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"kenmc":8ftpppv7 wrote:

"TheBeerNut":8ftpppv7 wrote: And as long as no-one's drawing a salary from the place they can smoke their heads off too.[/quote:8ftpppv7]BOOOOOO![/quote:8ftpppv7]You'll have to raise your concern with the Ballynopub Social Club Sub-Committee on Facilities, tabling a motion under the relevant standing order.
*Lights up*

"Wobbler":8ftpppv7 wrote: In fairness, someone would have to be employed anyway. Bar staff and or cleaning staff.[/quote:8ftpppv7]Not necessarily, if people take turns behind the bar and clean up after themselves. If it's small and everyone knows everyone else, and everyone has a stake in the ownership, I think it can be done.

"sbillings":8ftpppv7 wrote: Probably sounds a bit to much like communism and then they wouldn't be able to whine and wring their hands about the decline of rural Ireland.[/quote:8ftpppv7]That, and the publicans would arrange for the licensing laws to be changed if they thought it presented any sort of threat.

"Poc":11ar3ikt wrote: I believe that there's a clause in there that says that you can't set up a club for the purposes of getting a club licence so you can have drinks in said club.

You have to have have a proper club engaged in whatever activity they're supposed to be about, be it yachting or athletics or Gah or whatever.

[/quote:11ar3ikt]Or brewing... <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

&amp;quot;sbillings&amp;quot;:3ud03r1b wrote: Actually, when you think about it, you could do a lot of good for a community with that club idea. As the profits are not going into anyone's pocket, they could use the money to improve the club, run functions, take members on subsidised trips, or undertake projects to benefit the community.

Not sure if Irish people would do it though. Probably sounds a bit to much like communism and then they wouldn't be able to whine and wring their hands about the decline of rural Ireland.[/quote:3ud03r1b]

But it is being done in the aforementioned soccer/rowing/GAA/yacht clubs etc.
I don't think TBN's utopian vision of everybody doing their bit would work though. You would have to employ a bar manager type figure, but that wage should pay for itself.

&amp;quot;Poc&amp;quot;:2nwcltqx wrote: the going rate for a pub licence is still between €165,000 and €180,000 and that it's essentially a tradeable commodity that you must buy if you want to open a pub.[/quote:2nwcltqx]

I agree, a pub manager would have to be employed to keep the whole thing ticking along.