Pubs and Clubs to get longer opening hours

Plenty of them nice innocent drunk drivers were on narcotics too.

Drugs stopped being just an urban thing a long time ago.

should have happened decades ago and even then it should be an abolition of opening and closing hours.

still, it's a start and hopefully a campaign for such abolition altogether will come in time.

The divide between the demonisation of one ( driving after having a few pints ) versus the acceptance of the other ( widespread narcotic use ) was my point

The people impacted most by the closure of rural pubs would not have belonged to the demographic queuing for the cubicle .

Lloyd's number 1, not all of them are late night, it's just spoons with music but a great place to predrink.

I'm in favour of the proposals but it is galling to listen to all the politicians trotting out the same "pubs are safe and controlled environments to drink in" line.

I don't understand why can't pubs, clubs, offys just open and close whenever they want.

I find young people much more mature these days and older people are mostly sensible anyway. Drinking culture has diminished a lot since the early noughties for myriad reasons.

Id also completely liberalize pub and club licenses so the barrier to entry was more equal.

So for example if a few young friends wanted to open a pub/club in some abandoned building, they could do so cheaply and easily. As long as it's safe and follows guidelines.

We'd have the most interesting nightlife in Europe overnight. Pubs and clubs popping up in warehouses or old markets or restaurants or butchers or gyms etc.

Lol if I'm a bartender in a nightclub I'm handing in my notice as soon as this comes into effect. I'd be willing to work those hours if I was in Ibiza or somewhere, but not here.

And outside of Dublin or other urban centres this won't take hold at all IMO. The bars in my town can't get staff as it is and they don't stay open past 1 am.

No 12:30 every night.

Some contradiction between introducing minimum pricing on booze and this -this governments a joke

It’s all very well leaving nightclubs open until 6 am but - what about the wider issues here:

bus and taxis at all hours of the morning to ferry revellers home?

policing at all hours of the morning?

effect on A and E? health services?

general basic safety on the streets?

dodgy types off their bin after 8 hours + of heavy drinking and drugging.

Looking for trouble

Ffs like.

ireland isn’t downtown Manhattan or Berlin or London

this is another key point

staffing - will bar staff want to work from say 9pm to 7 am (1 hour for the clean up after the punters go home)??

ffs like how popular would this be at 5 am on a dirty rainy night in November.

with chippers all closed up. No guards. no taxis or buses???

we are not exactly Ibiza type climate here.