Pubs and Clubs to get longer opening hours

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?

It won't change that situation which already pertains.

I was in in Cork city today at 3pm. Drunk people out and about in the middle of the day. Should we have no alcohol sold at anytime so?

It's good that premises will have the option but I don't see it helping their businesses, the culture is rapidly changing.

As a result most places will not avail of the ability to stay open later and everyone will still end up being turfed out at the same time.

Seriously though, this has been in place in England for almost 20 years now, I'm sure there is a wealth of research available and analysis both pro and con the current laws there.

I wish someone - instead of trotting out silly “nanny state at it again” or “holy Catholic ireland doesn’t want paddy to go mad” type rubbishy arguments would address the following:

lack of public transport in middle of the night? Particularly so outside Dublin

Gardai resourcing to ensure policing of the heavily intoxicated drunks and drugged at 4:45 am ?-the negotiations for that will be fun...:/

Health resources (A & E and hospitals resourced so that 4:45am is now “rush hour” ?- the nurses will love that...

Public health consequences down the line say 5 years? Alcohol and drug addiction rates?

Consequences on street crime and drug dealing?

Consequences on drink and drug driving in early hours of the morning due to lack of public transport?

Labour resourcing - staffing to work all night and what pay will be provided?

Noise pollution and general annoyance in residential areas where families are in bed asleep but have to get up at 6 am to go to work and school?

Have at it, folks...

Why do I mention drugs? Because I have decades of experience of living in Ireland and I am not naive.

Drugs are a huge part of Irish social scene - absolutely intertwined.

I haven’t used woke repeatedly - check back my posts. I responded to 1 post saying this proposal is woke.

if you are asking me what woke means for me - it means pathetic attempts by politicians to be trendy and “cool” in an attempt to attract popularity.

Please address my earlier post and stop firing abuse at me. Thanks.

I raised many more issues than woke.

Forget about woke, you can have that if you wish, - that’s not my central point.

My central point is there are a myriad of societal consequences that the “ah sure be grand” brigade are ignoring or refusing to address because they know there is no quick fix solution or glib sound bite

It also isn't Berlin or Barcelona.. Also in those European cities have a highly visible Police presence.. we don't have that here. Ever try talking back to the Polizei??

In a nation that's known for its binge drinking(and in Dublin city centre known for its antisocial behavior)... We're not like the Spanish who will only go to a drinking establishment until 9 or 10pm.. And in those cities the only ones falling about the place or fighting in the streets are the tourists..

(As for going on about cycle lanes and Greenways, no idea what you're on about there.)