Pubs and Clubs to get longer opening hours

The 1 in a million occurance, I'm in my late 30s and I've never been refused service and there's times I absolutely should have been nor seen anyone else refused service unless they had started a fight, were particularly aggressive or literally falling over drunk. I spent 3 months in Australia in my early 20s I was refused service several times well before I'd have been considered close to drunk by Irish pub standards and saw it happen more times than I can count.

Irish publicans do not care how much they serve as long as it doesn't affect them. Australian publicans are held accountable by law for what happens if they over serve customers, the two are not the same.

Ohh I don't think it's done right at all and the most memorable incident for me in Oz was being refused after 3 pints as well. I'm simply arguing against the idea that Irish publicans are in any way responsible service providers. Especially when the LVF and VFI have previously claimed drinking in pubs is safer than drinking at home as an argument for MUP as you are being served by trained professionals in a controlled enviornment.....

I often think of the publicans advice and smile when I'm sitting at home enjoying a can of beer and a small whiskey before dinner.

Total cost to me even after MUP €3.

In the local €10.

I feel safe and better off.

What happened to this bill? Is it ever going to happen?

Safe as houses actually 🙂

I was just pointing out the ridiculousness of the publicans making out we were safer in a pub than at home.

I don't really hate publicans but I wish they had kept their noses out of my business.

They lobbied to make home drinking more expensive so we would go to the pub.

The medical establishment hates alcohol more than the church does, because doctors are ggw ones sho know what damage alcohol does.

Yes, they do, just not as often as they should.

There's also the "oh no it's closing time, let's get three pints and a couple of shots in" thing, so person might be OK when getting served but in bits with the alcohol in their stomach when they're leaving. Putting an end to silly closing time removes the incentive to lorry down drink in a hurry at the end of the night.

Can't be forgiven for that.

I think the later opening part of the liberalisation of drinking laws will die a death between now and the next election.

On paper it seemed a great idea but the practicalities of it are now hitting the industry. At the and of the day the punter has only so much to spend. Later opening is not going to grow the market it going to add cost to the majority of businesses that are involved in the trade.

If you close at 2am you will lose business, but staying open costs. Later opening over weekends has not added business to most pubs, it reduced the club scene as a significant cohort of pubs muscled into the club scene. Why pay 10 euro into a club when you could drink away in the pub.

There is an appetite for allowing pubs to be set up without having to buy a licence and for resturants and cafe to have access to full licenced premises. Even maybe for you to be allowed to buy a beer with you Supermac's or your dinner in supermarket. But the option of unrestricted opening is dying a death.

If a venue doesn't want to stay open later it doesn't have to. Which part of that are certain posters just not getting.

Let the venue decide when they want to close, instead of having the law dictate to them when they must close.

Bus Connects has already brought a few 24h bus routes and is due to bring in many more.

Luas should run 24h. If they need a window for maintenance then do that in the first half of the week but run it 24h Thu-Sun at least.

also as these jobs are seen as disposable there wont be night rates, it will be extra hours X Min wage is all a lot will get with no opt out

The “Give us back the night” crowd …

Chancers, Ted, Chancers as far as the eye can see …

Theatre licence will allow them to stay open and serve past 2.30, something mainly taken advantage of in Dublin with the likes of the viper rooms, on the keys and pal joeys in temple bar. You wouldn't be out the door until 4am then onto a pub in Abbey Street that a mate worked in that had all night lock ins, then home around 9am.

Moved to Galway in 2008 and place was dead compared to Dublin.

Clubs being open past 2 used to be mainly in Dublin, most of the rest of the country they stopped serving at 1.30.

When the current operating hours were brought in during the late 90s most people I know not being into dance/chart music just stayed in the pub and skipped the clubs.