Pubs and Clubs to get longer opening hours

The single annual cert would be vastly cheaper than currently yeah. Tens of thousands a year saving.

The most recent proposed text got rid of the cap but they've got very quiet on it. Publicans are massively against it, they don't like competition and they're a strong lobby group.

Yea I saw that, I thought it was very unbalanced, RTE went out with a camera to get the worst possible scenes on Harcourt St, that only lasts about 20 minutes as the clubs empty everyone out at the same time. You see the same and worse in every european city nightlife district. Most of the talking was left to oul wans from alcohol awareness, and reformed alcoholics like Hugh Wallace, these people have replaced the old Catholic Church as the modern moral police in trying to police what young people do. They were the same oul whingers you used to see on gay Byrnes late late show back in the 80s.

For what it's worth covid did more to increase alcoholism here than any pub or nightclubs because people were sitting at home bored out of their minds drinking at home. The working from home phenomenon also contributed because they didn't have to show their faces at work

Open it up, let the market and buisnesses make the choice. Won't make any difference to me, but 20 years ago, would have been delighted to have options where some bars and venues stayed open later.

Woke nonsense 🤣

Hint of Helen Lovejoy off you. Next you'll be saying "won't someone think of the children"

i respect your point BUT

It will make a difference to you.

You, me, everyone will suffer the effects.

It will make a difference to Society in general -

it has consequences on so many areas - public health, street crime, law and order, lack of public transport, night time worker’s rights, drug crime, alcoholism, to name a few.

The proposal is a ridiculous one, who exactly will it benefit to have establishments serving alcohol until 5 or 6am?

Ireland isn't Spain or Greece where you have people on Sun holidays out to party for two weeks.

There's not enough Gardai on the streets during the day time, so having people falling out of pubs/nightclubs in the early hours has massive implications for Crime and personal safety. Not even the punters but the workers getting home in the early hours when there's only too many scrotes around willing to take advantage of them walking the streets alone..

Well if we don't have the Spanish party crowd then the clubs won't stay open.

It's not mandatory for every club to avail of that licence.

Personally I hate nightclubs but we used sometimes go to the 24hr bar in Empire casino when I worked in pubs in London.

'I don't like it so you can't have it.' This is the Irish mentality. A country where folk can't mind their own business but feel a need to get involved in other people's business.

Where did I mention law in that post ? It's a social thing and a vulgar disgusting one at that.

Spanish people go to clubs as well.

Folk pay the taxes needed to patch up alcohol related harm. Rightly so that they have input to the parameters of selling it.

Congratulations, your Irish passport should be in the post tomorrow. I remember you posted that you were foreign but I can tell you that you are well and truly suited to this country. Killjoys is what ye are.

Anti social behaviour will reduce if people leaving bars is staggered.

Thars the major problem with the current system. Litererally 10s of thousands of people out in Dublin city centre around 2am, all trying to get a taxi or bus home and tempers flare.

Staggering the closures so there is more even distribution of people travelling home will help the guards, the public, the transport etc.

Do you not think that if there was extended opening hours well into the early hours that it would mean that people would leave in smaller groups or alone, leaving them more open to being assaulted and robbed by criminals hanging around the city centre?

Don't drink myself believe it or not.

This is the winner.

Does anyone remember a political objection to a Dublin underground station proposal for OCS in the 80's ? Supposedly gangs would meet up fighting down under there. Someone must have had the bejaysus scared out of themselves after watching the MJ Bad video.