Will the new government get rid of the 10pm off license closing time?

aligator_am · 07-03-2011 02:55AM #1

Just wondering if they will, and would you support it if they did? Seems a good idea to me to generate more tax from off license employees and more revenue from punters who would visit after 10pm.

What you folks reckon?

RichieC · 07-03-2011 02:57AM

It's a retarded idea, get rid of it I say.

starviewadams · 07-03-2011 02:59AM

Probably end up costing more taxpayers money to pay for Gardai,Paramedics,Nurses and Doctors to look after more intoxicated underage people.

Metallitroll · 07-03-2011 03:06AM

only time i might actually want a drink is after 10. don't even remember why it came in a few yr ago, tbh, they should just nip it in the bud and crack down on tracksuits

Eric Cartman · 07-03-2011 03:06AM

starviewadams wrote: »

Probably end up costing more taxpayers money to pay for Gardai,Paramedics,Nurses and Doctors to look after more intoxicated underage people.

man thats bullsh*t , underage lads all get their drink at 8-9 and are drunk by 10-11 anyway, opening the offos later wont do anything to underage drinking

mikemac · 07-03-2011 03:10AM

Doubtful, Fianna Fail may have been the publican party but Fine Gael have their own set of publicans and vested interests

Different parties but much the same on this issue

Millicent · 07-03-2011 03:12AM

starviewadams wrote: »

Probably end up costing more taxpayers money to pay for Gardai,Paramedics,Nurses and Doctors to look after more intoxicated underage people.

Yeah, cos no one gets pissed and injured with the licencing laws as they are and underagers only get pissed when they can buy in the morning...

Rented Mule · 07-03-2011 03:12AM

starviewadams wrote: »

Probably end up costing more taxpayers money to pay for Gardai,Paramedics,Nurses and Doctors to look after more intoxicated underage people.

Ahhh.....the children. They always say that it is there to protect the children.

What a load of ****.

If the issue that kids are getting their hands on drink, then address that issue first.

mikemac · 07-03-2011 03:17AM

If you're going to be worried over the children one idea touted for years was the off license would label everything they sell.
So if the gardai come along and find underagers drinking they can see where the drink came from.

It's not a perfect idea but it's a good one imo.

Better that then this stupid 10pm rule which seems to be more about keeping publicans happy

halpin17 · 07-03-2011 03:20AM

I find I buy more drink because I know it closes at 10 and I wont get back to it on time to buy more, if u bought a lesser amount earlier

starviewadams · 07-03-2011 03:21AM

In my area nyways I noticed a big difference in anti-social behaviour once the 10pm rule came in,fields at the back of our house used to be full of drunk 13-17 year olds til 5/6am most weekends shouting,fighting and carrying on,now only the odd weekend it happens and they're usually gone by 11pm or so.

Millicent · 07-03-2011 03:22AM

starviewadams wrote: »

In my area nyways I noticed a big difference in anti-social behaviour once the 10pm rule came in,fields at the back of our house used to be full of drunk 13-17 year olds til 5/6am most weekends shouting,fighting and carrying on,now only the odd weekend it happens and they're usually gone by 11pm or so.

Really? Can ye tell the ones round my way to piss off then?! Haven't noticed any difference.

RichieC · 07-03-2011 03:22AM

starviewadams wrote: »

Probably end up costing more taxpayers money to pay for Gardai,Paramedics,Nurses and Doctors to look after more intoxicated underage people.

Must take effort to be so wrong.

Oranage2 · 07-03-2011 03:29AM

starviewadams wrote: »

In my area nyways I noticed a big difference in anti-social behaviour once the 10pm rule came in,fields at the back of our house used to be full of drunk 13-17 year olds til 5/6am most weekends shouting,fighting and carrying on,now only the odd weekend it happens and they're usually gone by 11pm or so.

Thats not down to closing times - It's because of the cuts to their parents social welfare!

Nothingbetter2d · 07-03-2011 05:52AM

starviewadams wrote: »

Probably end up costing more taxpayers money to pay for Gardai,Paramedics,Nurses and Doctors to look after more intoxicated underage people.

not true if anything they would drink less cos they would start drinking alot later.

Pingu-D · 07-03-2011 05:56AM

Finn Gael made a statement about how they were going to try and crack down on big supermarkets selling cheap drink in an attempt to bring business back into the pubs so cant see them doing it im afraid!

smellslikeshoes · 07-03-2011 06:11AM

Way too many publicans in the Dail as a whole for this to happen.

karlog · 07-03-2011 08:14AM

Pingu-D wrote: »

Finn Gael made a statement about how they were going to try and crack down on big supermarkets selling cheap drink in an attempt to bring business back into the pubs so cant see them doing it im afraid!

I regret voting for them.

Biggins · 07-03-2011 09:31AM

aligator_am wrote: »

Just wondering if they will, and would you support it if they did? Seems a good idea to me to generate more tax from off license employees and more revenue from punters who would visit after 10pm.

What you folks reckon?

No.

sbsquarepants · 07-03-2011 11:16AM

starviewadams wrote: »

In my area nyways I noticed a big difference in anti-social behaviour once the 10pm rule came in,fields at the back of our house used to be full of drunk 13-17 year olds til 5/6am most weekends shouting,fighting and carrying on,now only the odd weekend it happens and they're usually gone by 11pm or so.

Hang on a minute i'm not sure i understand what you're saying. You seem to be saying that because the off licence closes an hour and a half earlier, the underage drinkers in your area now go home 6 or 7 hours earlier than they would otherwise, if they bother to have a drink at all?

Seems a bit unlikely to be honest!

Run_to_da_hills · 07-03-2011 11:30AM

starviewadams wrote: »

Probably end up costing more taxpayers money to pay for Gardai,Paramedics,Nurses and Doctors to look after more intoxicated underage people.

Most underage drinkers would get their booze in Tesco or Dunnes during the day where its a lot cheaper and easier to get than at the bottle shops.

Mark200 · 07-03-2011 11:40AM

karlog wrote: »

I regret voting for them.

They made that statement before the election.....

u140acro3xs7dm · 07-03-2011 11:41AM

Very few kids would have got their booze after ten. A lot of people buying after this would be people finishing work late, so now they have to buy in bulk before hand just in case they want a drink. Teenagers are hanging around the offies from about 7 or 8 and it has always been that way. I dont think I ever had a teenager come up to me after 10 asking me to get them booze. I say it has had a bad effect on your local off license but the likes of Tesco are doing better as people stock up now on booze when they are doing the shopping. Go into any big supermarket and most people doing their weekly shopping will have booze in the trolley.

El Siglo · 07-03-2011 11:45AM

Probably try and ban drinking indoors or something retarded like that.

questionmark? · 07-03-2011 11:56AM

starviewadams wrote: »

Probably end up costing more taxpayers money to pay for Gardai,Paramedics,Nurses and Doctors to look after more intoxicated underage people.

So what your saying is that only underage people would buy drink after 10 at night.

Underage people are too stupid to try and buy drink before 10 and thus dont!!

Spunge · 07-03-2011 12:01PM

starviewadams wrote: »

In my area nyways I noticed a big difference in anti-social behaviour once the 10pm rule came in,fields at the back of our house used to be full of drunk 13-17 year olds til 5/6am most weekends shouting,fighting and carrying on,now only the odd weekend it happens and they're usually gone by 11pm or so.

Theyre probably old enough to go to the pub now.

07-03-2011 12:05PM

When I was 15/16/17, we'd buy our drink round 9.. This doesn't stop underage drinking or affect it in the slightest.

I'll never forget my brothers face when he got home from the airport at half 10 and wanted to go back into town to have a few cans with me in the house.. He'd only been gone a few years and couldn't believe an adult couldn't buy drink at half 10. We went to the pub funny enough so it fits in perfectly with what people are saying in this thread.

Azureus · 07-03-2011 12:05PM

The amount of underage people buying drink after 10 was slim to none I reckon... I doubt that law had any effect on 99% of em.

It does screw most working people over though, the only people it benefits are the publicans. And if FG *do* try and place a ban on supermarkets selling cheap drink it's gonna really suck, because that's where the majority of people buy their booze now, ahead of time just in case, rather than the night of a session in an off licence.

Spunge · 07-03-2011 12:10PM

Im sure pubs would lose a lot of money if the hours went back to like 12:30, like my local used to. Most people are too sober to want a lot of drink before 10pm. They might have only got a few cans then want a lot more, and the only option left is fiver a pint for a few hours.

mike kelly · 07-03-2011 12:14PM

just stock up on drink at the supermarket - are irish people so disorganised that we can't manage that?

Spunge · 07-03-2011 12:15PM

mike kelly wrote: »

just stock up on drink at the supermarket - are irish people so disorganised that we can't manage that?

But why should we have to stock up on drink ?

Will the new government get rid of the 10pm off license closing time?

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