others for wishing they could do the same.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,264 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    5starpool wrote: »
    It's a national embarrassment to be honest. I've seen tourists and stag/hen parties wandering around Dublin on this day every year looking confused and annoyed. At least they will be staying in hotels that can serve them if needs be I guess, but it is still very much the principle. I don't care that the pubs are closed, I care that the pubs are closed for an archaic, religious reason. If they announced randomly that no drink could be served on the 10th of May I wouldn't really care (although I would be puzzled).

    It's mostly just a good Friday because I'm off work though.


    The stag and hens should have done their research and they can get drink in their hotels anyway. As for tourists, if they are wondering around Dublin, looking confused and annoyed about not being able to go into a pub, I'd worry about them and the quality of tourist in Dublin.

    Next year it won't matter anyway and life for us locals will carry on as normal. The same alco's that used to buy a train ticket to drink in station bars will be somewhere else of their choice. The pitiful brigade that go nuts in Off licenses or pubs will revert to what they usually do on a Thursday or Friday night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    I think its nice to see the pub workers get a rest.

    They work the other 363, do they? Better phone the WRC quick! :rolleyes:

    Another stupid non-justification for a religious law

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Did you read your posting before posting it? I didn't ignore any law, that would imply I bought drink here against the law, I didn't, I went to another country where it was perfectly legal to buy alcohol and bought some,

    I did, but it sure looks like you didn't read mine. Try again.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    What will we do next year when the GF ban on alcohol sales is GONE!

    Carry on like the Friday of any other bank holiday weekend. *shrug*

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Minimum pricing coming in also in this new bill.

    That's the worrying and annoying part.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    Yeah stags vomiting everywhere on good Friday will seriously increase Ireland's non religious credentials. Who needs a whole pile of changes in education, health, social issues when you can just start selling alcohol on Good Friday.

    It's sad how priorities always revolve around alcohol. And chest tumping.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Minimum pricing coming in also in this new bill.

    That's the worrying and annoying part.

    Yep that and the labelling crap, although it's the very silly 'booze burkas' which gained the headlines

    Special labelling requirements and calorie counts will impose costs on Irish craft breweries. Worse, from the drinkers' point of view, is it'll force Irish importers of niche alcohol products to specially label each and every bottle/can that comes into the country, and possibly have each product nutritionally analyzed when no other EU country requires this. I expect this to seriously reduce the choice and competition in the alcohol off-sales market here.

    The macro breweries won't care, it's no skin off their nose and actually helps them by hurting their less well resourced competition.

    A violation of the EU single market in my eyes. Alcohol labelling should be regulated on an EU wide basis, so if your bottle or can is legal to sell in any country it's legal in all. No special local requirements which go against the principles of a single market. If they think it's such a good idea on 'health grounds' let them make a case for it at EU level. Otherwise it's just the usual, an excuse to screw over consumers in this country while facilitating big business.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    meeeeh wrote: »
    Yeah stags vomiting everywhere on good Friday will seriously increase Ireland's non religious credentials. Who needs a whole pile of changes in education, health, social issues when you can just start selling alcohol on Good Friday.

    It's sad how priorities always revolve around alcohol. And chest tumping.

    The old fallacy of "we can't act on injustice X unless injustice Y, totally unrelated, is fixed first"

    Bull****

    Attack religious prejudice on any and every front.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    People get hung up on the drink fest but it's a Friday off work for a lot of people. It's at the start of Easter weekend so if you have it off work, it's the first day of a four-day weekend and just before the first Spring bank holiday. Even if you don't have it off, it's precisely the kind of Friday people take off anyway.

    Despite the usual smug homilies, it's less a national alcohol compulsion than a confluence of factors that have somehow come to earmark Good Friday as a day to have a party.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,748 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    meeeeh wrote: »
    Yeah stags vomiting everywhere on good Friday will seriously increase Ireland's non religious credentials. Who needs a whole pile of changes in education, health, social issues when you can just start selling alcohol on Good Friday.

    It's sad how priorities always revolve around alcohol. And chest tumping.
    There should be less vomit and broken glass on the footpaths on Sat morning too.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭dbagman


    People get hung up on the drink fest but it's a Friday off work for a lot of people. It's at the start of Easter weekend so if you have it off work, it's the first day of a four-day weekend and just before the first Spring bank holiday. Even if you don't have it off, it's precisely the kind of Friday people take off anyway.

    Despite the usual smug homilies, it's less a national alcohol compulsion than a confluence of factors that have somehow come to earmark Good Friday as a day to have a party.

    thats the worst of it, if anything it encourages binge drinking more in that if you fall up to a bar paraletic theres someone to turn you away, iv yet to see a fridge with this feature


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭masculinist


    One year after being kicked out unexpectedly from a bar and discovering it was Good Friday - a friend and I went home , grabbed our passports, bought flights on my credit card at the checkin desk and spent the next 5 days unexpectedly drunk in Prague with snow up to our ankles , no coats, no luggage, no toothbrush and no phone charger. The hangover upon waking in a strange place after 5 pm local time and realising it wasnt Dublin was unreal. It can be done !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭Donal55


    People get hung up on the drink fest but it's a Friday off work for a lot of people. It's at the start of Easter weekend so if you have it off work, it's the first day of a four-day weekend and just before the first Spring bank holiday. Even if you don't have it off, it's precisely the kind of Friday people take off anyway.

    Despite the usual smug homilies, it's less a national alcohol compulsion than a confluence of factors that have somehow come to earmark Good Friday as a day to have a party.

    Same here, prefer to get all the jobs done, shopping, lawns etc, and then just walk around naked for the next 3 days doing a 'John & Yoko' with the Missus!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32 Systemsdarken


    Religious seriously triggered. Good.


  • Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover54


    Attack religious prejudice on any and every front.

    Whatever.

    I'm not religious and I enjoy a drink but 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.

    Of course that level of self-deprivation was too much for the Irish.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    The old fallacy of "we can't act on injustice X unless injustice Y, totally unrelated, is fixed first"

    Bull****

    Attack religious prejudice on any and every front.

    I didn't say that you can't act. I don't care if ban is lifted, I find the uproar around it pathetic. A nation with healthy attitude to alcohol would consider it inconsequential. And as vehicle for more secular society it's low hanging fruit that won't improve life of anyone except to list your secular credentials on internet forum. Maybe they should start printing badges: I was there when good Friday alcohol ban was lifted.

    BTW as far as I know geniuses that drafted the law forgot to include restaurants in the draft.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover54


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Ireland definitely has an alcohol problem with one of the highest rates of binge drinking in the world.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭babi-hrse


    If you have one drink a night your an alcoholic
    If you have none but many at the weekend your a binge drinker
    There's just no winning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    Patww79 wrote: »
    The definition of binge drinking is a load of pish that was only dreamt up to bump up stats like that and create a problem for a reason for taxation. 'Ireland' has no problem, some people in Ireland do.

    Absolutely right. The health professionals have it for Ireland. They don't understand the unique Irish phsyque that processes the alcohol completely different than any other nation in the world.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Subscribers Posts: 32,856 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    I think your sarcasm detector is in need of repair.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,439 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    I'm not religious and I enjoy a drink but 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.

    I'm not religious. I'm an alcoholic. I try to limit my drinking and I don't cause problems for others.

    I've walked around Dublin, Limerick, Cork and Galway late at night while inebriated and around inebriated people.

    I've never had an uneasy feeling that I'm going to be subject to any of those things.

    That said, if you want to spend your Christmas Day walking around 'feeling safe' then go ahead.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    meeeeh wrote: »
    I didn't say that you can't act. I don't care if ban is lifted, I find the uproar around it pathetic. A nation with healthy attitude to alcohol would consider it inconsequential. And as vehicle for more secular society it's low hanging fruit that won't improve life of anyone except to list your secular credentials on internet forum. Maybe they should start printing badges: I was there when good Friday alcohol ban was lifted.

    BTW as far as I know geniuses that drafted the law forgot to include restaurants in the draft.

    Idiotic guff. A nation with a 'healthy attitude' would allow adults to act as adults on any day of the year, "religious" or not.

    You don't get it. It's the imposition of religious guff upon non-believers that all sensible people (non-believers) object to.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    meeeeh wrote: »
    Absolutely right. The health professionals have it for Ireland. They don't understand the unique Irish phsyque that processes the alcohol completely different than any other nation in the world.

    Too right

    I watched Italian men been carried out of the beer tent in Munich by half twelve in the day after a few steins while we were just finishing our pretzel breakfasts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Whatever.

    I'm not religious and I enjoy a drink but 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.

    Of course that level of self-deprivation was too much for the Irish.

    Why would you go into the city centre though when all the shops and pubs are closed, what's left?
    and you can be sure the street drinkers and junkies still had supplies in

    It's not self-deprivation when it's imposed. I don't drink most days of the year but I choose which days those are. If you need other people to make choices for you you're not really a functioning adult, are you?

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    Why would you go into the city centre though when all the shops and pubs are closed, what's left?
    Oh what to do when you can't shop or drink? It says it all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,407 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    I'd readily support a ban on alcohol sales every Friday in exchange for a free day off work. I'd probably support a ban on the purchase of food for a day off


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    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.

    That's pathetic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral



    I'm not religious and I enjoy a drink but 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..

    Hope you bring your bodysuit of bubble wrap with you the other 363 days you visit the city centre. Flippin' hell! Never once have I had an iota of trouble in Dublin City centre or any other Irish City for that matter. Then again, I don't look for it.

    For the Good Friday ban on sales, it doesn't really bother me as it's a one-off essentially but I very much disagree with the principle of it. So yes, I've no bother getting on with it but to be told "no you can't" because of some archaic law is rubbish and I'll be glad to see it gone on a matter of principle.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    I'm torn. When I used to work in bar Good Friday was great. It was the only night of the year we'd all be off together, and we'd get a rake of cans in and go to one of our houses and have the craic. Some of my best memories are from those nights. So it's sad that those workers will now have to work Good Friday, and only have one collective night off a year- Xmas day.

    But on the other hand- it's bs. I'm not religious at all, and this archaic law has no place in Ireland today. It's different from Christmas Day, which is a national/international holiday and a family day. 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.

    I'm not arsed either way, if I'm totally honest. But it is good to see Ireland progressing and unshackling some of the restrictive and opressive and religious chains that have no bearing in society today.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    Why would you go into the city centre though when all the shops and pubs are closed, what's left? and you can be sure the street drinkers and junkies still had supplies in


    Shops are open Good Friday.


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