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Opening of "No-Food" pubs pushed out again

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  • #6722
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    Backing it up? What do you want? A link to the thread?

    You're in it pal!

    More waffle and deflection.


  • #6723
    ShyMets
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭ShyMets


    Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »
    You can place this in the "things Pintman got right" category.

    Called it spot on. There'll be no pints drank this Christmas! Unless you get a meal with it obviously.

    The Indo and RTE have been calling this for days.


  • #6724
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,026 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    saabsaab wrote: »
    There was a big slip up in an RTE interview today. It showed the Palace bar and talked to an owner and a LVA rep. indoors They said that Gov should trust them.



    Nobody shown was wearing a mask!

    Maybe they took their lead from Tony Holohan, who never wears a masks at his indoor press conferences and who I cannot recall ever seeing with a mask on.


  • #6725
    copeyhagen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,354 ✭✭✭copeyhagen


    Leinster90 wrote: »
    I’m not a reporter but it’s because people get less drunk when they are eating as well as drinking. When people get drunk, they become less inhibited and less likely to obey social distancing and other precautions.

    This is the same reason people will only be allowed to stay in a restaurant or gastropub for a limited period of time.

    The people to blame for this are the minority who cannot drink and behave responsibly at the same time. We all know these people, they are too self-centred to limit their alcohol intake and we all have to suffer because of it.

    im sorry, but when pubs were open with food, i sat with the wife and we watched plate after plate of food go into the bin. waitress said "its criminal, most of the food is going into the bin, and we cant even give it to the homeless". that was chalk bar in swords.

    the whole food thing is bull****, theyre using it as an excuse to keep the so called damp pubs closed.. pathetic


  • #6726
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,446 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    copeyhagen wrote: »
    waitress said "its criminal, most of the food is going into the bin, and we cant even give it to the homeless".

    This week on "Things That Definitely Happened"......


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  • #6727
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,751 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    hynesie08 wrote: »
    Were they more than 2 metres away from each other?


    Doesn't matter really in a tight space. Terrible optics. What were they thinking?


  • #6728
    SB71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭SB71


    Where is this Walter Mitty type Melbourne Man who laughingly tried to make out he was somehow involved or close to the government, he said a few times on this forum in no uncertain terms that pubs would not be opening this side of Christmas, poor man probably lives in a bedsit in Rathmines and is on the dole and sits around in his boxer shorts all day on various forums using the dictionary for big words to sound intelligent giving off the impression he's an articulate and intelligent man.:rolleyes::p


  • #6729
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,354 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Doesn't matter really in a tight space. Terrible optics. What were they thinking?

    It does yeah, government advice......


  • #6730
    VG31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,584 ✭✭✭VG31


    bucketybuck wrote: »
    Maybe they took their lead from Tony Holohan, who never wears a masks at his indoor press conferences and who I cannot recall ever seeing with a mask on.

    Challenge: Find a picture of Tony Holohan wearing a mask.

    I haven't found any.


  • #6731
    LuasSimon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭LuasSimon


    What time is Michael Martin due to speak and reveal details ?


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  • #6732
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,446 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    SB71 wrote: »
    as soon as there's a rise again he'll be saying "you should have listened to me i was right" jaysus imagine having to live in the same house as him:eek:

    And what if he IS right? Isn't that him doing his job correctly?


  • #6733
    SB71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭SB71


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    And what if he IS right? Isn't that him doing his job correctly?

    Clearly he is not,NPHET's approach is completely flawed and outdated, locking down the country every 2 months will only achieve one thing, economic suicide and wont get rid of covid-19, the knock on effect from lock downs as many have alluded to will have far more devastating consequences than covid-19 ever will, and will be felt for years to come.


  • #6734
    the rock29
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭the rock29


    Ok even if he's right people are social creatures and the government won't mention the mental health issues or the domestic violence. So food is going to solve covid 19 in pubs


  • #6735
    SB71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭SB71


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    What time is Michael Martin due to speak and reveal details ?

    I think its on the RTE1 news at 6pm or around that time.


  • #6736
    SB71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭SB71


    the rock29 wrote: »
    Ok even if he's right people are social creatures and the government won't mention the mental health issues or the domestic violence. So food is going to solve covid 19 in pubs

    If the situation wasn't so grave it would be the biggest comedy sketch of all time, how can they be taken seriously when they are to allow pubs serving food and not pubs who don't serve food, they were lambasted the first time over this clearly the message hasn't gotten through,beggars lelief.

    Genuinely feel sorry for the thousands of publicans who are victimised here,it's absolute and utter lunacy.


  • #6737
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,471 ✭✭✭MOH


    6 wrote: »
    It's amazing that has to be explained tbh. It should be obvious.
    cadaliac wrote: »
    This is exactly it.
    As 6 said, I can't believe that this has to be explained again.

    I can't believe it has to be explained yet again that pubs opening under the same restrictions as restaurants aren't going to result in drunken hordes roaming the streets roaring covid at each other.

    Nobody's talking about night-long sessions ending in packed nightclubs. I strongly doubt a meal is going to make a huge difference to how drunk somebody is after 1:45. I actually went looking for data to support a difference, but most of the advice seems to be around eating an hour before drinking which isn't going to matter much when you're out 30 mins later.

    A bizarrely huge number of people seem to be incapable of imagining going to a pub and not getting hammered, then projecting their issues onto everyone else and insisting pubs have to stay closed as a result.


  • #6738
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,446 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    MOH wrote: »
    A bizarrely huge number of people seem to be incapable of imagining going to a pub and not getting hammered.......

    Exactly! Those who are incapable of imagining going to the pub and not getting hammered will do exactly that! It's potential for chaos!


  • #6739
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 45,738 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    MOH wrote: »
    I can't believe it has to be explained yet again that pubs opening under the same restrictions as restaurants aren't going to result in drunken hordes roaming the streets roaring covid at each other.

    Nobody's talking about night-long sessions ending in packed nightclubs. I strongly doubt a meal is going to make a huge difference to how drunk somebody is after 1:45. I actually went looking for data to support a difference, but most of the advice seems to be around eating an hour before drinking which isn't going to matter much when you're out 30 mins later.

    A bizarrely huge number of people seem to be incapable of imagining going to a pub and not getting hammered, then projecting their issues onto everyone else and insisting pubs have to stay closed as a result.

    Then why aren't pubs open then? It's not a big conspiracy against the pubs.

    I miss a pint as much as I anyone. I also know after a few, socially distancing goes out the window. Also, live near an area that had superspreader events in pubs.


  • #6740
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    This week on "Things That Definitely Happened"......

    Doubt all you like but I have ordered several meals and with half heartedly picked at them or left them completely.

    I asked a couple of times if o could pay for them and then the next person gets them - paying it forward, apparently not.

    It’s bloody stupid.


  • #6741
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    This is tyranny. Why are the vintners so weak on this?


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  • #6742
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 45,738 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    This is tyranny. Why are the vintners so weak on this?

    They played their hand a few weeks ago. Said publicans have no interest in opening for two weeks for Christmas then closing again. That bluff worked out well. Not very well thought out tbh.


  • #6743
    sp00k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭sp00k


    Any word on closing time for the pubs that can open? Still 11pm or whatever?


  • #6744
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,467 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    sp00k wrote: »
    Any word on closing time for the pubs that can open? Still 11pm or whatever?

    No mention yet but seeing as they've not touched any other guideline yet that was in place previously would assume out by 11.30


  • #6745
    sp00k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭sp00k


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    No mention yet but seeing as they've not touched any other guideline yet that was in place previously would assume out by 11.30




    Independent and Irish Times reporting they're getting rid of the 1h 45 min time limit if the tables are 2m apart.


  • #6746
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,467 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    sp00k wrote: »
    Independent and Irish Times reporting they're getting rid of the 1h 45 min time limit if the tables are 2m apart.

    Don't know why they're saying that. It was always the way, was in the original hospitality guidelines


  • #6747
    One_More_Mile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭One_More_Mile


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    This is tyranny. Why are the vintners so weak on this?
    It's scandalous how weak and cowardly they are. Pitiful really, no kick at all out of them .Doesn't help I suppose when the national media are government lapdogs unwilling to question these decisions aggressively


  • #6748
    Normal One
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭Normal One


    Jesus Murphy i just wanna get drunk as ****, time to overthrow the government and put them and NPHET in the stocks and throw piss jugs at them


  • #6749
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,751 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    hynesie08 wrote: »
    It does yeah, government advice......


    Masks to be worn indoors? from website

    'In shops, shopping centres and some other indoor settings - see the full list of places..'


  • #6750
    the rock29
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭the rock29


    Is the Dail bar open ?


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  • #6751
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't really see the point in waiting a week to re-open. You'd think it would make more sense to re-open on Monday than over a weekend. But I guess that's why they're paid the big bucks.


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