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Opening of "No-Food" pubs pushed out again

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  • #8072
    dwainec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭dwainec


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    well now Christmas Eve is ruined, pubs closed at lunchtime :( ,
    thank christ I have a booking for tomorrow.

    People only have themselves to blame. Shopping centres and Smyth's click and collect queues packed way before the inter county restrictions were lifted. No one wants a lockdown again but no one wants to follow the rules given either.


  • #8073
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,455 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    well now Christmas Eve is ruined, pubs closed at lunchtime :( ,
    thank christ I have a booking for tomorrow.

    They close after last orders Christmas eve according to reports not lunchtime


  • #8074
    Drifter50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Drifter50


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    "escape"?

    If you need to "escape" the house then go for a lovely wander in the fresh air, you'll feel great after it

    Not in a poorly ventilated Pub where the rules are most likely being flouted

    Again, the only word that comes to mind seeing some moaning over the pubs is desperation. And I don't get it at all

    This is not a normal year nor a normal Christmas

    Some need to get that written on T shirts as presents this year

    Yep, that would be right to be fair. If you live on your own you can feel desperate for some company and someone to talk to for a while. Would you recommend its healthy to stay at home on your own for days, weeks on end.
    Maybe go for a walk a couple of times a day in the lovely fresh air, that can get a tad boring after a while
    Just wind the rhetoric back a notch, life is not all your viewpoint


  • #8075
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,418 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    well now Christmas Eve is ruined, pubs closed at lunchtime :( ,
    thank christ I have a booking for tomorrow.

    Changed my bookings now to Wednesday, may as well enjoy the day in the (gastro)pub before hunkering down to what will be yet another level 5(as the last one worked so well)....

    I'd say restaurants will be packed now with customers who were going to enjoy a night out over the holidays, now only left with the 2.5 days...


  • #8076
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,997 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Well, you can pat yourself on the back for enjoying yourself in the new year when cafes, restaurants, pubs and coffee shops are closed for the next three months or so.

    They were going to be closed anyway, so best to enjoy it while i can. Three months of nothing opened better than 4


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  • #8077
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Mark Twain — "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference"

    I'm going to take his advice and head back to the Vaccines thread where there's always intelligence and optimism

    Versus here; where man-children are almost crying because their "playground" is closed and they refuse to understand why it needs to be

    Twain never said that, using made up quotes from the internet make people look like fools. Unfortunately there’s no vaccine for that.


    “Only idiots use made up internet quotes” - Ghandi


  • #8078
    Neowise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭Neowise


    dwainec wrote: »
    People only have themselves to blame. Shopping centres and Smyth's click and collect queues packed way before the inter county restrictions were lifted. No one wants a lockdown again but no one wants to follow the rules given either.


    What is your issue with smyths click and collect.

    Doing smyths click and collect is not breaking any rules, even at lvl 5.


  • #8079
    dwainec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭dwainec


    Neowise wrote: »
    What is your issue with smyths click and collect.

    Doing smyths click and collect is not breaking any rules, even at lvl 5.

    No issue with the click and collect. The issue is people not following the inter county restrictions, that was just one example.

    We need to either lockdown fully for 2/3 weeks or else enforce the rules of inter county travel restrictions etc


  • #8080
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,264 ✭ [Deleted User]


    retalivity wrote: »
    They were going to be closed anyway, so best to enjoy it while i can. Three months of nothing opened better than 4

    Eh, no. All the gargle mongers are going to be responsible for a lot of cafe's, coffee shops and sensible restaurants being closed for months. But yeah, have fun in the interim.


  • #8081
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Eh, no. All the gargle mongers are going to be responsible for a lot of cafe's, coffee shops and sensible restaurants being closed for months. But yeah, have fun in the interim.

    seeing scenes in shops vs the small amount of pubs allowed open, its definitely the shops, they're as packed as ever, people on top of each other. Atleast in a pub everyone sat down.


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  • #8082
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,584 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    vafankillar wrote: »
    was it announced they're closing before christmas eve? brilliant if so
    Christmas Eve lunchtime seems to be suggested.
    I have lunch booked at 2pm on Christmas Eve...so might sneak in...

    https://amp.rte.ie/amp/1185831/?__twitter_impression=true

    It's also in the journal and independent.


  • #8083
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    They close after last orders Christmas eve according to reports not lunchtime

    the Indo are claiming lunchtime. Ive still left my booking intact on the off chance they mis interpreted '12 on Christmas Eve' but tomorrow and Wednesday are going to be busy if not, last pint this side of..... march maybe.


  • #8084
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,584 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    They close after last orders Christmas eve according to reports not lunchtime
    Do you have a link to that?
    Everything I have read is saying mid afternoon on Christmas eve


  • #8085
    harmless
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭harmless


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    seeing scenes in shops vs the small amount of pubs allowed open, its definitely the shops, they're as packed as ever, people on top of each other. Atleast in a pub everyone sat down.


    Fair play! After a long year Christmas is finally here.




  • #8086
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,033 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    Lunchtime on Christmas Eve is just ridiculous. Are pubs realistically going to open at 11 or 12 and close at 1 or 2? Either close them or let them operate till at least 6pm.


  • #8087
    vafankillar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭vafankillar


    Degag wrote: »
    Lunchtime on Christmas Eve is just ridiculous. Are pubs realistically going to open at 11 or 12 and close at 1 or 2? Either close them or let them operate till at least 6pm.


    I think that's the point. instead of just saying you can't open, giving till lunch knowing it's not worth their hole opening up. while still letting cafes/ coffee shops have a good bit of their trade.


  • #8088
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,455 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    gmisk wrote: »
    Do you have a link to that?
    Everything I have read is saying mid afternoon on Christmas eve

    Independent had it earlier now they're reporting a number of proposals being examined including afternoon. The leaks are constantly changing


  • #8089
    GT89
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭GT89


    John O.Groats wrote: »
    You`re still living in fantasy land I see. What is it like there?

    What fantasy land I am only saying what I hope to happen not what I think will happen. I know there's gonna be another lockdown which will appease people like you.


  • #8090
    John O.Groats
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 837 ✭✭✭John O.Groats


    GT89 wrote: »
    What fantasy land I am only saying what I hope to happen not what I think will happen. I know there's gonna be another lockdown which will appease people like you.

    The fact that you even hope it happens is yet another sorry example of the mentality you have. No surprise there I guess. You have a long track record of posting the same sort of ****e at this stage.


  • #8091
    GT89
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭GT89


    John O.Groats wrote: »
    The fact that you even hope it happens is yet another sorry example of the mentality you have. No surprise there I guess. You have a long track record of posting the same sort of ****e at this stage.

    At least be constructive with your posts if you disagree with me fine no need for the aggro it's not gonna get you anywhere. I disagree with the restrictions and hope they end one way or the other.


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  • #8092
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,853 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    dwainec wrote: »
    People only have themselves to blame. Shopping centres and Smyth's click and collect queues packed way before the inter county restrictions were lifted. No one wants a lockdown again but no one wants to follow the rules given either.

    Nail on the head. People want it every way but are going to have to live with the consequences now. It’s been a disgrace since the 5 ended.


  • #8093
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,102 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Nail on the head. People want it every way but are going to have to live with the consequences now. It’s been a disgrace since the 5 ended.

    What consequences? Going to house party's or the sheebeen instead of pubs and restaurants.
    Off licences will be the scapegoats for fuelling illegal gatherings after Christmas day. Small pot distilling will be all the range again come Valentine's day, expect a potato ban in march.


  • #8094
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,853 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    What consequences? Going to house party's or the sheebeen instead of pubs and restaurants.
    Off licences will be the scapegoats for fuelling illegal gatherings after Christmas day. Small pot distilling will be all the range again come Valentine's day, expect a potato ban in march.

    We won’t have spuds because of Brexit apparently.


  • #8095
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,102 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    We won’t have spuds because of Brexit apparently.

    This just goes from varying degrees of brutal to apocalyptic with every passing hour.


  • #8096
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,584 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    We won’t have spuds because of Brexit apparently.
    Not true...apart from the Maris Piper ones that are used for chips in a lot of places, lot of them from UK


  • #8097
    Pintman Paddy Losty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭Pintman Paddy Losty


    Great news to wake up to this morning.



    People have proven they can't be trusted. The cute hoors have to bend and break the rules, and take the proverbial and as a result the doors will be locked up probably until well after Paddy's day this time.



    Are you right there folks please?


  • #8098
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,455 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »
    Great news to wake up to this morning.



    People have proven they can't be trusted. The cute hoors have to bend and break the rules, and take the proverbial and as a result the doors will be locked up probably until well after Paddy's day this time.



    Are you right there folks please?
    Great news to wake up to...

    Have a bit of respect for those who are losing their jobs right before Christmas again will you.

    Must be great on that high horse.


  • #8099
    Sofa King Great
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭Sofa King Great


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Great news to wake up to...

    Have a bit of respect for those who are losing their jobs right before Christmas again will you.

    Must be great on that high horse.

    Like the respect that all the people who broke the rules had?

    The respect that the pubs who didn't insist on serving food had?

    Or maybe the respect that the people who booked 3 restaurants so they could spread out their night had?

    If people had behaved in a responsible manner there would be no need to close hospitality. Unfortunately the minority of people and places that ripped the piss have ruined it for everyone


  • #8100
    mightyreds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭mightyreds


    Sofa King Great wrote: »
    Like the respect that all the people who broke the rules had?

    The respect that the pubs who didn't insist on serving food had?

    Or maybe the respect that the people who booked 3 restaurants so they could spread out their night had?

    If people had behaved in a responsible manner there would be no need to close hospitality. Unfortunately the minority of people and places that ripped the piss have ruined it for everyone


    Wait till you see what happens Stephens day and New Years eve with no regulations in peoples houses.
    Just cause they shut the pubs the problem wont go away people have become less fearful and they will just organise house party's now, well there was probably people planning house party's anyway but i'd say more now are planning them.


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  • #8101
    Sofa King Great
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭Sofa King Great


    mightyreds wrote: »
    Wait till you see what happens Stephens day and New Years eve with no regulations in peoples houses.
    Just cause they shut the pubs the problem wont go away people have become less fearful and they will just organise house party's now, well they were probably people planning house party's anyway but i'd say more now are planning them.

    I dont disagree but you can't regulate on the basis of "people will break the rules anyway"


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