Found ons- a thing of the past?

signostic · 30-07-2015 01:53AM #1

Just back from the pub on a Wednesday night/Thursday morning and the pub I was in served until 1.20am which had me thinking that in the local court cases reported in the local press no cases of 'found ons' in a long time..hope the trend continues

I hope that reads ok........

DivingDuck · 30-07-2015 02:06AM

My best guess from Google is that it's some kind of lock in?

30-07-2015 02:07AM

In my home village, the Garda station is shut, and the squad has to drive 17 miles from the nearest big town. They do a patrol once a night, usually seen around 2200. After that, we're lawless.

So Garda cutbacks and station closures would be my guess. How bad eh? Enjoy.

NachoBusiness · 30-07-2015 02:13AM

A very well known judge, who shall remain nameless, used to drink until very very small hours in the morning in the old Hawthorn Hotel in Swords back in the early 90s. Around 3am to 4am he would then..

I'll say no more.

Crazy the crap that used to go on all the same.

The Backwards Man · 30-07-2015 02:31AM

Sing Barry Manilow?
Piss his pants?
Turn into a pumpkin?

Tell us FFS!

foggy_lad · 30-07-2015 03:19AM

Sitting up on the bar with his legs spread and saying "My friends call me Alice, but I'll take a dare."

Summer wind · 30-07-2015 04:00AM

A group of us always used to hide downstairs in the bar we drank in when it got raided. We'd be in the basement with our drinks listening to the pub including the toilets being checked out. Then when they were gone we came back up and drank away for another couple of hours. Happy days:D

Peregrinus · 30-07-2015 04:23AM

Just want to point out that a forum called "After Hours" is a singularly appropriate place for a thread discussing found ons.

Menas · 30-07-2015 08:17AM

Our local pub down the country dont really seem to have a closing time...as long as there are punters in there they serve. But to err on the side of caution they allow smoking after hours (so any passing patrol car cant see people outside).....tis like going back in time with the smell of the place.

Annasopra · 30-07-2015 08:21AM

Whats a found on?

strelok · 30-07-2015 08:24AM

i think they mean lock ins?

what kind of a stupid name is found on

Menas · 30-07-2015 08:25AM

Gardai found punters on the premises after licencing hours. I had never heard of it either.

kneemos · 30-07-2015 08:35AM

Mr Strelok was found on the premises of O 'Briens Main Street at 1.30 your honour.

Frynge · 30-07-2015 08:55AM

Pub I used to work had lock-ins pretty much every night. One time we had to call the Gardai after someone was attacked leaving the place at 4:30am. (Some dickhead waiting for him with a machete) any who a new sergeant in the town was not one bit pleased with this and informed us that we would be prosecuted. I had a quite conversation with a local detective who said to make sure that we gave the sergeant the cctv from 2:00am in the morning. We never heard anything more about prosecution, possibly because the sergeant watched the local judge, Fire officers, two senior detectives and a couple of the local solicitors leaving at 3:30am.

Also in the same town there is a pub that I have never been inside during normal opening hours. Used to go for early Sunday pints from 8-12.

Peregrinus · 30-07-2015 09:00AM

It's from the charge that the Guards would bring in the District Court - you were convicted of being "found on" a licensed premises after hours.

At the next licensing session the Guards would raise an objection to the renewal of a licence if there were too many "found on" convictions relating to the premises in question.

kneemos · 30-07-2015 09:02AM

There was one here that had a special knock to get in outside hours.Known only and protected by an elite group.

Annasopra · 30-07-2015 12:00PM

Never heard of a found on before

I have a hilarious clipping at home from a 1984 local paper about My Fathers pub being open at 10am on a Sunday and about 30 or 40 men found on the premises. The excuse was they all wanted to watch Reagan visiting.

fleet_admiral · 30-07-2015 12:04PM

Most pubs do, I drink in one in Harolds Cross that is busier after hours than before the doors close

biko · 30-07-2015 12:09PM

It seems to refer to people found on by Garda in a lock-in.

Never heard it before.

NachoBusiness · 30-07-2015 12:57PM

Refers to the charge of being Found on the premises consuming alcohol when not legally entitled to do so.

Son Of A Vidic · 30-07-2015 01:24PM

I read it as yet another deliberately obscure and wanna be cool, AH thread title attempt.

signostic · 30-07-2015 03:11PM

Looks like "found ons" has disappeared from the lexicon which could infer that the licencing laws are not being policed. It seems ages ago since I read a court case of a pub and its customers being fined for after hour drinking..

Fleawuss · 30-07-2015 03:58PM

It's a type of modern art installation.

Hotblack Desiato · 30-07-2015 10:24PM

Shave and a haircut, two bits?

Fox_In_Socks · 30-07-2015 10:44PM

"I've a real bad found on for drinking in a pub after hours."

Is this how you use it in a sentence?

eternal · 30-07-2015 11:33PM

I genuinely thought the poster had got lucky and felt the need to share it.

cloud493 · 31-07-2015 01:11AM

Every single pub in my town does lock ins almost every night, not a thing of the past.

Zaph · 31-07-2015 01:19AM

I remember being in a packed hotel bar on Inisbofin at about 2am many years ago. One of the locals explained that if the Gardaí wanted to raid the pub they had to ring across to the island to get the ferry to come over to collect them. The ferry was owned by the owners of one of the hotels iirc. The round trip to collect the guard took about an hour and a half, plenty of time for another couple of pints before he arrived. Sadly I think the island got its own Garda a few years ago.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 31-07-2015 01:24AM

It would only be wasting the gardai and court's time bringing such trivial nonsense forward.

Peregrinus · 31-07-2015 02:44AM

In general the Guards take a pragmatic attitude to this. If a house is well run and there are no complaints about it from neighbouring properties, and no public order issues, they have no particular desire to raid it looking for found ons. But if it's a source of constant complaints, disorder, fighting or whatever then, yes, they are looking for concrete issues to raise at the next licensing session. Expect some raids.

foggy_lad · 31-07-2015 06:43PM

I was in a pub in a country(bog) village one wednesday or thursday night and the owner suddenly ran out from behind the bar muttering "oh f**k I'm after forgetting to close over the doors", It was about 3.30am:D

Found ons- a thing of the past?

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