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Pubs to open on Good Friday

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  • #2
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    We did what now exactly?


  • #3
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    Cue the annual "Should pubs be closed on Good Friday?" thread.


  • #4
    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    Pubs are open one more Friday of the year.
    Woohoo.


  • #5
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Looks like half the country gonna rise from the dead the next day so...


  • #6
    DavyD_83
    Registered Users Posts: 1,991 ✭✭✭DavyD_83


    Ah, probably won't bother stocking up or having a drink this year then.
    Is meat still banned? As long as I can still enjoy my sacrilicious BBQ


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  • #7
    Sexual Chocolate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Sexual Chocolate


    Thats my day off work ****ed now.


  • #8
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roRQ2mNwMMQ


  • #9
    Edward M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭Edward M


    Every Friday is a good Friday, but next good Friday will be a good good Friday.


  • #10
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    It'll be a mad sesh this year and then that'll be the end of it.


  • #11
    King George VI
    Registered Users Posts: 4,346 ✭✭✭King George VI


    St Patrick's Day #2 here we go fuckin yes!!!


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  • #12
    bennyineire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭bennyineire


    seamus wrote: »
    It'll be a mad sesh this year and then that'll be the end of it.

    Arthur's day part 2


  • #13
    hynesie08
    Registered Users Posts: 9,683 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    Sexual Chocolate wrote: »
    Thats my day off work ****ed now.

    Only day off in the year is it?


  • #14
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    seamus wrote: »
    It'll be a mad sesh this year and then that'll be the end of it.

    Nope
    Paddy’s day was drink banned and look whatvhappened there


  • #15
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    Oh dear, no more drama anymore and people who normally have a few drinks at home on a Friday anyway making a big deal of having to 'stock up' on cans at 10pm on Holy Thursday.


  • #16
    spoonerhead
    Registered Users Posts: 311 ✭✭spoonerhead


    I completely disagree with closing a business because of religious purposes. But seriously, it’s one day a year to let the staff have a Friday off. They work unsociable hours all year, the one day a year was a deserved break


  • #17
    frag420
    Registered Users Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    The airport and train stations will be empty now as the alcos can go hang at the end of their usual bar...


  • #18
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,727 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    The power of lobbying.

    There was a lot of 'will someone think of the poor tourists.... God love them'.


  • #19
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Phew - the publicans are saved!


  • #20
    daheff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,833 ✭✭✭daheff


    Means Good friday is becoming another regular day in the calendar. All us non public sector workers will now lose our unofficial day off.....just like 6th december.


    Careful what you wish for boardsies. Law of unexpected consequences at work here


  • #21
    NabyLadistheman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭NabyLadistheman


    Pints before and after the stations of the cross, lovely


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  • #22
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Phew - the publicans are saved!

    But the off licences are screwed!!


  • #23
    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    hynesie08 wrote: »
    Only day off in the year is it?

    It used to be a nice little 4 day weekend for hospitality staff the same as it is for a lot of other workers in the country.
    But not any more.
    But hey! As long as we stuck it to those evil archbishops then that’s the main thing...isn’t it?


  • #24
    piplip87
    Registered Users Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭piplip87


    daheff wrote: »
    Means Good friday is becoming another regular day in the calendar. All us non public sector workers will now lose our unofficial day off.....just like 6th december.


    Careful what you wish for boardsies. Law of unexpected consequences at work here


    I have never had Good Friday off. In office work and labouring on sites.


  • #25
    Grayditch
    Registered Users Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    "eugh can Irish people just not drink for one day"

    Sure. Depends on who's asking us not to, though.


  • #26
    hynesie08
    Registered Users Posts: 9,683 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    splinter65 wrote: »
    It used to be a nice little 4 day weekend for hospitality staff the same as it is for a lot of other workers in the country.
    But not any more.
    But hey! As long as we stuck it to those evil archbishops then that’s the main thing...isn’t it?

    But they'd be working the other 3 days anyway??


  • #27
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    One thing i would have done is to extend the Christmas day closure until 12.30pm on Stephens Day to stop the ridiculous nonsense that happened in Donegal of nightclubs opening just after midnight. The workers in that case should have had the right to fully enjoy their day off.


  • #28
    marvin80
    Registered Users Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭marvin80


    splinter65 wrote: »
    It used to be a nice little 4 day weekend for hospitality staff the same as it is for a lot of other workers in the country.
    But not any more.
    But hey! As long as we stuck it to those evil archbishops then that’s the main thing...isn’t it?

    Nothing stopping a bar or hotel from closing for a day or two to give their staff a day off


  • #29
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    But the off licences are screwed!!
    I think we should boycott pubs on Good Friday for the craic now


  • #30
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    I think we should boycott pubs on Good Friday for the craic now

    Whaaat??? But what about all the people who want to make a point by going to the pub on Good Friday, whether it really suits them to go or not.


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  • #31
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    daheff wrote: »
    Means Good friday is becoming another regular day in the calendar. All us non public sector workers will now lose our unofficial day off.....just like 6th december.


    Careful what you wish for boardsies. Law of unexpected consequences at work here

    WTF falls on Dec 6th?


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