Pubs to open on Good Friday

Boom_Bap · 25-01-2018 5:18pm

jonnycivic wrote: »

No no no..... 12 Offies of Easter

You go to Offie 1 and buy something new
Then to Offie 2 and buy something new not tried before
Offie 3 same again, all the way up to Offie 12 where you buy your normal selection, then as soon as its all bought down it as quick as possible

Sounds like a lot of work, might just go for a pint instead.

marvin80 · 25-01-2018 5:20pm

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

They should make it an official Bank Holiday - like an Ireland/National day like what was recommended in 2016.

billbond4 · 25-01-2018 5:20pm

I assume that the politicians have the housing & health service crisis fixed if they had time to spend debating this?

splinter65 · 25-01-2018 5:21pm

marvin80 wrote: »

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

But if all the other bars and hotels are going to be open then that would be business suicide.

Sue Pa Key Pa · 25-01-2018 5:21pm

spoonerhead wrote: »

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

You do know that bar staff don't work 363 days a year with only Good Friday and Christmas off?

seamus · 25-01-2018 5:22pm

jonnycivic wrote: »

No no no..... 12 Offies of Easter

You go to Offie 1 and buy something new
Then to Offie 2 and buy something new not tried before
Offie 3 same again, all the way up to Offie 12 where you buy your normal selection, then as soon as its all bought down it as quick as possible

The Stations of the Pub

14 pubs, in each you down an increasingly more horrific shot.

wexie · 25-01-2018 5:22pm

jonnycivic wrote: »

WTF falls on Dec 6th?

Culchie Christmas shopping?

Tigger · 25-01-2018 5:23pm

seamus wrote: »

Paddy's Day is a public holiday and a national celebration though.

Good Friday is neither. The only reason people partied on Good Friday is because it was banned. Any excuse for a piss up. Now that excuse is gone.

Good Friday is a Public holiday same as paddy’s at
Paddy’s day is also sometimes a bank holiday although no this year
People will continue to party on good Friday

Sue Pa Key Pa · 25-01-2018 5:23pm

AMKC wrote: »

Absolutely disgraceful. I think this is very sad that people could not just do without going to the pub for one day. This will just mean more drunks ending up in hospitals and more problems for our already overcrowded and understaffed hospitals and emergency services.

Fair point, I missed the stipulation that it was being made compulsory to go to the pub

splinter65 · 25-01-2018 5:24pm

jonnycivic wrote: »

WTF falls on Dec 6th?

For a lot of public servants Dec 8 was and continues to be yet another extra days annual leave.
A day to get your Christmas shopping.
My brother a public servant retired there at 55 last year and he still got it, but he was still getting an hour off per week to cash his pay Cheque too, despite being paid monthly by electronic transfer.

splinter65 · 25-01-2018 5:26pm

Tigger wrote: »

Good Friday is a Public holiday same as paddy’s at
Paddy’s day is also sometimes a bank holiday although no this year
People will continue to party on good Friday

Good Friday is absolutely not a public holiday. It is a bank holiday, a big difference.

Reputable Rog · 25-01-2018 5:27pm

Make Good Friday great again. Don't think I'll bother going to the pub now that I have a choice.
Time for a campaign for Christmas Day opening.

uptherebels · 25-01-2018 5:28pm

AMKC wrote: »

Absolutely disgraceful. Next thing is people will want the pubs open on Christmas day as well. I think this is very sad that people could not just do without going to the pub for one day. This will just mean more drunks ending up in hospitals and more problems for our already overcrowded and understaffed hospitals and emergency services.

dont think its much about not going to the pub for a day and more to do with not having the church dictate when something can and cannot be done.
I mean its not like those drunks were sober cause of the pubs being closed

25-01-2018 5:28pm

The Good Friday house parties will be just pointless now. Stupid normal Fridays

Boom_Bap · 25-01-2018 5:29pm

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

The Good Friday house parties will be just pointless now. Stupid normal Fridays

they are not normal, you can't bring a meat platter to the party

25-01-2018 5:30pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

they are not normal, you can't bring a meat platter to the party

Stupid nearly normal Fridays.

Kimbot · 25-01-2018 5:31pm

splinter65 wrote: »

For a lot of public servants Dec 8 was and continues to be yet another extra days annual leave.
A day to get your Christmas shopping.
My brother a public servant retired there at 55 last year and he still got it, but he was still getting an hour off per week to cash his pay Cheque too, despite being paid monthly by electronic transfer.

Thats horse crap, I am a public servant, december the 8th is no day off for us and hasn't been in years. Also the time for cashing cheques disappeared years ago and even at that you got 30 minutes not an hour.

jr86 · 25-01-2018 5:32pm

seamus wrote: »

Paddy's Day is a public holiday and a national celebration though.

Good Friday is neither. The only reason people partied on Good Friday is because it was banned. Any excuse for a piss up. Now that excuse is gone.

It's before a bank holiday weekend too.

Will be a standard enough Friday really, probably quieter actually with the reason above

Anyhow this was always going to happen sooner rather than later. I'm sure it'll eventually happen for Christmas Day too - some nightclubs are opening at 12.00am St Stephen's Day anyhow

Kimbot · 25-01-2018 5:33pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Sounds like a lot of work, might just go for a pint instead.

Wheres your sense of adventure Boomy :P

Ineedaname · 25-01-2018 5:34pm

spoonerhead wrote: »

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

You do realise they are entitled to holidays same as everyone else right?

They don't actually work every other day of the year....

pawdee · 25-01-2018 5:36pm

This is what happens when people stop saying the rosary.

georgina toadbum · 25-01-2018 5:36pm

This is going to suck the fun out of drinking of Good Friday.
I only ever wanted to do it because I was told I wasn't allowed.

MrPudding · 25-01-2018 5:38pm

spoonerhead wrote: »

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

yeah, it allowed them to be off on a Friday and head out themselves for a drink. Sad. Wait...

MrP

andekwarhola · 25-01-2018 5:40pm

spoonerhead wrote: »

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

There's these things called annual holidays you might not have heard about?

Boom_Bap · 25-01-2018 5:40pm

jonnycivic wrote: »

Wheres your sense of adventure Boomy :P

That is my sense of humour. :pac:

Although I did make a quip about 'lashing' pints a few posts back which is the darker side of my humour that nobody seemed to pick up on.

marvin80 · 25-01-2018 5:42pm

splinter65 wrote: »

Good Friday is absolutely not a public holiday. It is a bank holiday, a big difference.

I don't think Good Friday is officially a Bank Holiday.
Some companies give it as a day off and call it a Company Day - other companies it's just a normal working day.

lertsnim · 25-01-2018 5:43pm

splinter65 wrote: »

I think if the hospitality staff can’t have it off, nobody should have it off. Don’t you agree?

Lots of people don't have it off anyway.

BattleCorp · 25-01-2018 5:44pm

spoonerhead wrote: »

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

Having worked in a rural pub, I can confirm that Good Friday was never a day off. It was one of the busiest days of the year. It was an all-day lock-in.

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 25-01-2018 5:45pm

splinter65 wrote: »

For a lot of public servants Dec 8 was and continues to be yet another extra days annual leave.
A day to get your Christmas shopping.
My brother a public servant retired there at 55 last year and he still got it, but he was still getting an hour off per week to cash his pay Cheque too, despite being paid monthly by electronic transfer.

What are you on about? I worked in the Public Sector for years and we never, ever got Dec 8th off.

My father was also a public servant and he never got 8th December off either, and he would have been a lot older than your brother.

wexie · 25-01-2018 5:46pm

BattleCorp wrote: »

Having worked in a rural pub, I can confirm that Good Friday was never a day off. It was one of the busiest days of the year. It was an all-day lock-in.

that's terribly bold!!

purple hands · 25-01-2018 5:49pm

For the tourists....yes....

25-01-2018 5:54pm

It's a start but I won't be happy until we have 24/7 off-licences. I don't drink anymore but running out off booze was one of the biggest nuisances on a night out.

AMKC wrote: »

Absolutely disgraceful. Next thing is people will want the pubs open on Christmas day as well. I think this is very sad that people could not just do without going to the pub for one day. This will just mean more drunks ending up in hospitals and more problems for our already overcrowded and understaffed hospitals and emergency services.

Every time there's a thread on this subject, this stupid argument always pops up. By saying we can't do without the pub for one day implies all 4.8 million people in this country spend the other 364 days in the pub, which is obviously a load of bollocks or else this country would resemble an Indigenous Australian community nearly where everyone is unemployed and drunk.

All we want is the choice to drink on whatever day and at whatever time we see fit. Just because someone want to drink on Good Friday, it doesn't mean they drink the following day.

seamus · 25-01-2018 5:57pm

Tigger wrote: »

Good Friday is a Public holiday same as paddy’s at

No, it's not.

Paddy’s day is also sometimes a bank holiday although no this year

Paddy's day is always a public holiday.

Odhinn · 25-01-2018 6:16pm

BattleCorp wrote: »

Having worked in a rural pub, I can confirm that Good Friday was never a day off. It was one of the busiest days of the year. It was an all-day lock-in.

I saw this is killorglin many years ago. It was like a christmas party, but in a pub in a town that otherwise showed no sign of life, except for the garda on the door, who would occasionally go inside to make sure 'nothing was going on' when the garda inside came out for his turn.

drake70 · 25-01-2018 6:20pm

splinter65 wrote: »

For a lot of public servants Dec 8 was and continues to be yet another extra days annual leave.
A day to get your Christmas shopping.
My brother a public servant retired there at 55 last year and he still got it, but he was still getting an hour off per week to cash his pay Cheque too, despite being paid monthly by electronic transfer.

December 8th is a holy day when the schools are off and because of that it was a popular day to bring the kids Christmas shopping.

I've been in the public service for 27 years and have never had it off except when it fell on a Saturday or Sunday.

Bank time, which has now been abolished, was only a half hour per pay day.

murpho999 · 25-01-2018 6:26pm

Good decision this.

Our laws should not be dictated by old church demands that they don't even demand any more.

Let adults decide for themselves what they want to do.

I think the alcohol ban led to more binge drinking and drink related incidents than a normal Friday night.

Also, can people please stop this thing about bar staff and time off. They get time off just like the rest of us and bars have rosters that give Fridays off etc.

They are also off when most crawl out of bed on a Monday morning.

Rumpy Pumpy · 25-01-2018 6:27pm

Now we can have more threads giving out about the price of drink in pubs, and why no one goes to them because of this.

_Dara_ · 25-01-2018 6:33pm

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 don’t know anyone outside of public sector workers who got Good Friday off.

Hotblack Desiato · 25-01-2018 6:36pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

That is my sense of humour. :pac:

Although I did make a quip about 'lashing' pints a few posts back which is the darker side of my humour that nobody seemed to pick up on.

Bit of a thorny issue for some, but I thought your post nailed it

_Dara_ · 25-01-2018 6:38pm

AMKC wrote: »

Absolutely disgraceful. Next thing is people will want the pubs open on Christmas day as well. I think this is very sad that people could not just do without going to the pub for one day. This will just mean more drunks ending up in hospitals and more problems for our already overcrowded and understaffed hospitals and emergency services.

What? Good Friday was a huge day for big messy house parties. I have never read such a flimsy argument.

ANDREWMUFC · 25-01-2018 6:38pm

And they absolutely steamed. Falling around the place like there’s no tomorrow

25-01-2018 6:51pm

I'm going to miss the kick I'd get watching the news to see the stags and hens wandering around temple bar moaning about the pubs closed

A Little Pony · 25-01-2018 6:57pm

Irish people need to stop drinking, not being encouraged to drink more. One of the worst problems with the country is the drinking culture.

The_Valeyard · 25-01-2018 7:00pm

Militant atheists are going to be fairly upset by this news. Yet another thing to complain about taken away from them.

Beechwoodspark · 25-01-2018 7:01pm

That wanker crockwell is involved in this law change so for that alone I’m against this

splinter65 · 25-01-2018 7:01pm

Reputable Rog wrote: »

Make Good Friday great again. Don't think I'll bother going to the pub now that I have a choice.
Time for a campaign for Christmas Day opening.

Just because some people still think Christmas Day should be a family day, we shouldn’t be forced to adhere to someone else’s ideals .
Pubs open on Christmas Day now!

_Dara_ · 25-01-2018 7:03pm

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Militant atheists are going to be fairly upset by this news. Yet another thing to complain about taken away from them.

Hardly. Many will be very happy with what this means: a further step toward complete separation of church and state.

splinter65 · 25-01-2018 7:03pm

drake70 wrote: »

December 8th is a holy day when the schools are off and because of that it was a popular day to bring the kids Christmas shopping.

I've been in the public service for 27 years and have never had it off except when it fell on a Saturday or Sunday.

Bank time, which has now been abolished, was only a half hour per pay day.

My brother was in since 1979. Those were the conditions he started with, and finished with.

joe40 · 25-01-2018 7:03pm

There used to be 3 days a year when pubs were closed, christmas day, good friday and St. Patricks day. About time this law was changed. If you don't want to go to the pib then don't

NinetyTwoTeam · 25-01-2018 7:04pm

I don't even drink any more but I support this change.
Years ago was in a pub on Holy Thursday and the gardai came in on the stroke of midnight telling everyone to finish up and leave. One lad tried to argue that we had bought the drink before 12 and should be free to finish it at whatever pace we want. Cops took his name and he got issued a 100 euro fine in the post for public order.

No need for that carry on, and no need for any church to be involved in laws to tell people when they can drink or eat something.

People moaning about losing a day off - the pub owners isn't being forced to open, they could still give you the day off, but sadly many won't.

Pubs to open on Good Friday

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