Pub Opening Hours Next Thursday

Snakeblood · 15-04-2011 11:02AM

Geansai Rua wrote: »

I work in a hotel and I have been told i have to work good friday!

Im bar staff...

For god's sake, which hotel?

Geansai Rua · 15-04-2011 11:10AM

Ha im not gonna make work for myself...

My boss is scottish.. maybe he doesnt realise?

Or do residents in a hotel not get to purchase alcohol?

helen1 · 15-04-2011 11:12AM

If you are staying in a hotel you are allowed buy drink

Geansai Rua · 15-04-2011 11:13AM

helen1 wrote: »

If you are staying in a hotel you are allowed buy drink

seamus · 15-04-2011 11:14AM

The new Government are quite pro-secular, so I think we'll see an end to this nonsense earlier than we think.

This time next year, we'll be sick of their crap, talking about the next general election and they'll lift the ban just in time for Good Friday and buy themselves another six months of love from the electorate.

Wazdakka · 15-04-2011 11:15AM

Gotta remember to get all the stock in for my traditional Good Friday drunken BBQ..

Hope the weather is good this year..

the groutch · 15-04-2011 11:33AM

OP = alcoholic

calf · 15-04-2011 11:55AM

Bars in train stations open just buy a ticket and the let you in

neil_hosey · 15-04-2011 12:08PM

im travellling to an island off galway where theres no garda.. wondering if they will open.

ibarelycare · 15-04-2011 03:51PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Can you still buy beer on the train on Good Friday like you used to be able to do?

I think it was because Iarnród Éireann are a soverign state on to themselves, kinda like the Vatican but with more over-priced sandwiches and sh*tty coffee.

Yeah you can, and bars in train stations serve alcohol to ticket holders on Good Friday too.

Geansai Rua wrote: »

I work in a hotel and I have been told i have to work good friday!

Im bar staff...

All hotels bars serve alcohol to residents on Good Friday.

Lapin · 15-04-2011 04:51PM

Geansai Rua wrote: »

I work in a hotel and I have been told i have to work good friday!

Im bar staff...

Are you really saying you didn't know that hotels can serve their residents on Good Friday ?

How did you get a job behind the bar ?

whatsamsn · 15-04-2011 05:26PM

Eever wrote: »

They have to stop serving ad midnight. Then on Friday, a lot of places open at midnight.

What?!
so come 12.01am on saturday 23rd clubs will open up again for around 2 and a half hours then close again?

Dravokivich · 15-04-2011 06:04PM

neil_hosey wrote: »

im travellling to an island off galway where theres no garda.. wondering if they will open.

If there's no garda, there probably isnt enough people on the island to run a pub.

cosanostra · 15-04-2011 08:53PM

helen1 wrote: »

If you are staying in a hotel you are allowed buy drink

Yeah but i think most hotels charge the drink onto the room so the purchase doesn't really take place until check out but as far as the laws concerned its legal to sell alcohol in a residents bar or an airport cause there not actually licenced as public bars

mikemac · 15-04-2011 08:56PM

Geansai Rua wrote: »

I work in a hotel and I have been told i have to work good friday!

Im bar staff...

Of course, you serve the residents
How did you get a job again?

Anyway, a quiet day is the perfect time for a bit of FIFO rotation, ask your boss about that
And a "deep clean". Not sure of the origin of the name but basically you empty every shelf, turn the bar asunder and clean every single corner and crevice, everything!

You're going to be working up a sweat on Good Friday

mgbgt1978 · 15-04-2011 09:13PM

Remember the massive news last year when judge Tom O'Donnell of Limerick district court decided that Munster rugby was bigger than Jesus.
Because of a Magner's league match between Munster and Leinster that happened to coincide with Good Friday it was decreed that the pubs could open between 6pm and 11.30pm.

According to most of the publicans (even though the papers reported that people were being bussed in from as far afield as Kilkenny) it was the one of the quietest nights of the year.....although the off-licences made their usual killing on holy thursday;)

dvpower · 15-04-2011 09:14PM

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Why not. A lot of people choose to have parties on Good Friday. We aren't all into the holy zombie.

Is that a cocktail?

mikemac · 15-04-2011 09:21PM

Up until the 50's or maybe that was the 60's, pubs were closed on St Patricks Day.
Well it is for a saint after all.

A lot of lobbying was done as the tourists couldn't have a drink. So for the sake of the tourism industry the rule was lifted and now it's a big days for drinking.

I can imagine a government Minister trying to ban drinking on St Patricks Day in 2012 and boards.ie would explode in outrage!
But it was there once, a history lesson

im invisible · 15-04-2011 11:21PM

Insurgent wrote: »

Down the North they aren't.

neil_hosey wrote: »

what the fúck does this mean?

maybe he's from malin?

lecker Hendl · 16-04-2011 01:22AM

I did not know it was Good Friday next week. This thread has been very informative to me. Today is also Friday, and I did not drink. I probably won't make an exception next week.

Jesus saves...you money

Pub Opening Hours Next Thursday

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