This is one of those areas that shows just how little our governments scope for change is. So many years this has been shot down. It would be so low effort and really improve the social life of many young people. We are so conservative and way out of line compared to both the US and UK/Europe on this.
Fascinating how there was absolutely no delay in passing the minimum pricing, smooth sailing from flying the kite to it being law, but multiple taoisigh have lied to us and not allowed pubs and clubs the **option** of opening later for like a decade now.
For a country that’s got a reputation for being such good craic, there are times I wonder.
Is there really a call for 6am closing, from anyone other than publicans/vinters?
embarrassing, so slow to do anything that may make the place more enjoyable.
Do people want to work until 6am (more likely 8am) in nightclubs?
Do people these days really want to stay out that late ? And I don’t mean tick the boxes in surveys while falling asleep in front of TV at 10pm, but actually stay out late buying drinks at 5.30am etc.
I will be dead and buried by this shit passes and we are on par with our EU colleagues.
And you wonder why I’ve loads of close mates who’ve moved Amsterdam, Berlin, Australia, Valencia
I love this country but fuck me it doesn’t want me to stay here
It would mess up a lot of livers and sleep patterns. Not that people shouldn’t have the option, but there is some benefit to being told to feck off home at 2am or 3am. Could be good for techno nights but the gov don’t give a shit about that.
It’s too expensive to do and the government just dont want to be buzzkills.
Remind me again why tej government’s regulating when a private business can open
The amount of stuff this would open up really can’t be understated.
If pubs and clubs can stay open, the variety and magnitude of acts can be expanded on an increased massively. Raves, major DJ’s, amateur bands, there’s a lot of stuff that time critical nature of a 4-6 hour night out really stands in the way of.
Then you have things like weddings, if you’re paying 20k plus it’d be great if the fucking bar stayed open while everyone is having a great time. Eventually people will learn to stop downing shots at 1:30 to get blitzed before closing.
Then you have other industries like take aways, taxi’s, and public transport, that can essentially double their peak operating hours.
It would be great for the economy.
A business should be allowed to dictate what their working hours are, given some of the outragious stuff they can do and get away with, the fact something so simple isn’t up to them is baffling.
That’s funny. Anywhere after midnight you’ll see young people looking and waiting for a place to go. Not just Dublin and Cork.
Taoiseach fails to commit to…. *insert literally anything
I remember when our Taoiseach said he would look after the people who “got up early in the morning”.
It was more hot air and off he went into the sunset.
“The “whole picture in the round” must be considered, he said, stating that it is not solely about the opening hour of a nightclub.
“It’s actually about how do people get home safely after they have left the nightclub, what time do the buses run to, what’s the taxi service like? What’s the police presence like? So when I know Jim O’Callaghan will weigh all this up,” he said. ”
Some of us can fucking walk home.
This utter paternalistic tripe when they can barely get people home from gigs in the Phoenix Park or fucking Malahide. So let’s cancel them so.
They will use any excuse to backtrack on the promises they made around this shit several years ago.
Basically he’s saying that we’ve a shortage of gards, and that we can’t even police the day, let alone the night.
Feck sake you can’t even get a taxi at 1am at the weekends in rural towns what hope have ya of getting one at 6am going out is a waste of time nowadays.
*Taoiseach fails… * they could have just left it at that.
This is the most obvious piece of legislation to ever pass. Good for the economy and small business, costs literally nothing and makes people happy.
It was Leo “Minister for good News” Varadkar who floated this if I remember correctly.
We’re hardly going to get it under Taoiseach Buzzkill
But that does have an impact as it will impact shifts and the amount of resources to manage it over a longer period.
If taking back the night is more important, then the obvious solution would be to campaign for longer hours with ways to reduce continued alcohol consumption which is the issue here.
If the excuse is that there has to be public transport for when the nightclubs close, can we get that right now, please? It’s silliness that a Luas can’t be gotten after 1 AM on a Friday or Saturday.
Shoulda happened 20 years ago anyways. Nite life has already died a death since then. Country is shite for a night out now.
Mandatory closing times are a shit feature in general.
Believe this coming in when I see it. How many different Governments have paid it lip service at this stage now?
Even if it eventually does come to pass. How much do you think a pint is going to cost at 4am in Dublin city at this stage to ‘justify’ the costs of later opening times? As much as they think they’ll be able to get away with I’m sure.
15 euro…20 euro? Well I won’t drink if that’s the case then some would say. Well chicken and egg. Nobody drinks and publicans will see no need to stay open and trust me they won’t stay open simply because they can and you want them to
Im not advocating against it. It would be great if it came in and worked. I’d just be highly skeptikal. Maybe it would have worked 20 years ago, but to be perfectly honest, this country is just fucked.
The average person has nearly been priced out of going out as it is, if this comes to pass stick the added costs that will be thrown back at the punter on top. Staff costs after certain times of night, the inevitable accompanying Government imposed late license fees etc and it will take the air out of this soon after it begins.
I would expect it would be a lot of fuss at the start, multiple clubs start opening later, following that though, them all falling away and reverting to older opening hours one by one in pretty short order as one of two scenarios unfold a) the realise it’s not worth their while financially or b) they make it worth their while financially and the punters fall away because they can’t afford it.
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This is one of those areas that shows just how little our governments scope for change is. So many years this has been shot down. It would be so low effort and really improve the social life of many young people. We are so conservative and way out of line compared to both the US and UK/Europe on this.
Fascinating how there was absolutely no delay in passing the minimum pricing, smooth sailing from flying the kite to it being law, but multiple taoisigh have lied to us and not allowed pubs and clubs the **option** of opening later for like a decade now.
For a country that’s got a reputation for being such good craic, there are times I wonder.
Is there really a call for 6am closing, from anyone other than publicans/vinters?
embarrassing, so slow to do anything that may make the place more enjoyable.
Do people want to work until 6am (more likely 8am) in nightclubs?
Do people these days really want to stay out that late ? And I don’t mean tick the boxes in surveys while falling asleep in front of TV at 10pm, but actually stay out late buying drinks at 5.30am etc.
I will be dead and buried by this shit passes and we are on par with our EU colleagues.
And you wonder why I’ve loads of close mates who’ve moved Amsterdam, Berlin, Australia, Valencia
I love this country but fuck me it doesn’t want me to stay here
It would mess up a lot of livers and sleep patterns. Not that people shouldn’t have the option, but there is some benefit to being told to feck off home at 2am or 3am. Could be good for techno nights but the gov don’t give a shit about that.
It’s too expensive to do and the government just dont want to be buzzkills.
Remind me again why tej government’s regulating when a private business can open
The amount of stuff this would open up really can’t be understated.
If pubs and clubs can stay open, the variety and magnitude of acts can be expanded on an increased massively. Raves, major DJ’s, amateur bands, there’s a lot of stuff that time critical nature of a 4-6 hour night out really stands in the way of.
Then you have things like weddings, if you’re paying 20k plus it’d be great if the fucking bar stayed open while everyone is having a great time. Eventually people will learn to stop downing shots at 1:30 to get blitzed before closing.
Then you have other industries like take aways, taxi’s, and public transport, that can essentially double their peak operating hours.
It would be great for the economy.
A business should be allowed to dictate what their working hours are, given some of the outragious stuff they can do and get away with, the fact something so simple isn’t up to them is baffling.
That’s funny. Anywhere after midnight you’ll see young people looking and waiting for a place to go. Not just Dublin and Cork.
Taoiseach fails to commit to…. *insert literally anything
I remember when our Taoiseach said he would look after the people who “got up early in the morning”.
It was more hot air and off he went into the sunset.
“The “whole picture in the round” must be considered, he said, stating that it is not solely about the opening hour of a nightclub.
“It’s actually about how do people get home safely after they have left the nightclub, what time do the buses run to, what’s the taxi service like? What’s the police presence like? So when I know Jim O’Callaghan will weigh all this up,” he said. ”
Some of us can fucking walk home.
This utter paternalistic tripe when they can barely get people home from gigs in the Phoenix Park or fucking Malahide. So let’s cancel them so.
They will use any excuse to backtrack on the promises they made around this shit several years ago.
Basically he’s saying that we’ve a shortage of gards, and that we can’t even police the day, let alone the night.
Feck sake you can’t even get a taxi at 1am at the weekends in rural towns what hope have ya of getting one at 6am going out is a waste of time nowadays.
*Taoiseach fails… * they could have just left it at that.
This is the most obvious piece of legislation to ever pass. Good for the economy and small business, costs literally nothing and makes people happy.
It was Leo “Minister for good News” Varadkar who floated this if I remember correctly.
We’re hardly going to get it under Taoiseach Buzzkill
But that does have an impact as it will impact shifts and the amount of resources to manage it over a longer period.
If taking back the night is more important, then the obvious solution would be to campaign for longer hours with ways to reduce continued alcohol consumption which is the issue here.
If the excuse is that there has to be public transport for when the nightclubs close, can we get that right now, please? It’s silliness that a Luas can’t be gotten after 1 AM on a Friday or Saturday.
Shoulda happened 20 years ago anyways. Nite life has already died a death since then. Country is shite for a night out now.
Mandatory closing times are a shit feature in general.
Believe this coming in when I see it. How many different Governments have paid it lip service at this stage now?
Even if it eventually does come to pass. How much do you think a pint is going to cost at 4am in Dublin city at this stage to ‘justify’ the costs of later opening times? As much as they think they’ll be able to get away with I’m sure.
15 euro…20 euro? Well I won’t drink if that’s the case then some would say. Well chicken and egg. Nobody drinks and publicans will see no need to stay open and trust me they won’t stay open simply because they can and you want them to
Im not advocating against it. It would be great if it came in and worked. I’d just be highly skeptikal. Maybe it would have worked 20 years ago, but to be perfectly honest, this country is just fucked.
The average person has nearly been priced out of going out as it is, if this comes to pass stick the added costs that will be thrown back at the punter on top. Staff costs after certain times of night, the inevitable accompanying Government imposed late license fees etc and it will take the air out of this soon after it begins.
I would expect it would be a lot of fuss at the start, multiple clubs start opening later, following that though, them all falling away and reverting to older opening hours one by one in pretty short order as one of two scenarios unfold a) the realise it’s not worth their while financially or b) they make it worth their while financially and the punters fall away because they can’t afford it.
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