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Good Friday Drinking

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 493 ✭✭Tsipras


    I'm in England wohoo :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Minimum pricing coming in also in this new bill.

    That's the worrying and annoying part.

    The much publicised Good Friday thing was a distraction technique so to sneak min. pricing in?


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


    Wasn't minimum pricing already ruled illegal by the EU when Scotland tried to do it?


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


    People keep going about bar staff having the day off on GF and Christmas Day.

    Do they all have to work the other 363 days of the year?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    Staying in the Mews cottages in Faithlegg, Waterford over Easter, brother in law family too.

    Got a call last week saying as we're not residents we can't have a drink today. Annoyed as nobody told us when booking & as far as I'm concerned we're residents of Faithlegg.

    Not that we want to go on the lash but nice to have a drink in the evening.


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


    People keep going about bar staff having the day off on GF and Christmas Day.

    Do they all have to work the other 363 days of the year?

    GF is work day for me and I don't overly care weather someone works or not. But I can imagine why bar staff wouldn't want to work on Christmas day. I imagine you would be dealing mostly with hassle customers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    In the Philippines you have lads crucifying and whipping themselves.
    And Paddy, the poor ould crathur, does be moping around bored and dying of drought the entire day and night.

    Wherefore all this misery? To what end?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,591 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    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.

    Where does this notion come from that pub workers don't get time off.

    Ridiculous. Do people not know that bar workers get holidays, time off etc and subject to the same employment conditions as the rest of us.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭howiya


    topper75 wrote: »
    In the Philippines you have lads crucifying and whipping themselves.
    And Paddy, the poor ould crathur, does be moping around bored and dying of drought the entire day and night.

    Wherefore all this misery? To what end?

    In the Philippines it's against the law to sell alcohol on election days in case they vote for the local equivalent of the Healy-Raes. Maybe we should try it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    It's not about drink for me, it's about delivering a solid "go f*ck yourself" to the Catholic Church. And I'm very far from an atheist before anyone makes any assumptions.

    No religion should have any bearing whatsoever on the law of the land. Ever.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭RockSalto


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Where does this notion come from that pub workers don't get time off.

    Ridiculous. Do people not know that bar workers get holidays, time off etc and subject to the same employment conditions as the rest of us.

    Nobody said they don't get time off, but a weekend? When bars are most busy? I don't know any barman that have Friday off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭Sin City


    SO who's up for a pint :D:D:D


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


    RockSalto wrote: »
    Nobody said they don't get time off, but a weekend? When bars are most busy? I don't know any barman that have Friday off.

    And a lot of pubs are family ran business' which employ family members. Having only one collective day off to spend together all year sounds a bit miserable. I get that's the name of the game, but bartenders have lives too and families they'd like to spend time with.


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


    It's not about drink for me, it's about delivering a solid "go f*ck yourself" to the Catholic Church. And I'm very far from an atheist before anyone makes any assumptions.

    No religion should have any bearing whatsoever on the law of the land. Ever.
    Better cancel Christmas or St. Patrick then.


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    5starpool wrote: »
    Wasn't minimum pricing already ruled illegal by the EU when Scotland tried to do it?

    The EU sent it back to the Scottish courts to decide on it I believe. Michael Noonan has already said he wouldn't bring in a sugar tax here until the UK did similar, so unless NI brings in MUP at the same time (and they have no current plans to do so I think) it would be bonkers to proceed. You would have to widen the M1 to Newry to 10 lanes if they did......


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,852 ✭✭✭Steve F


    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

    Forbidden fruit,yeah?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭daisybelle2008


    anna080 wrote: »
    And a lot of pubs are a family ran business' which employ family members. Having only one collective day off to spend together all year sounds a bit miserable. I get that's the name of the game, but bartenders have lives too and families they'd like to spend time with.

    It doesn't require the Government legislation to ensure/force Family run businesses have quality time together. If they are all working together every day of the year, I'd say they are sick of the sight of each other.

    Anyway they can close any day they want (or hire agency staff). Would suit them better, in fact, close some quiet Monday in Jan and open GF.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    It's not about drink for me, it's about delivering a solid "go f*ck yourself" to the Catholic Church. And I'm very far from an atheist before anyone makes any assumptions.
    No religion should have any bearing whatsoever on the law of the land. Ever.
    What about freedom to practice any religion?


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


    The much publicised Good Friday thing was a distraction technique so to sneak min. pricing in?

    Just more of the publican/neo-prohibitionist agenda.

    Quote from Senator Billy Lawless former Galway publican now USA based publican speaking in Seanad Eireann on Wednesday this week.

    "We need to remove cheap low cost alcohol from supermarkets and off-licences. Currently an 18 year old with €10 can buy 10 cans of beer on Holy Thursday but cannot walk into a pub and meet friends and buy two or three drinks for the same money on Good Friday."


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


    elperello wrote: »
    Just more of the publican/neo-prohibitionist agenda.

    Quote from Senator Billy Lawless former Galway publican now USA based publican speaking in Seanad Eireann on Wednesday this week.

    "We need to remove cheap low cost alcohol from supermarkets and off-licences. Currently an 18 year old with €10 can buy 10 cans of beer on Holy Thursday but cannot walk into a pub and meet friends and buy two or three drinks for the same money on Good Friday."

    If MUP is included in the "Good Friday" bill, I reckon it will have to have a commencement order that will only be triggered once NI introduce MUP aswell.

    They haven't even got an Assembly up there, and haven't for ages, so whether MUP would be high on their agenda when it eventually reconvenes is debateable!


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


    anna080 wrote: »
    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.

    Nope selling alcohol on Christmas Day is illegal.
    pilly wrote: »
    Shops are open Good Friday.

    At night?
    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.

    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: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    diomed wrote: »
    What about freedom to practice any religion?

    Yeah you're still free to not drink if you don't want to. That's the whole point, the choice is taken away in principle with this law. It shouldn't be. If it's abolished and you wanna keep practicing your religion as far as Good Friday goes you can! You don't wanna drink, don't. Nobody is forcing you to.


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


    Why is the drink covered by big black bin bags in the shops? Are they afraid we'll get drunk by looking at it?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 106 ✭✭Luggnuts


    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

    Bitterly disappointed that someone might want to do something that has no effect on you whatsoever?


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


    anna080 wrote: »
    Why is the drink covered by big black bin bags in the shops? Are they afraid we'll get drunk by looking at it?

    Super valu done it by using toilet rolls and the prize was if you bought them all you could look but not buy any booze.


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


    Super valu done it by using toilet rolls and the prize was if you bought them all you could look but not buy any booze.

    Or you could run and take a mad dive through all the jacks roll and grab all the booze you can. Cosy.
    Trying to get the cute Andrex puppies to distract me from the booze how dare


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


    anna080 wrote: »
    Or you could run and take a mad dive through all the jacks roll and grab all the booze you can. Cosy.
    Trying to get the cute Andrex puppies to distract me from the booze how dare

    Not smash and grab its soft and grab
    ....


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    My local supermarket made an effort with some flowering plants on combies (think that's the spelling?). Still wanted to break through them shouting 'freedom' though!


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


    Had my whiskey poured and was watching the clock tick down to midnight.

    #IsurvivedGoodFriday


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭Patty O Furniture


    How pathetic is it that someone can't decide, as a grown man, to have a drink tomorrow.
    Very pathetic.

    If for religious, or personal reasons you don't want to drink on a certain day of the week, that is fine by me.

    However, I as a responsible adult should be allowed to drink, if I so wish.

    Whether it's religious or law,

    It's bizarre that you can get a drink in the HQ that is the Vatican ;)

    But not here, although was the subsidized Dail Bar open for a sly one ;)
    even though some TD's didn't pay tab & had to be chased for bill when made public:(
    The pubs are not closed for religious religions now, there closed because of state law, so when the state changes the law, they can open.

    There was once the pubs closed btwn 2-4 on Sundays, a bugger when watching football, who set the rules then :confused:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,377 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    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.
    Your colleague is very sad.

    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,377 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    How do restaurants fare out on GF?
    Like the posh ones that would have a lot of wine revenue?
    I heard on TV today about UK stag and hens just wandering around Temple Bar on previous GFs.. Surely that must be the biggest kick in teeth ever..Mwahahahaha..

    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,377 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    How do restaurants fare out on GF?
    Like the posh ones that would have a lot of wine revenue?
    I heard on TV today about UK stag and hens just wandering around Temple Bar on previous GFs.. Surely that must be the biggest kick in teeth ever..Mwahahahaha..

    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,377 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Sorry for double post

    To thine own self be true



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Because self righteousness is strongest of all among people who emigrate. They love to look back here, but only if it's down through their nose.

    I've picked up a trend from your posts across a couple of threads. You hate people who have emigrated. What happened Pat? Bitter that the opportunity passed you by? Maybe you still have time to see a bit of the world.

    Grow up a bit. Your talking through your hoop with such generalisations.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9 jdmkol


    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.
    How do him and his mates get out of the airport afterwards ? Didn't think it was that easy to just exit an airport after checking in and going through security.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭__Alex__


    Never understood the intimation that you're an alcoholic if you complain about this law. Have any of yizzer ever met an alcoholic? They are the least likely people to be caught out by Good Friday. Alcoholic being foremost in their mind, they'll make damn sure to be stocked up.

    To consider critics of the law to have alcoholic leanings is to misunderstand entirely.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭testicles


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Reputable Rog


    testicles wrote: »
    There are no pubs in the Vatican.

    Not true, there is a bar and a number of restaurants/cafeteria, all of which sell alcohol, including on Good Friday .


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Noddyholder


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Have to agree with Pat he hates people especially Northern Ones :P & to be fair to him he is constant in his hating :)


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,592 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    jdmkol wrote: »
    How do him and his mates get out of the airport afterwards ? Didn't think it was that easy to just exit an airport after checking in and going through security.

    It's no problem. He missed his flight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,251 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    How do restaurants fare out on GF?
    Like the posh ones that would have a lot of wine revenue?
    I heard on TV today about UK stag and hens just wandering around Temple Bar on previous GFs.. Surely that must be the biggest kick in teeth ever..Mwahahahaha..

    The main loss for would be the footfall of those who choose not to go out on the da, not the loss of alcohol sales. Many places opened but are far quieter than other weekends. Generally Easter weekend is slower for licenced premises over the whole weekend though some bars outside of the city centre tend to do well on Sunday and Monday.

    As for the stags and hens, if they can't plan ahead them screw them and their pink t shirts and fake dildos :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,505 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    jdmkol wrote: »
    How do him and his mates get out of the airport afterwards ? Didn't think it was that easy to just exit an airport after checking in and going through security.

    And what would happen if you genuinely missed your flight?

    Locked in departures forever?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,377 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    How do restaurants fare out on GF?
    Like the posh ones that would have a lot of wine revenue?
    I heard on TV today about UK stag and hens just wandering around Temple Bar on previous GFs.. Surely that must be the biggest kick in teeth ever..Mwahahahaha..

    The main loss for would be the footfall of those who choose not to go out on the da, not the loss of alcohol sales. Many places opened but are far quieter than other weekends. Generally Easter weekend is slower for licenced premises over the whole weekend though some bars outside of the city centre tend to do well on Sunday and Monday.

    As for the stags and hens, if they can't plan ahead them screw them and their pink t shirts and fake dildos :D
    I always thought those dildos were run real :0

    To thine own self be true



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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Had no idea this was in the works. About time, tbh. The law is outdated and is a religious imposition on everyone affected by it. The nonsense that goes on about stocking up drink on the Thursday is also ridiculous mind, so I never had a huge amount of sympathy. But overall, it's time the rule was retired.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,377 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    I'm surprised some Paddy hasn't taken this complaint to the European Court of Human Rights before.

    To thine own self be true



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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    I'm surprised some Paddy hasn't taken this complaint to the European Court of Human Rights before.
    In theory, he might have gotten somewhere with it, I guess? Our Constitution talks about being a secular state, but Good Friday laws are a religious imposition enforced by the government (well, the State's police force). While on the scale of religious control on a society, it's pretty near the bottom, I suppose it could have opened a fair can of worms.


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