Should people over 40 be banned from nightclubs?

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511849#Comment_122511849

The Nightclubs are slowly disappearing anyway..... without gen z wanting you booted out!

Hard for them to make sense financially the way things are going...

Tbh it's the same with a lot of bricks&mortar businesses in towns/cities

BalcombeSt4

No, I personally don't go to raves or clubs anymore, the last time was a decade ago, I'm in my late 30's now, but when I was going out between 18 - 27/28 most of the DJ's headlining events, especially James Devlin's "Devotion" & Senan Shortt's "Energizer" promotions were usually all over 40, people like Mr. Spring, Mark Kavanagh, Warren K, Ed Case, Pressure, UFO, Thyme etc… they have the experience of running different clubs & know what works best better than people in their 20s.

hamburgham

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511191#Comment_122511191

Where?

Dick phelan

Journalist really is a dying profession. Imagine paying for university and writing that absolute shite.

banie01

Hold up...

Some 20yo Zoomer who is precluded from over 21 premises,which most nightclubs are! is complaining that Gen X'ers are too old for night clubs🤨

How the fúck can a Zoomer afford to go to a nightclub? If she isn't a trust fund baby or a sugar baby, who's buying her Smirnoff ice then?

dasdog

There were a few hippy types in the 90's well in to their 40's that used to frequent the decent nightclubs in Dublin. Not only were they welcome, they were celebrated and some would be as off their chops as the rest of us at 3am. Free spirit types.

I haven't been to a nightclub in years - I hate the controlled environment after being to raves where there are no bouncers/security/tickets/formal organisation - but I still go to lots of music events and you see all ages from all walks of life which is absolutely brilliant.

Judgemental people are always going to be judgemental.

ledwithhedwith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511600#Comment_122511600

jaysis

taxAHcruel

can anyone do the footsie anymore anyway? :)

Mister Baddog

Oh god yes they should be banned. (I'm 65 and know whereof I speak 😇)

laoismanj

Personally at 35 and a father of 3, the idea of a music festival or a nightclub is what I imagine the gates of hell to be, however when i was 18-21..did I give a fawk if there was over 40s in the noise chambers I was in? Nope! Did we judge them? Nope, I was too shitfaced to care, we all grow up, those who dont...well its a tragic sight

paddyisreal

No nightclubs in town anymore, some lad on a beat box singing wonderwall in already bar. Pure shite. Dublin was savage in the 90s Ormond, Olympia, Colombia mills, asylum full of people of different ages top class stuff.. Sad to see what it is now.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511600#Comment_122511600

She's THAT one??

The one that told pat no-one over 25 should use emojis??

Well F**K her. I was using emojis before she was born and will continue to do so.

She she doesn't like it she can suck my

rowantree18

Yes they should be banned.

As long as the fade-haircut, black tracksuit, tango-tan, fake nail/lashes/brows/lips millennials are banned from the ACDC concert.

My music, so they can feck off

riddles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511210#Comment_122511210

yes and hoovering up unused tickets to gobble the scandalous mandatory dinner 😂

Galwayguy35

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058364703/should-people-over-40-be-banned-from-nightclubs

You should be banned for using the word Boomer.

Lewis_Benson

I don't frequent night clubs in my early 40s, actually stopped going to them in my 20s, desolate places full of desperate lads out to blow their load after 3 Heinikens.

I'd say the young wan who wrote that article has never frequented a bar anyway, let alone a club. The current generation are a bunch off ass wipes, wouldn't know what to do with themselves in a social situation which didn't involve their phones.

AyeGer

I wouldn’t mind going to a night club event that was held for older groups once in a blue moon but no way I’d want to be in a nightclub full of people half my age.

It’s been about 15 years since I was in a nightclub I wouldn’t even know what type of music was played. Is it rap, dance, or something else?

AyeGer

Funnily enough the girl who wrote that article would have been invisible to me in a night club 15 or 20 years ago.

whisky_galore

More of the same gatekeeping, being offended by what other people do. Sub par leaving cert English essay.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/people/arid-41455819.html

Montage of Feck

Are ye getting offended by AI articles again?

Lgt

If she is uncomfortable, she should leave. You can go dancing at any age.

Jim2007

Well since she is OK with age discrimination, I guess she is all for gender discrimination as well…

Well the paper gets it's click bait and she get an embarrassing article that will follow her around for life….

And you can absolutely guarantee it will appear on any backgrund check ordered by a future employer.

nice bit of green

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511946#Comment_122511946

dnb classics in London. We try and get over once a year.

thehairygrape

I know this article is just click bait, and by commenting I’m buying in to it, but here goes anyway.

When I was 20, not only was gay marriage illegal: being gay was illegal. Illegal! Condoms were illegal. Divorce was illegal. Married women were not allowed work in the public service. Corporal punishment was allowed and encouraged in schools. Abortion was illegal. The Catholic Church controlled the government, the Press, schools and hospitals.
What changed? Young people going out and protesting and simply deciding enough was enough (being part of the EU greatly helped). Young women not accepting the status quo. Sit-ins. Strikes. Squatting. The Cork Examiner (as was) was a cheer leader for the status quo. No young person would have been caught dead writing for them. Wouldn’t have been allowed anyway.

It’s quite sad to see a young 20 year old write such and ageist, discriminatory, reactionary piece for the Examiner. The Examiner!
I’ve never liked nightclubs. But if someone wants to go to one good luck to them. 20, 30, 40, 90, who cares?
If the writer doesn’t like it, don’t go. Go out and protest against climate change, or the scandalous cost of rent and housing, or the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and everywhere else. Or the fact that we’ve developed a financial system that moves public wealth and services in to private hands. Now that’s something you can blame my generation for.

But nightclubs? For the Examiner? No. Just no.

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513054#Comment_122513054

Sadly the days of the radical student are over it seems. Bought out by commercialism and the rise of self interest. Seeing some of them mobilising on anti-fascist protests, which is great to see, but we are indeed a long way from the days we both remember. The likes of Joe Duffy RTE was once a very vocal student activist, little did we know that the way he sold out once he got inside the gates was going to be the future, generally in student politics. So many of them (that era's radicals) did the same. In many ways this young lady and her attitude is as a result of the above.

Akrasia

20 years ago this year, 21 year old Akrasia was getting water cannoned outside the gates of the Phoenix park as part of an anti globalisation protest,

2004 Dublin May Day protests - Wikipedia

This young lady has chosen to protest against having to be near 40 year olds in night clubs

What a tale she will have to pass on to her children

mariaalice

Be interesting to know if she is aware she is being used and doesn't care? After all the free tickets to gigs and festivals and advertised secret midnight gigs are handy and a bit of controversy never did a journalist/media/writers career any harm.

Or

Is she completely unaware what's happening.

thehairygrape

In her own cack-handed way she was trying to (badly) make a point about age discrimination. By advocating age discrimination. If she wants to make her point, them advocate and agitate for change. She’ll find a lot of older people supporting her. But by taking the path she’s taken, all sympathy is lost.
It would have been very easy to ignore the article or treat it like a joke, but it’s challenging such views is how the social change in Ireland happened. Watching the US in particular regress as it’s doing makes it all the more important to continue the fight.

Rothko

OP is a big fan or ageism.

Only an oddball would try so desperately to tell others how they should live their lives.

pgj2015

Maybe over 40s should wear a star so we know who they are. And court case to follow if they get caught in a nightclub.

its funny the way she is 20 but talks about her being 18 as if it was 20 years ago.

she needs a night on mushrooms or MDMA, then she would see how stupid her article is.

thehairygrape

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513448#Comment_122513448

That’s very bold😄. Afraid the reference would be lost on the younger audience.

BrianD3

Has she never heard of the Equal Status Act. Whether the piece is supposed to be light hearted or not, what other groups covered by the Act would she, facilitated by The Examiner, like to mock or propose banning from niteclubs. Black people? Travellers? Homosexuals?

In the unlikely event that this clown is ever involved in recruiting and hiring anyone and if they feel they have been discriminated against on the basis of age - field day.

PokeHerKing

Ageism is the last remaining acceptable discrimination.

Cheaper fees in my golf club the younger you are. Imagine doing that based on any other demographic.

Can't remember the last time I was in coppers and I'm 39. I remember the last time I was in palace in its older guise. I realised the gig was up when everyone was wearing runners 😂

I wouldn't stop doing anything but I definitely need more luxury the older I get. A camper van for EP etc. I enjoy the money middle age affords me.

endacl

I’ve banned myself from nightclubs since I was a teenager, and saw just how sh1t they are. 50 now, and I’ve been a grumpy old curmudgeon for over 60% of my life.

Galwayguy35

Thought the lockdown killed off most of the nightclubs.

Some seem to be re opening again but for most people over 25 I'd imagine late bars are where its at these days.

Nermal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513054#Comment_122513054

Those things changed because student radicals took over the levers of power, not because the people in charge of those levers were afraid of student radicals.

endacl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058364703/should-people-over-40-be-banned-from-nightclubs

Hold on. Isn’t that they young wan who wrote an article a while back about being afraid to use the phone? Who couldn’t even answer to a friend unless there was a warning text first to advise there was a call incoming? We’re supposed to take her opinion seriously? Feck that. I might have to go to some godawful nightclub out of spite! 😂

techdiver

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058364703/should-people-over-40-be-banned-from-nightclubs

I'm 43 and this just reminded me that I must go to a nightclub tonight.

thehairygrape

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513534#Comment_122513534

Interesting point. But things still changed, socially at least. I’d hate to see us going backwards.

yagan

I can't help feel that the Examiner is grooming her as rage bait. It's very exploitive.

BTW, the last time I was at the EP I was in my thirties and there were a good contingent of much older folks which added to the chilled vibe.

There's no way I'd camp now but we're planning on getting a campervan in the coming years and I'd definitely be on for something the EP and other festivals around the EU.

thehairygrape

can't help feel that the Examiner is grooming her as rage bait. It's very exploitive

Think you’re right. But it’s a rock and a hard place. I know I shouldn’t react to it but by letting it go you’re almost condoning it. So you give them exactly what they want. Free clicks.

Luna84

Over 40 or 40 and above? 🤣 You don't make it clear. I'm 40 on the dot but I haven't been to a night club in a few years so that ugly young woman who wrote the article has nothing to worry about seeing me in a night club.

Pauliedragon

There's a facebook page called "raved in the 90's" This clown should look at it and see the videos of people in their 20's 30's 40's 50's 60's who were all able to enjoy a night out mixing together. Now we have the current crew her age who think every man over 40 is a sexual predator and if he smiles at her the Gards are called to have this deviant arrested.

Ezeoul

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058364703/should-people-over-40-be-banned-from-nightclubs

20 year old needs a lesson in ageism.

Whomever in the Irish Examiner that approved this person's "pieces" for publication needs a kick in the arse (and also a lesson in ageism).

nullzero

Just another Irish journalist stealing a living writing any garbage that might possibly spark some sort of controversy.

"Old people are like, so old" said every generation in history.

I genuinely feel human beings are getting dumber by the minute.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513723#Comment_122513723

I doubt anyone in her age bracket actually reads the examiner. I know when I was at that age I was too busy out socialising, which included going to lots of live music attended by people of all ages. Nightclubs obviously tended to have a younger cohort, but pubs weren't certainly not age segregated.

It really is pitiful publishing.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513754#Comment_122513754

I think it's more than that. I don't think it's the writer stealing the living, but the publisher exploiting a naive person as a conduit to profit from the type of divisive clickbait that defines unregulated social media.

It's a black card for the examiner.

Edit to add that considering they are now part of the same group as the Irish Times they'd have learned from the fake tan cultural appropriation ragebait incident.

Bobson Dugnutt

A light-hearted article written by a young woman seems to be getting under the skin of some men. Probably the sort that think Michael O’Leary would be a great Taoiseach; that Ian O’Doherty talks a lot of sense, that Kevin Myers was badly treated, and that any music released since 1998 is terrible.

Ezeoul

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122512916#Comment_122512916

And you can absolutely guarantee it will appear on any backgrund check ordered by a future employer.

Good point.

She probably thinks she is being witty and edgy. I blame the parents.

thehairygrape

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513861#Comment_122513861

if it was written by a young man I’d have the same reaction. I think Michael O’Leary would make an awful Taoiseach. No idea who O’Doherty is. Haven’t heard of Myers for years and good riddance. Love lots of new music. The latest Daniel O’Donnell release was a belter.
The old light hearted trope has been used by men for eons to harass women. “Get ‘em out love, sure it’s just light-hearted banter”.

No, that article needs challenging.