Hic.
Previously: And So It Begins
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Tag Archives: Good Friday
This morning.
At the Boar’s Head pub on Capel Street, Dublin 1.
At 7.02am.
Publin.ie tweetz:
Very happy to get the first pint poured on Good Friday in 91 years in @boarsheaddublin which has an early license. Cheers!
Earlier: These Things Take Time
This morning.
The Boar’s Head, Capel Street, Dublin 1
Thanks Alan Bracken
Meanwhile…
History in our time.
Ted writes:
I’m going to have nightmares tonight after that chair scene *cringe*
Even still.
That is very quick, in fairness.
Lee at Publin.ie writes:
For the first time in 90 years pubs are allowed to open and serve alcohol in Ireland on Good Friday.
To celebrate, we’re going to host Dublin’s first ever Good Friday pub crawl. Through the prism of the pub we’ll explore Irish culture and history.
We’ll also give you a history of the Good Friday prohibition and then toast to it’s removal.
On the night we’ll visit 4 pubs, each with a different story to tell. Publin crawls aren’t just about the drinking; we’ll try to show you a side of pubs that you haven’t seen or considered before. Before each location we give you a short history of the pub and a few tidbits of stories that should be news even to the most well informed pub goer.
We’ll be starting the night at 6.30pm at a location that we’ll let you know the day before. You will be guided around by John and Luigsech for 4 hours of drinks, pub chats, and a real Dublin experience.
The first ever Good Friday pub crawl (Publin.ie).
Earlier: He Died For Your Gins
Outside the Temple Bar, Dublin 2 last Good Friday
Carlsberg (and other beers) don’t do breaking news… but if they did… #GoodFriday #BleedinDeadlyFriday pic.twitter.com/Cxx3D7DVMO
— Nobby (@NobbyFM104) January 25, 2018
Hic
On the potential removal of the Good Friday alcohol sales ban….
Barbara McCarthy writes:
Is there nothing sacred? Now they want to take away our favourite booze ban. Some of us enjoyed buying in bulk on holy Thursday and getting rip-roaringly drunk on Good Friday afternoon listening to tunes in some garden somewhere.
I think it would be infinitely more pressing and beneficial to lift the nanny state 10pm curfew of booze, which has us all charging to Indian eateries like gnus buying €30 bottles of the worst wine known to humanity.
“We can’t have the Catholic Church controlling everything in this country. We need a secular state.,” blablablabla says the millennial drone.
No we don’t. Just get back to your kale crisps and self indulgent narcissism you dweeb. We need the Catholic Church in order to be Irish – without it we might as well be Danish or Dutch and why would we want to do that?
Has anyone noticed how humourless Irish people have become since the church doesn’t have power over us anymore and we have nothing to rebel against? That plus social media means RIP to our particular brand of wit.
So I’m saying NO to lifting the booze ban. It doesn’t even have anything to do with the church. I like the olden days more than today, so I’d like to hang onto one tradition at least you fumbling fools and I’m not even Catholic.
FIGHT!
Hic.
. @FineGael Senator Joe O’Reilly -Closing pubs on Good Friday is part of our national identity & distinctly an Irish thing’ @rtenews pic.twitter.com/dBtFqUU9BZ
— Conor McMorrow (@ConorMcMorrow) April 12, 2017
This morning.
In the Seanad.
Fine Gael Senator Joe O’Reilly outlines why he’s against the opening of licensed premises on Good Friday.
Via Conor McMorrow
How bad is Good Friday?
Kevin Flanagan writes:
Libertarian Ireland & Students For Liberty Ireland hit the streets of Dublin to ask what people think about the Good Friday Drinking Ban.
Considering that Holy Thursday is one of the busiest days for off-licences and butchers, is the Good Friday drinking ban just seen as a “challenge” and excuse to break the law?
What do you think? Join the discussion and have your say using #bintheban
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The Hudson Bar, Belfast.
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