Lord Mayor Christy Burke and Roz Purcell in Fire at the Mansion House, Dawson Street
Need somewhere to go on Good Friday?
That doesn’t involve the stations of the cross?
Read on
Sinead writes:
FIRE Restaurant and Lounge on Dublin’s Dawson Street will open and welcome guests this Good Friday, 3rd April. While operating in full compliance with the licensing laws, the award winning FIRE’s decision to open dramatically improves the options for tourists and locals this Good Friday as one of the very few restaurants open in the city.
Open in the lounge from midday, and in the restaurant from 1pm ‘til late, FIRE has created a special menu of non-alcoholic cocktails…as required by law, all beer taps and alcohol must be covered…more details here
Alternative Good Friday suggestions (where even hooch may be available) welcome below.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Christy Burke. I remember when he used to be radical. Now he’s as stuck-up as they become.
he looks really old – i suppose that’s what years of singing ‘lady in red’ does to you.
Is that the nanny he’s with?
She looks possessed.
And I don’t mean of a fine head of hair.
He never really got over the whole Garth Brooks thing.
Well he just spoke out in praise of the grangegorman squat lads, which is radical by the establishments standards
Sporting events on Good Friday are allowed to serve alcohol, so League Of Ireland games may be your friend if you’re such a desperate old soak that you can’t go 24 hours without a drink.
Drink is not the issue here – it is the opening up of a restaurant to cater for people who want to go out on a Friday evening. Tourists especially. Why should businesses stop because of draconian laws? I hope Fire think about opening up on Dec 25th also – by jaysus it’s needed.
And yet in another way, it is about drink. Why on earth shouldn’t I be able to buy a drink on Good Friday? I’m not even a Catholic, and even if I were, what business is it of the government to enforce religious doctrine? (Actually, is it even RC doctrine?). I drink so little I could almost (almost!) join the Pioneers. And yet every Good Friday I get a raging thirst for the strongest martini possible, just on principle :-)
true, its another example of the Catholic church at the heart of the so called republic along with the bloody Angelus on rté,priests running schools& hospitals etc etc …
Yeah
It rightly pisses me off too
Telling a publican / small business that they can’t ply their trade ’cause Diarmuid Martin says so
GTF
No other trade / profession would have it
That’s how it starts ;)
Is booze served at LOI games generally? I doubt it.
Shels and Bohs each have a bar, i doubt either will be open next friday.
They can’t serve alcohol.
24hours?!?!? In a row?!?!?
Whats all this now/!?!
If all the bars got together and opened their doors and sold booze there would be no consequences, they should just bite the bullet and open, the police hardly care
you’d think that, yet you’ll never see so many Police on the streets of Dublin as you will at 11.55pm on Holy Thursday. Got hauled out of Cassidys with everyone else in the bar by two Garda in full bullet vests two years ago, complete with smart arse remarks and slagging from the pair of them… they were loving it!
Bullet vests?
Then they had a lock in
FFS. What a stupid country this is.
What do you expect from a pig?
It’ll be a late one in Doyle’s, no doubt.
Non alcoholic beer for the men, fruit based non alcoholic cocktails for the ladies.
And there’ll always be one stag/hen party flying in on Good Friday just to stay a night or two. BOOM! Catholicised.
Some enterprising person should set up free shuttle buses to Newry for all the stranded tourists.
Yeah but then they’d be in Newry and no one wants that
Not very enterprising if the bus is free.
If you’re operating the booze warehouse it’s not too bad an idea.
every bloody year we have this conversation about good friday. anyway, use the opportunity to stock up on cheap gargle cos by this time next year, the night in will cost a jaysus fortune.
Because responsible drinking?
Jaysus Mick, this responsible drinking craic is fierce dear.
*hic*
Roz Percell looks terrifying at all in that photo. Its as if she is about to rip his head off and feast on the goo inside.
We can but hope.
I’ve spent about ten minutes staring at her trying to decide if she’s hot or not. Probably be better off staring at the Blue Ball machine.
+1 stepford wife
She may starve….even more than normal I mean.
hunt and gather’s heathen party. gonna be a byob blast!
there’s plenty of BYOB restaurants in the city.
panic over.
If Broadsheet hadn’t made it clear that it was a human being accompanying Christy I would have sworn it was a mannequin.
she looks like an owl
The owl wan.