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Opening of "No-Food" pubs pushed out again

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  • #7802
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    I see there's no point in talking sense in this thread. It's full of people screaming "open da pubs!" during a once in a century pandemic

    The drink culture in this country is a little pathetic tbh

    Not as pathetic as your sneering attitude


  • #7803
    the kelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭the kelt


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Id say cheese boards have gotten a popular rise in fame the last few months. Sure it's handy if you just want a few pints and not a massive pizza/burger/chicken wings etc.

    Still placings using small pizza ovens serving pizzas from Tesco and cheap nachos with a bit of cheese and Bolognese sauce over them.

    Is there really an issue though if they are?


  • #7804
    the kelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭the kelt


    AdrianBalboa wrote: »
    You seem to have misread your source there, he says that there haven’t been any “outbreaks” linked with cafes, restaurants and public houses. So your “zero cases” claim remains unproven, probably because it’s hogswallop.

    So how many cases were there?


  • #7805
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Ten of us heading out on Saturday for our Xmas party!! Honestly cannot wait!! Place we are going has some of the best Guinness around. Not often we all get together with family, work and kids. We tried conventional last year and went to CityNorth hotel for an Xmas party, but wasn't the same as our usual spontaneous one. Highlight last year was one of the lads messing with the computer that was showing a fire on a giant screen and googling pornhub on it and leaving the search page open on the giant screen. Never seen so many people scrambling to get to a computer so quickly. :D:D:D:D:D:D


  • #7806
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,297 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Tweet from Fergal Bowers
    No covid-19 outbreaks have been reported linked to cafes,restaurants or public houses in the last two week,according to the latest data from the HPSC


    I am sure NPHET will still blame the hospitality trade when numbers rise in January :rolleyes:

    Cases are already rising, and NPHET are not blaming hospitality.

    Why would January be any different?


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  • #7807
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Allinall wrote: »
    Cases are already rising, and NPHET are not blaming hospitality.

    Why would January be any different?


    Come January they will be blaming the hospitality trade and close them down again


  • #7808
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,297 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Come January they will be blaming the hospitality trade and close them down again

    How do you know?

    Why aren't they doing it now?


  • #7809
    Tazz T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,223 ✭✭✭Tazz T


    Allinall wrote: »
    How do you know?

    Why aren't they doing it now?

    ?

    Er, because we just opened after a six week Level 5 shutdown.

    That said, NYPHET have called a meeting today and will be asking the gov to shut down again, I suspect before Xmas. Gov knows this is political/economic suicide and will put the shutdown back to end of Dec/beginning of Jan. It will be level 5.345643

    You could almost write the story at this stage.


  • #7810
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Allinall wrote: »
    How do you know?

    Why aren't they doing it now?

    Trust me they will. They have done it every time the numbers have risen. Blaming the pubs,restaurants etc for the rise in cases when havent actually backed it up with numbers


  • #7811
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Trust me they will. They have done it every time the numbers have risen. Blaming the pubs,restaurants etc for the rise in cases when havent actually backed it up with numbers

    Yes, as predictable as anything... shut down the Pub-Restaurants, close down "Non-essential" retail and stick 100,000++ people back on the PUP which will be €250 from January I believe?


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  • #7812
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Tazz T wrote: »
    ?

    Er, because we just opened after a six week Level 5 shutdown.

    That said, NYPHET have called a meeting today and will be asking the gov to shut down again, I suspect before Xmas. Gov knows this is political/economic suicide and will put the shutdown back to end of Dec/beginning of Jan. It will be level 5.345643

    You could almost write the story at this stage.

    Called a meeting. Just like they do every Thursday. The fact that a meeting is happening doesn't mean anything.

    Now I do agree that cases have begun to rise and compliance with the regulations is very poor. There may be a sense that 'something needs to be done'.

    Personally I think we will end up with a special address from MM urging people to comply with regulations over the Christmas period.

    I think everyone knows thait compliance with regulations will be poor over the next few weeks so trying to bring in new ones is stupid.


  • #7813
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,470 ✭✭✭MOH


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    I see there's no point in talking sense in this thread. It's full of people screaming "open da pubs!" during a once in a century pandemic

    The drink culture in this country is a little pathetic tbh

    Not sure what you'd know about talking sense since you aren't doing any.
    Go find some verifiable figures that back up your assertions before you start lecturing people about sense.

    The whinge culture in this country is quite pathetic tbh


  • #7814
    fin12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    Looks like the pubs might be shut again before January . Tony Hulahoop wants the restrictions to come back in again before 6 January.


  • #7815
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,300 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Enjoying my pints/food and with seeing the news tonight might be my only chance of a night out before Christmas. Going to be very hard to get in anywhere and all could be shut at close 23rd/Xmas eve


  • #7816
    fin12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Enjoying my pints/food and with seeing the news tonight might be my only chance of a night out before Christmas. Going to be very hard to get in anywhere and all could be shut at close 23rd/Xmas eve

    Do u think that early?


  • #7817
    sasta le
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭sasta le


    Rumour going round the industry be shut very soon again before the end of Christmas


  • #7818
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,045 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    fin12 wrote: »
    Looks like the pubs might be shut again before January . Tony Hulahoop wants the restrictions to come back in again before 6 January.

    Christmas Eve is probably the last legal pints of the year. I don't know why all the panic we knew this would happen and planned for it. Looking like new years in the Sheebeen.


  • #7819
    fin12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    sasta le wrote: »
    Rumour going round the industry be shut very soon again before the end of Christmas

    F*ck sake. Hope get this weekend out of it.


  • #7820
    fin12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Christmas Eve is probably the last legal pints of the year. I don't know why all the panic we knew this would happen and planned for it. Looking like new years in the Sheebeen.

    No I was convinced we would get to at least January 6 date.


  • #7821
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    sasta le wrote: »
    Rumour going round the industry be shut very soon again before the end of Christmas

    Well its not exactly a rumour when Martin said they'll bring in restrictions before NYE but nothing changes until Christmas he said.


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  • #7822
    giveitholly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,234 ✭✭✭giveitholly


    Unfortunately looks like it but can't say i am surprised,only one pub opened near me and it's free for all,no food being served and everyone on top of each other,owners outside the bar drinking with the customers,can't believe the guards haven't it closed already


  • #7823
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,300 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    fin12 wrote: »
    Do u think that early?

    not a big drinker that day myself but Stephens Day will be manic around, lots of local places booked up already for it. Would make sense to shut hospitality down by then

    Very frustrating esp for staff. I only went back to work this week in the retail sector and came off the covid payment and with this news I might be going back on it. The social welfare staff could have a lot of bother ahead of them once again


  • #7824
    brendanwalsh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 988 ✭✭✭brendanwalsh


    Two hotels in castletroy limerick having to shut as both got blasted with cases.

    Four bar stuff in one well known hotel have it with tens of close contacts


  • #7825
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,045 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    fin12 wrote: »
    F*ck sake. Hope get this weekend out of it.

    I'm going tonight just in case, table booked beside the fire and skipped lunch.


  • #7826
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,470 ✭✭✭MOH


    Just back from my first indoor pint since March, along with some food.
    Had planned to stay longer, but filled up a bit and I wasn't comfortable - probably less covid fear (place was well run , and very well spread out) and more down to social anxiety after spending nine months on my own in a 1-bed apartment apart from occasionally sitting outside a restaurant with friends. So being indoors with a group of strangers just feels weird.

    I had planned to be sensible, take it easy up to Christmas when it's busy and maybe go out a bit more after that, but if it's looking like the bull**** hammer is falling again then I may as well go for broke over the next week. No place for common sense in this country any more.


  • #7827
    showpony1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭showpony1


    They are reducing the time the pubs will be open from 7th January - therefore absolutely everywhere will just be packed out there door for the next two weeks.


  • #7828
    fin12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    not a big drinker that day myself but Stephens Day will be manic around, lots of local places booked up already for it. Would make sense to shut hospitality down by then

    Very frustrating esp for staff. I only went back to work this week in the retail sector and came off the covid payment and with this news I might be going back on it. The social welfare staff could have a lot of bother ahead of them once again

    Ya I have places booked for 27th but ya the whole place booked out on Stephens day.

    Sorry to hear about ur in the sector affected by the restrictions


  • #7829
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    Well folks, enjoy a few beers and some food being served up to you before Christmas...

    ...Could be March again before you'll get to go out and dine with friends...



    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/christmas-reopening-to-be-short-lived-as-nphet-seek-new-clampdown-on-home-visits-and-pubs-39875917.html


  • #7830
    doublejobbing 2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭doublejobbing 2


    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    Well folks, enjoy a few beers and some food being served up to you before Christmas...

    ...Could be March again before you'll get to go out and dine with friends...



    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/christmas-reopening-to-be-short-lived-as-nphet-seek-new-clampdown-on-home-visits-and-pubs-39875917.html

    Other reports said NPHET was also after retail.

    The crowds, or lack of, in the run up to Christmas rush this year is nothing short of scary when you think of

    a- the economic hole this has already put us in

    b- the lack of tax income from Christmas shopping being scaled back this year

    I was in Blanch centre on Saturday last and there were dozens, actually dozens, of free spaces down by Liberty Insurance.

    In normal times you'd struggle to get a space on a Tuesday night that close to Christmas.

    Mehole got roasted over his bank bailout comments, surely we must be approaching a good percentage of similar debt from this already.


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  • #7831
    mikekerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 633 ✭✭✭mikekerry


    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    Well folks, enjoy a few beers and some food being served up to you before Christmas...

    ...Could be March again before you'll get to go out and dine with friends...



    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/christmas-reopening-to-be-short-lived-as-nphet-seek-new-clampdown-on-home-visits-and-pubs-39875917.html

    They'll be nothing left to open in March


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