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Pubs when/will they re-open - the Megathread

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    #602
    subpar
    Registered Users Posts: 493 ✭✭subpar


    Trump says Bars can reopen once customers wear a face mask.


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    #603
    stephenjmcd
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    CiarraiAbu2 wrote: »
    There was a meeting of VFI last week, they believe that there wont be any pubs open for the rest of this year.

    Not a chance. Opening in Austria in 2 weeks I think it is, have to close by 11 each night at the start. Italy looking to reopen next month.

    Its highly unlikely they'll be closed until next year. Spoke to a publican recently on the LVA committee, July is what they were thinking and hes starting to line up the deep clean prior to reopening


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    #604
    CiarraiAbu2
    Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭CiarraiAbu2


    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Not a chance. Opening in Austria in 2 weeks I think it is, have to close by 11 each night at the start. Italy looking to reopen next month.

    Its highly unlikely they'll be closed until next year. Spoke to a publican recently on the LVA committee, July is what they were thinking and hes starting to line up the deep clean prior to reopening

    Hope your right


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    #605
    Banana Republic.
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    subpar wrote: »
    Trump says Bars can reopen once customers wear a face mask.

    And a beer hat :D Homer had the right idea.


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    #606
    maestroamado
    Registered Users Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭maestroamado


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    I sometimes spent that in 2 weeks when I was drinking professionally.

    Add in active participation on the dating scene and you can easily be blowing more. On dates alone.

    It is only when moths get their paws into you fulltime that your wallet really collapses. Once the weekend trips to Paris, Berlin and Lisbon kick in. Those Booking .com 459euro spending sprees before you have a cocktail at the bar before dinner. Luckily by that stage they have the parole chain around your ankle and you get texted every 3 of your waking hours to make sure you don't contemplate going for a pint anyway.... which you eventually will because you get sick to death of sitting on your couched ass watching stupid shight on television like some knacker on EastEnders pulling a red faced temper tantrum down the square or some other bland US sitcom with prompted laughter or worse still a fly on the wall expose about some corrupt Irish business ripping off people to some slow unmelodic background music that is attempting to compensate the actual lack of tension that the entire concept was giving.

    Eating maltesers on the couch watching shight TV is just as bad for you. You are better off bringing a book to the pub and having a drink. I said it first.


    That reminds me of the guy who goes to the Doctor to have his engine checked, as usual the good Doctor was discussing eating/drinking habits.
    Then he mentioned units and the amount allowed, he explained man allowed 28 units and the patient said that seemed a lot and that a unit was half pint so it be 14 and patient thought this ok.
    The Doctor said then that was the weekly amount allowed.
    Oh Doctor i thought you were talking amount per day.


    I was talking to a publican the other day and because he abit rural he said the cigarette supplier was removing the stock from dispensers in pubs so they be target for being robbed.

    He said most were saying take machine as they not re-opening.


    I was talking to a friend yesterday whos daughter in shop, she said the wife will come in the afternoon for 2 bots of wine.
    Then a few hours later the husband will arrive half-cut in the car for two bottles of vino.
    The only loser here is the pub as there is actually more profit for the supplier in the off trade...


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    #607
    easypazz
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    stephenjmcd wrote: »
    Not a chance. Opening in Austria in 2 weeks I think it is, have to close by 11 each night at the start. Italy looking to reopen next month.

    Its highly unlikely they'll be closed until next year. Spoke to a publican recently on the LVA committee, July is what they were thinking and hes starting to line up the deep clean prior to reopening

    Soon enough we could have 3 or 4000 people milling around shopping centres on a wet sunday, or darts and commuter trains packed twice a day.

    At that stage there will really be no justification for keeping pubs locked.


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    #608
    stephenjmcd
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    CiarraiAbu2 wrote: »
    Hope your right

    So do I. Publican I spoke too said plenty in the locality won't reopen but that he counts himself lucky as they own the building outright as it's been in the family for generations.


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    #609
    Fitz*
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    Italy has more of a restaurant that serves alcohol culture more than a pub culture that we have in Ireland so I don't think they would be the same model to follow.


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    #610
    Icepick
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    Sleety_Rain wrote: »
    Next year? Ha

    There opening bars in Italy by end of May.

    You're deluded if you think the bars will not be allowed to open here beyond July, at the very latest
    outside seating with a lot of sun

    quite different from stuffy pubs


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    #611
    Blueshoe
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    Icepick wrote: »
    outside seating with a lot of sun

    quite different from stuffy pubs

    People have a drink and leave. They don't hang around all day then stagger up the street making a show of themselves. Some are no better than the junkies wandering around Dublin off their nut


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    #612
    Banana Republic.
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    It’ll be very interesting to see which pubs open after all this in each town plus will the culture change around drinking and go towards socially spending time with friends instead of just going out to get hammered. I’ve realized it’s your friends that really you enjoy when you go out, mainly anyway, we all love the few pints but be interesting if there is any mood change. Strange experience for a while I tell ya that.


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    #613
    JCX BXC
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    There'll be a hell of alot of people who'll go out just to get hammered once this is over.


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    #614
    Banana Republic.
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    JCX BXC wrote: »
    There'll be a hell of alot of people who'll go out just to get hammered once this is over.

    Apart from that. Haha


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    #615
    never_mind
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    Blueshoe wrote: »
    People have a drink and leave. They don't hang around all day then stagger up the street making a show of themselves. Some are no better than the junkies wandering around Dublin off their nut

    God that’s so harsh.. you ok? Xoxo


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    #616
    Blueshoe
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    never_mind wrote: »
    God that’s so harsh.. you ok? Xoxo

    Snackbox please. Il be back in a minute. Going out to piss in an archway


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    #617
    mariaalice
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    The same with restaurants to a lesser extent? because if one country opens before the other it could lead to mass travel from one area to another and cause all kinds of issues.


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    #618
    Panthro
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    Would ya be that desperate for a pint
    Stay at home.
    Protect the NHS.
    Shave wives.


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    #619
    Thelonious Monk
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    Even if the booze was free I wouldn't go to a pub in the North


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    #620
    mariaalice
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Even if the booze was free I wouldn't go to a pub in the North

    You might not, but lots would and the same in reverse.


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    Slim Charles
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Even if the booze was free I wouldn't go to a pub in the North




    Do you subscribe to the defunct "the pints are flat over there" jabber from the early 90s.


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    #622
    Thelonious Monk
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    Slim Charles wrote: »
    Do you subscribe to the defunct "the pints are flat over there" jabber from the early 90s.

    No I just don't like the North. Yes that was a strange one, everyone used to go on about how beer was terrible in the UK, I always found a much bigger range and great beers over there.


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    #623
    Dr. Bre
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    Panthro wrote: »
    Would ya be that desperate for a pint
    Stay at home.
    Protect the NHS.
    Shave wives.

    Haha shave wives


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    Herb Powell
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    Banana Republic. wrote: »
    It’ll be very interesting to see which pubs open after all this in each town plus will the culture change around drinking and go towards socially spending time with friends instead of just going out to get hammered. I’ve realized it’s your friends that really you enjoy when you go out, mainly anyway, we all love the few pints but be interesting if there is any mood change. Strange experience for a while I tell ya that.

    Why not both?


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    #625
    da_miser
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    Monday heading to the barber shop, then to the Pub. Friday the restaurants open, looking forward to that, then later next week or early the week after, I'll be heading to the E.R., may even bypass that and go directly to the I.C.U.


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    #626
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,070 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    One of the pubs in Dublin is delivering pints and grub.


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    #627
    0gac3yjefb5sv7
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    Mister Vain wrote: »
    One of the pubs in Dublin is delivering pints and grub.

    Delivering pints? How would that work...


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    #628
    [Deleted User]
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    Harlee Purple Trance wrote: »
    Delivering pints? How would that work...

    There’s a few at it. I’ve seen one setup where they pull it outside your house from a setup in the back of a van.


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    #629
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,070 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Harlee Purple Trance wrote: »
    Delivering pints? How would that work...
    They put some sort of top on them to seal it.

    https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-dublin-pub-delivers-pints-and-sunday-roast-to-customers-during-lockdown-11978322


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    #630
    IAMAMORON
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    There’s a few at it. I’ve seen one setup where they pull it outside your house from a setup in the back of a van.
    Mister Vain wrote: »
    They put some sort of top on them to seal it.

    https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-dublin-pub-delivers-pints-and-sunday-roast-to-customers-during-lockdown-11978322

    Total gimmick, you might do it once for the craic or novelty of it. A lot easier to buy a slab of cans and throw them in the fridge.

    Drinkers don't go to the pub to just drink, they go to meet people, socialise and further their existence, to be at piece with the world, to hear the truth about Kim Jon Un. You don't get that with take-away pints, it won't catch on.

    I think there is scope for "pop-up" pubs out the back of a van in summer hotspots, a bit like an ice-cream van, except selling pints and hot whiskeys.


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    #631
    [Deleted User]
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    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Total gimmick, you might do it once for the craic or novelty of it. A lot easier to buy a slab of cans and throw them in the fridge.

    Drinkers don't go to the pub to just drink, they go to meet people, socialise and further their existence, to be at piece with the world, to hear the truth about Kim Jon Un. You don't get that with take-away pints, it won't catch on.

    I think there is scope for "pop-up" pubs out the back of a van in summer hotspots, a bit like an ice-cream van, except selling pints and hot whiskeys.

    There’s no other way of getting a decent pint of Guinness though so if there was one nearby I would partake.


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