The Irish Pub is finished.

I sometimes the designated driver

5 euro for a bottle of Heineken 0
Over priced minerals

Had a pint at the start of the night once and the bar man accidentally gave me another on the next round.

I explained I was the driver and he grumpily took the Guinness back. Easily resold, but taken back with attitude. I then hit the over priced water.

The other 4 people wouldn’t be there if it wasn’t for me.

Breathalysed that night on the way home and was under the limit

Pubs have super normal profits. Couldn’t care less if they closed. It’s tine a lot of people found a different hobby that getting sh1t faced on over priced booze

Not a fan of drinking and eating together (nightmare sanario for me for the next 3 weeks). Always have food before I'd start drinkin The smell of food in pubs turns my stomach

Can't see the irish pub disappear, people have been used to it for years and almost every celebration both good and bad is shared inside its walls.

Different times today but young people like trying to be the old irish (for there Instagram followers etc). We see all the trendy bands trying to reimagine the dubliners etc and drinking the guiness like me grandad did etc.

As a recovering alcoholic who has fallen off the wagon once or twice I feel sorry for the lost jobs but find it hard to drum up sympathy for the lost pubs, my own opinion (and my own weakness) before you normal tipplers jump at me!

What decade was the "Heyday" for the pub 80s, 90s?

touts wrote: »

Good riddance. We think they are the only way to have fun and that everyone else on the world loves us for them. In reality they are a cancer in Irish society and everyone else is laughing at us because of them.

In 20 years around a quarter will still exist. Another quarter will have evolved into something like wine bars. The rest will be gone. And we will look back at the time of the pub and wonder what the hell we were thinking. We are moving to a more mature relationship with drink.

Shame we're not moving to a more mature relationship with the crystal ball or speaking for others.


"everyone" is laughing? Are they? Really?
A quarter will have evolved into "wine bars"?
How many wine bars do you know of? They were a concept that died a death.

Do you have any stock market tips? Just so I can completely avoid your inane predictions.

Strumms wrote: »

The chances of poisoning being ‘slim’ isn’t good enough. It has to be nil.

Both the pubs I frequent you can see into the kitchen and you would almost eat your dinner off the floor it’s that spotless.

Either way the FSAI I believe are the auditors and they are not going to rewrite the regs or start turning a blind eye just to suit the ‘industry’... they are in fact VERY proactive in carrying out audits on pubs, takeaways and restaurants and actioning any establishments that are in non compliance with law enforcement as relates to food preparation... “The principal function of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland is to protect consumers and raise compliance through partnership, science and food law enforcement”....

A lot of naivity around that the likes of the FSAI will just turn a blind eye to make life easy for the pubs. The FSAI have issued closure orders for hospital kitchens, do people think they won't issue them for pub "kitchens"consisting of a fridge and mircowave in a back room?

CrabRevolution wrote: »

A lot of naivity around that the likes of the FSAI will just turn a blind eye to make life easy for the pubs. The FSAI have issued closure orders for hospital kitchens, do people think they won't issue them for pub "kitchens"consisting of a fridge and mircowave in a back room?

I'm not disagreeing however a lot of places with no proper kitchen do a pizza and a pint. Some form of a frozen pizza in a grill behind the bar. How do they get away with it?

Also I know two bars in my town delivering pints. It's a bit of a novelty however I don't think it's in strict adherence to a pub licence.

Marshall Large Chihuahua wrote: »

One of the most stupid posts I’ve ever read on boards.

Was just about the say the same thing. And, given the amount of ****e that's talked on here, that is saying something

People leaving school in the late 80s and 90s were more likely to go to college, moving out of rural towns. They would tend to socialise in the closest larger towns. Most local pubs were kept viable by cohort dedicated customers. The customers for the traditional Irish local pub have literally died out. It’s a popular misconception that the “peeeeple of rural Ireland depend on the local pub”.

Hoboo wrote: »

Eh, for a few pints and a chat in a pub, locally, we do. Wheres the misconception?

The misconception is that the local pub in rural Ireland was \ is frequently visited by the majority of people from within its surrounding area.

riddles wrote: »

The misconception is that the local pub in rural Ireland was \ is frequently visited by the majority of people from within its surrounding area.

You're going to have to point me to some sort of research because I can only rely on my own experience of 12 years of rural village living.

We've a population of around 500 in the immediate village area. Monday to Thursday there's always 10-15 in there and not the same faces, sometimes more depending on what's on. Friday Saturday it's packed (60) Sunday packed all day and another 30-40 outside of it's nice. Doesn't even do food, proper old school crossroads pub so just there for pints, craic and music. Not sure what you classify as a majority, but 12% of the village population I would have thought is pretty high. Granted there's always 4 or 5 from outside.

I'm confident I'm not the only one who actually lives in rural Ireland with a similar local pub.

Will it be finished? I can't see how it won't be. Impossible to distance, old pubs weren't built for that.