Dread Pirate John Scab🚫4d ago
With the day that's in it should we all go out for pints to celebrate the end of the ban
yes
62.5%
no
0%
let's get locked
25%
do it in memory of Munster
12.5%
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Show threadDread Pirate John Scab🚫4d ago

Unfortunately by the time this poll ends it'll be too late.

Why didn't you remind me yesterday?

Show threadDread Pirate John Scab🚫4d ago

For any forriners - until 2018 pubs in Ireland would be closed on good Friday and the game was to find a pub opening illegally to get locked as a sign of rebellion against the man. I too was that soldier but can't be arsed going out today.

Rugby quarter finals were known to occur in Limerick on a good Friday and there would be a collective loosing of the minds west of the Shannon cause rugby fans couldn't buy a beer. To the extent that laws were amended.

Show threadCiarán Ferrie
@janwwbosch IIRC the other way around the ban was to go on a train journey - for some reason trains were exempt from the no alcohol rule on Good Friday and there were stories of people taking a return trip from Galway to Dublin just so they could have a drink.
Apr 3 at 9:07amWeb
Show threadDread Pirate John Scab🚫4d ago

@ccferrie correct. Blood donation was another route. I think there were seven on the list.

Was staying as a guest in a hotel also an option?

Show threadDread Pirate John Scab🚫4d ago
@ccferrie another weird outcome of the licensing laws was bona fide pubs a certain distance outside an urban area where pubs could serve later as given the distance drinkers were considered bona fide travellers.
Show threadDec [{()}]3d ago
@janwwbosch @ccferrie
There was also an airport drinking game: show up early with no luggage and get airside for the cheapest ryanair flight (booked months earlier, when it was dirt cheap). Start drinking in the airport bar. Don't go to your gate.
Bonus: do a shot every time your name is called over the PA.
Show threadColm Ó Donnchadha4d ago

@janwwbosch @ccferrie
Both drinking on trains and drinking after donating blood no longer allowed any time!

Also the ban was back in good Friday 2020...

Show threadDread Pirate John Scab🚫4d ago

@ColmDonoghue @ccferrie This changed in January 2018 when government decided, alcohol-wise, Good Friday should be like any other day. Good Friday sessions lost their allure once the Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Act 2018 was passed. The scarcity that held the tradition together was gone.

From https://www.ontheditch.com/good-friday-alcohol-ban/

Had to look it up as I don't really care that much

Removing the Good Friday alcohol ban was a mistake

Some of the best house parties of my college years were on Good Friday.

The Ditch
Show threadPirate Badshah4d ago

@janwwbosch @ColmDonoghue @ccferrie

Usually I've got a lot of time for the Ditch, but that edgelord take of "we were better off with religiously dictated sobriety" isn't a particularly edifying look for an otherwise stellar publication.