Good Friday trading hours

km79

Do most shops open Sunday hours?
Are restaurants allowed open but not sell alcohol ?

ben.schlomo

Shops are open normal hours as its a normal day!!

km79

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Shops are open normal hours as its a normal day!!

And restaurants ?

biko

Good Friday is a normal trading day for most places, restaurants don't sell alcohol but for one night only it's not a biggie imo.

Bobeagleburger

I forgot we still had that stone age law with regards to booze :rolleyes:

Everything else runs as normal OP.

km79

Thanks for the replies. I'm not worried about the lack of booze I was just worried tht licensed restaurants may not be open.
Thanks again

holygoaliefc

AFAIK banks all closed...post offices def closed

Mrs OBumble

rarnes1 wrote: »

I forgot we still had that stone age law with regards to booze :rolleyes:

I guess if we lost the neanderthal behaviour towards booze, we might be able to get the law changed.;)

efb

holygoaliefc wrote: »

AFAIK banks all closed...post offices def closed

It's a Bank Holiday not a public holiday. So banks would be closed.

Kristopherus

Banks, Post Office and all Public Service offices closed.

BhoscaCapall

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

I guess if we lost the neanderthal behaviour towards booze, we might be able to get the law changed.;)

More like if we lost the neanderthal religion

Redhairedguy

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

More like if we lost the neanderthal religion

oooohhh... SNAP!

Paddyfield

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Shops are open normal hours as its a normal day!!

There is no late night shopping on Good Friday. All shops closed by 6pm.

rarnes1

rarnes1 wrote: »

I forgot we still had that stone age law with regards to booze :rolleyes:

Everything else runs as normal OP.

Most people I know have the day off so not really a normal day either as such along with the banks etc being closed.

ben.schlomo

Paddyfield wrote: »

There is no late night shopping on Good Friday. All shops closed by 6pm.

Where are you pulling this from?

inisboffin

Think certain theatre bars have a special license. There are a lot of cultural outings on that night
There was something about restaurants/hotels serving a year or two ago but *think* there was some fallout.

Mrs OBumble

Joseph Raspy Head wrote: »

Most people I know have the day off so not really a normal day either as such along with the banks etc being closed.

Most people I know work for multi-nationals, so it's very much work-as-usual.

I'm just about to start researching, but from memory, most public transport runs as per normal Friday timetable on Good Friday.

And late-night shopping in Galway is on Thursday for most shops. A few open on Friday too, but not all of 'em.

ben.schlomo

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Most people I know work for multi-nationals, so it's very much work-as-usual.

I'm just about to start researching, but from memory, most public transport runs as per normal Friday timetable on Good Friday.

And late-night shopping in Galway is on Thursday for most shops. A few open on Friday too, but not all of 'em.

Other way around i would suggest. And all of the British chains open both nights for late night shopping.

magentas

Paddyfield wrote: »

There is no late night shopping on Good Friday. All shops closed by 6pm.

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Where are you pulling this from?

Yep Paddyfield is right, most shops close earlier on good friday. Where I work, we normally open late Fridays but the shopping centre closes at 6pm that day.

ChunkyLover54

rarnes1 wrote: »

I forgot we still had that stone age law with regards to booze :rolleyes:

A day without being able to buy booze.

How will we survive?

diceyreilly

ChunkyLover54 wrote: »

A day without being able to buy booze.

How will we survive?

That's not the point..

It's because of some fairy tale it should be binned..

thesandeman

Back in 'de day' I reckon the Galway-Athenry train service must have been the biggest ticket seller in the country on Good? Friday. Think the only people who got on the train were the driver and conductor tho ;-)

ChunkyLover54

diceyreilly wrote: »

That's not the point..

It's because of some fairy tale it should be binned..

It's going to be a real struggle not to be able to buy alcohol for one entire day.

Really, I don't know if I can hack it.

Bobeagleburger

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

I guess if we lost the neanderthal behaviour towards booze, we might be able to get the law changed.;)

Great logic there!

If religious Catholics want to abstain from alcohol on good Friday that's fine. It shouldn't mean that everyone else should follow suit.

ben.schlomo

ChunkyLover54 wrote: »

It's going to be a real struggle not to be able to buy alcohol for one entire day.

Really, I don't know if I can hack it.

Still missing the point i see, continue on though, im sure you will be grand with an orange juice and your Bible anyway.:cool:

Bobeagleburger

ChunkyLover54 wrote: »

It's going to be a real struggle not to be able to buy alcohol for one entire day.

Really, I don't know if I can hack it.

You are missing the point by a country mile.
It's a religious law that is completely outdated and has no place in modern society.

You think it curbs underage drinking? Of course not. If anything its a day when there's mass house parties!

Btw, I'm saying this as someone who probably only frequents a pub every 5/6 weeks.

biko

Every year the same arguments
Just a suggestion but if you're against this old law then perhaps start some sort of campaign?

Fey!

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

More like if we lost the neanderthal religion

In which case we can get rid of Christmas, Easter, St. Patricks Day and all of that stuff altogether, including the bank holidays/time off and other things that go with them.

antoobrien

Fey! wrote: »

In which case we can get rid of Christmas, Easter, St. Patricks Day and all of that stuff altogether, including the bank holidays/time off and other things that go with them.

And St. Stephen's day/boxing day, New Years Day, Halloween (the holiday is the last Monday in October), Mayday (May BH, ancient celtic holiday), Whit weekend (june BH), August Bank Holiday (Lughnasa).

Anything left that isn't covered by a (any) Neanderthal religion?

Redhairedguy

I don't think anyone is debating the loss of Good Friday as a day. More the sanctions legally imposed on that day for the sake of a religion that a lot of people no longer follow or believe.

antoobrien

Redhairedguy wrote: »

I don't think anyone is debating the loss of Good Friday as a day. More the sanctions legally imposed on that day for the sake of a religion that a lot of people no longer follow or believe.

It's very easy to say "a lot of people no longer follow or believe" but 3.8m people still describe themselves as being Roman Catholic here in Ireland.