Good Friday - Acquiring alcohol

Bars in Aviva or dog tracks are open. Or just not drink for a day. Might not kill you

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Pubs around the Aviva are open for a couple of hours in the evening

Just those in the stadium itself surely?

syklops wrote: »

In before the "You should have stocked up".

I for one enjoy using loopholes to obtain alcohol today. Though I did stock up, just in case.

Not quite! poster above got in first!

Come to the wild west coast. Plenty of poitín stills around if you know where to look

syklops wrote: »

Theres always one sanctimonious poster who feels the need to point this out.

What's wrong? Lack of booze upsetting you? Hardly being sanctimonious considering I actually answered the question

It's the idea of going on a mission to buy train tickets etc. when the other 51 Fridays of the year these people probably don't set foot in a pub that I find silly

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

How does one go about the acquisition of alcohol today legally? Open to unlawful suggestions. I feel the catholic church has forced me to engage in sin if needed.

Have a 750ml bottle of leffe....a handy €25 should prise it from my grasp if ur that pushed?

I like to think with a pint. I've written novels sitting at a bar with a pint of stout, and pencil and notepad. It's not so much the booze, although the mind lubricating effect of one or two beers certainly helps. It's the atmosphere of the pub. Especially a pub at this hour of the day, when it's mostly empty and the barman/barwoman will occasionally hustle up to you to ask how you're getting on. As well as the act of being perched up next to the bar counter, with a tall seat forcing you to be right on top of your notepad. The acceptance in a pub for shying away from people, and not being cheery and social is a big plus. You're allowed to contemplate the deep things in life, even if you're the shallowest thinker imaginable. Instead a café seem to require some amount of sociability, and looking like you have it together during your chatty chat with your bestie about the latest ska. No plumbing the depths of the unthinkable in a café.

I've been learning to program. I've had many failed attempts, but get further with each stab at it. I've actually implemented something this time, and now I need to draw up a design document to give me some idea of where to go with it and what to do to make the game fun. I'd like nothing more than a quiet bar, where I could sit with my notebook and plan out the game. But today is not the day for that. Even if I could only have a coffee in the pub, the dark, worn wood surroundings are what I need.

I'll have to find a café somewhere, with a comfortable seat for hustling up close to the table.

Drink hand sanitiser from the hospitals. Their already at it.

Should've organised a rugby game down in Limerick. Always next year.

BattleCorp wrote: »

Book into a hotel for tonight. Hotel residents can be served alcohol. But you must be booked in overnight.

I'm in a hotel here in westport having lunch and you can drink away as long as you bought food

Newry has a big Sainsbury's that sells adult beverages. If you go up that way, you can probably buy fireworks too - set them off when you're sh*tfaced at 3AM.