Opening of "No-Food" pubs pushed out again

MrStuffins wrote: »

Sad news!

This is why it's important to support other local pubs this Christmas with your business!

Covid has caused these businesses to struggle. Get out and grab some pints and some €9 meals when you can!

Definatley plan to, we've booked meals etc in 9 of the local places for the coming weeks, plan on making the most of it.

MrStuffins wrote: »

What's a Restapub?

Restaurant/public house

bladespin wrote: »

Restaurant/public house

Exactly....Also the only place to get a Beer served up to you because of the Govt.'s crazy rules leaving anyone who's not lucky enough to have a Restaupub beside them still in the same place they were back in March, but that fact seems to have escaped some people who think that a 2 week opening is something to be grateful for and "who cares" about the 1000's of regular pubs and 1000's of employees who haven't worked for the best part of the year...but sure so long as the creamy pints can be got eh?

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/office-christmas-parties-banned-under-new-rules-for-restaurants-and-pubs-39809491.html?fbclid=IwAR3pJWuH-08qBAQH5UPRebsZjXOclVGiYOjwQAAnqG6TWSxKoPPQuLdllPI

Music banned and cant book 2 tables if more than 6

Tenzor07 wrote: »

Exactly....Also the only place to get a Beer served up to you because of the Govt.'s crazy rules leaving anyone who's not lucky enough to have a Restaupub beside them still in the same place they were back in March, but that fact seems to have escaped some people who think that a 2 week opening is something to be grateful for and "who cares" about the 1000's of regular pubs and 1000's of employees who haven't worked for the best part of the year...but sure so long as the creamy pints can be got eh?

If the pubs think it’s not worth their while opening, then they can make that decision.

But at this stage they must know that they’re screwed by the fact that they’re a non essential business that relies on people being indoors together and being drunk is a great way to lower adherence to distancing rules, which is also the ideal conditions to spread the virus. If numbers go up again, then pubs will close again, and quite rightly so.

It’s unfortunate that their business is hit so badly by this virus, but that’s the nature of their business.

undertaker fan 88 wrote: »

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/office-christmas-parties-banned-under-new-rules-for-restaurants-and-pubs-39809491.html?fbclid=IwAR3pJWuH-08qBAQH5UPRebsZjXOclVGiYOjwQAAnqG6TWSxKoPPQuLdllPI

Music banned and cant book 2 tables if more than 6

Sounds like great fun. Don't think I'll be arsed this time around

Will drop to the local on Saturday, just to see some of the regular faces and the decent bar staff that work there... And to have a pint or two with food that I wont really want obviously. The 90 minute thing, is that still in play??

TomTomTim wrote: »

Stop repeating this nonsense. You clearly weren't in any establishments serving drink the last time around. I was in at least 10 and not one of them had any of the things you've described. They were bland environments, where people sat with whoever they came in with, with very little mingling with others.

The 10 pubs you were in weren’t indoors? Weren’t non-essential businesses? Didn’t have people getting drunk in them? Those are all claims I made in that post, to which you replied “ not one of them had any of the things you've described”.

You sure?

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

But at this stage they must know that they’re screwed by the fact that they’re a non essential business that relies on people being indoors together and being drunk is a great way to lower adherence to distancing rules, which is also the ideal conditions to spread the virus. If numbers go up again, then pubs will close again, and quite rightly so.
It’s unfortunate that their business is hit so badly by this virus, but that’s the nature of their business.

The blame game continues...

Tenzor07 wrote: »

The blame game continues...

I’m not blaming anyone. I specifically said it was just unfortunate as it’s the nature of the business.

Tenzor07 wrote: »

Anyone who's as excited as you for a 2 week Restaupub opening doesn't give a rats about the publicans .....

This makes no sense. You're all over the place again!

MrStuffins wrote: »

This makes no sense. You're all over the place again!

Do you support the opening of Pubs yes or no, and I don't mean Restaupubs, straight answer now if you're able?

Tenzor07 wrote: »

Govt. decided to keep the pubs closed because of a "spike in cases" back in September..

Which ignored the fact that September was the months schools and colleges opened..

Every other country kept the bars open during the summer apart from Ireland... only recently seeing the rise in cases that came after the schools and colleges reopened...

Pubs still to blame...

I don’t think pubs are the main cause of transmission. Schools will certainly be a good place for transmissions. But I think I said in the earlier post that it’s unfortunate for pubs that they’re a non-essential business.

I don’t blame pubs for all the transmissions. But they’re low priority so they’re closer to the top of the list to close first. Nobody to blame, just the nature of the business.

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

It wasn't ignored FYI. It was deemed that Schools and colleges are more important than pubs

And while that’s unfortunate for pubs, it’s absolutely correct.

Tenzor07 wrote: »

Sacrificed for would be more accurate a term...

Holohan wanted to sacrifice the hospitality sector further in December to keep household visits/mixing open, where he knew people would be mixing households anyways..

How brave of him to sacrifice other people's jobs and businesses.

We're lucky to have him.