Should people over 40 be banned from nightclubs?

No, but I think anyone born after the millennium should be banned from writing opinion pieces.

Try to persuade the bars and operators to turn down the customers with the most disposable income.

Yeah....well I don't want to go to your shite fast disappearing nightclubs anyway!

Just know the nightclubs now are a pale shadow of the drunken debauched free for all in my youth you young whelp..

We knew how to drink to the point where most of it ended up outside of us and you couldn't look your friends in the eye the next day

We knew how to have drunken half sex in public places!

We knew what real music sounded like (well most of the time....there was some utter unoriginal shite too)...but we weren't inundated with samples and rehashes of shite that wasn't that great the first time around peddled by algorithms and vacuous "celebrities"

We knew how to actually have a night out and not disappear up our own collective rectums every night and spend precious getting off your face time worrying that there might be uncool sad desperate lovers or over 40 cheating lotharios perving at our best friends sisters.....

We also wouldn't have dreamt of analysing our actions and thinking about things like problem binge drinking preferring instead to get the **** on with it and proceed to the next weekend.

I hope she is forced to read that when she turns 40, the cringe will devour her soul.

**** Gen Z.

OMG

golf !

It's ok. I get it. Kinda posted to wind you up. 😁 I'm terrible - trying to rattle cages.

A pointless discussion. There are basically no nightclubs left. When I was fighting off the nation's most beautiful women in the mid 1990s, there were 650 licenced across the land.

Now there are only 70. And many of those are more correctly described as Superpubs and mixed use venues.

And anytime I do go to a party or club night of any sort, the only ones I see dancing are the people in their 40s and 50s. The younger ones are buried in their phones and sneaking vodka they brought with them.

It's awful to see those forty something women at that carry on. But they are not very good at golf, so they need some outlet I suppose.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgPznBrjiA&t=60s

I feel like a 21 year old.

But there is never one around.

Just an old vaudeville joke from my twenties.

It's trash.

A young adult? What is she? 15?

Them 20’s year olds know what a nightclub is compared the 90’s. Are we going dancing tonight. You could be in a nightclub half the week. It’s just disco bars the last times I went out. No phones or just starting to come out and just the odd sms that cost 20p or something like that never mind a call. 80p a minute?

Drink promotion nights £1/2 a drink and none of this selfie crap and put it up on what social media that’s everyone is on this year to see how many likes they can get

WHat about the Millenials?

WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE MILLENIALS...??

**** your one in the Examiner. I'll see her ageism and raise her 40 year olds having the craic. And from experience over 40's are far less likely to start fighting and being dickheads in general.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/dance-ageing-adulthood-school-disco-generation-x-iranian-a9364866.html

I vaguely remember that thing about not making or taking phonecalls....such a waste of airtime

Those auld lads were a fixture in nightclubs when I was in my twenties. Me and my friends always gave them a wide berth and saw them as nothing more than pathetic letches who thought they still had it.

It kinda reminds me of how we'd try to get into The Hairy Lemon when we were 17. Wait for the bouncer to have a smoke and get chatting to someone in the queue and then dodge your way in the door. She's doing it wrong.

And not a mobile phone in sight to record any carry on.

God that is the stupidest article I've read in a mainstream Irish broadsheet.

The self importance. I can't fathom it.

That's very true she is being used but she might be aware and doesn't care after all she's getting the jump in to media ahead of everyone else.

Tbh I think you are too young at that age to fully understand the possible consequences or how your feelings might change as you get a bit more mature/intelligence develops a bit.....that jump could have a price she might not want to have to pay as an older adult

It is fairly inane forgettable moronic drivel though ...if you have a thick skin you'd probably not give it a second thought....although if you wanted to be regarded as a ...I don't know thinker/thought leader, respected commentator etc it might be a bit of an embarassment that's now permanently out there attributed to you.

I'm glad some of the diahorrea I might have written (possibly still do) as a much younger person hopefully won't be attributed to me now!