Should people over 40 be banned from nightclubs?

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.