Whats the Story With Coppers???

Shouldnt this be in the dublin forum

Coppers /= After Hours anymore.

I'll be out on Harcourt tonight and I'll verify whether or not this is actually true. Will be raging if it is, tbh. Coppers isn't my thing, but the fact that Coppers has always got away with late opening has meant that every other Nightclub in the Stephen's Green area has been able to do the same, all the way as far as places like Baggot St and Wexford St. If the 2.30-3AM closing time starts getting enforced, nights out in Dublin will go back to being as boring as they were back in 2008-2009. :mad:

It doesn't seem to be entirely true. Last night it seemed to close a bit after 4. DJ of a nearby club told me that the Harcourt clubs did get a bit of a talking to but that it's generally 4AM, not 2.30, that they have to kick everyone out by.

A lot of the clubs around there are part of large hotels, and essentially because hotel residents bars are allowed to operate outside the normal licensing hours, and because it's pretty much impossible when people are leaving the club to determine who's a resident and who isn't, it's almost impossible to enforce. At least six of the big Harcourt clubs are attached to hotels.

I won't specify which one I was in for obvious reasons, but I happily got a pint at around 4AM

If anything, what might become a little stricter for a while until it's forgotten about it admission times. IE, you'll no longer see big queues to get in to Coppers at 3.30, they'll probably have to stop admitting new people at ~3 to maintain the facade of it being residents only after that.

Delighted that it isn't so bad tbh, OP's post gave me a mini heart attack yesterday. Nightlife in Dublin ~2009 when the 2.30 thing was actually enforced was incredibly bleak.

EDIT: actually there would be one positive if they really did reign it in properly - the return of the lock-in. Once the clubs got over the initial shock of the 2.30 rule, around 2011-2013 there were a bunch of clubs in Dublin which did clandestine lock-ins, where they'd put down the shutters, lower the music volume and turn off a lot of the lights in order to appear closed. They would then sneak people out the back door, usually an emergency exit, when people were leaving.

Always got a bit of a thrill out of feeling like we were f*cking the establishment. So it'd at least be a bit of fun if that became the norm again for late nights.