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The Irish Pub is finished.

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  • #242
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,773 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sheep breeder wrote: »
    As stated to travel 25 to 30 mile away for matches that would have been played local and would have filled in Sunday afternoons or evening for people and then into the pub for a bit of craic. All gone now as it is all about the money for the county board.

    I have to say I don’t see this in my parish. Games are played home or away in the league and championship in a nearby town with a stadium. Regardless we always go into one of the locals on the way back for a few pints and always a big crowd do similar.


  • #243
    Pintman Paddy Losty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭Pintman Paddy Losty


    My local only really closed for a couple of weeks at the start. You can just text and they let you in the back. Sessions aren't the same though. No sports on the TV, they never put any music on. The craic just isn't there.

    Only a few occasions was it busy and a bit of craic. It'll nearly be worse now. At least before you knocked to get in and they let us smoke inside and stay late. Now that they're opening officially they'll probably be more by the book. I'll still go anyway.


  • #244
    ampleforth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭ampleforth


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    I'd smoke illegal smuggled cigarettes.

    That is perhaps the best way to deal with it :D


  • #245
    ingo1984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 421 ✭✭ingo1984


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    A lot of the reason for pubs not re opening is the licensing laws. If you want to turn your gaff into a pub first you have to buy a secondhand pub license for 50 to 80k, get planning permission.

    There have been no brand new pub licenses created for decades except for the convention centre. Also the dood you buy your secondhand pub license from can never turn his building into a pub again. A certain number of licenses are 'lost' every year so there is constant downward pressure on the number of pubs by our overlords despite their cheap talk of re opening the country.

    If you see a pub for sale and think it might be a goer because things picked up in that area, if the owner sold the license so he could sit on his hole in Lanzarote for a few years you are stuffed, it won't become a pub again even if you buy a license

    No need for a pub license. Just get restaurant license. Permits you to sell alcohol whilst you are serving food. Serve food up until 11.30pm last orders, everyone out the door by 12.30am. Get restaurant license fairly easy. Be surprised how many pubs don't have a pub license but operate off a restaurant license.


  • #246
    BPKS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,972 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »
    My local only really closed for a couple of weeks at the start. You can just text and they let you in the back. Sessions aren't the same though. No sports on the TV, they never put any music on. The craic just isn't there.

    Only a few occasions was it busy and a bit of craic. It'll nearly be worse now. At least before you knocked to get in and they let us smoke inside and stay late. Now that they're opening officially they'll probably be more by the book. I'll still go anyway.

    Curious to know where they got the kegs from? Is it easy to deliver kegs without being noticed? Asking for a friend;)


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  • #247
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,983 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    Sheep breeder wrote: »
    As stated to travel 25 to 30 mile away for matches that would have been played local and would have filled in Sunday afternoons or evening for people and then into the pub for a bit of craic. All gone now as it is all about the money for the county board.

    Ive no idea what you are on about tbh? Has the local club to play their home games 25 or 30 miles away?


  • #248
    I Am Nobody
    Closed Accounts Posts: 725 ✭✭✭I Am Nobody


    BPKS wrote: »
    Curious to know where they got the kegs from? Is it easy to deliver kegs without being noticed? Asking for a friend;)

    Different scenario for me,but I converted the shed out the back into my personal pub.And as long as you have the draught system in place.It's easy to get kegs delivered from a few of the online shops.


  • #249
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,187 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    I'd smoke illegal smuggled cigarettes.


    You know where the money you pay them goes? Not a good idea.


  • #250
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    ingo1984 wrote: »
    No need for a pub license. Just get restaurant license. Permits you to sell alcohol whilst you are serving food. Serve food up until 11.30pm last orders, everyone out the door by 12.30am. Get restaurant license fairly easy. Be surprised how many pubs don't have a pub license but operate off a restaurant license.

    This is complete rubbish.
    With a restaurant licence, over 50% of your turnover must be food - and you aren't allowed to serve people who aren't eating.


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