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The food thing afaik was originally brought in to stop drunk people congregating outside fastfood places and beating sevens shades out of each other ala Super Macs in Eyre Square.
I remember being in a nightclub in Galway years ago and about 1 o'clock the music stopped, the lights came on and the kitchen opened. Once everybody had their plate of gruel the deeshco resumed.

I was at the Paulaner thing in the IFSC last year and thought it was great for what it was. We were there before the Ireland match so there earlier enough. It was a nice alternative to the usual Heineken session before matches.

I'm a fan of the "needing a substantial meal" clause written into Irish law.

There's loads of insane and nonsensical laws around the world regarding the sale and consumption of a few beers. I know in Canada that I would've been breaking the law if I'd carried the beer I'd been drinking at the restaurant bar, while waiting on a free table, from the bar to the table instead of having the waiter carry it there for me on a tray.

And we need to beat those damm Canadians on how wacky our alcohol laws are at the very least.

"Poc":3tjsfkb8 wrote: And we need to beat those damm Canadians on how wacky our alcohol laws are at the very least.[/quote:3tjsfkb8]Ha! We've a long way to go:

"TheBeerNut":3tjsfkb8 wrote: in Nova Scotia you may not export your homebrew outside of your own home, nor may you invite anyone else in to help you make or drink it; in Manitoba you can drive around with commercial beer anywhere in your car, but homebrew has to go in the boot. Drinking beer is also illegal in all Manitoban bathrooms, public or domestic (you have been warned), while in British Columbia all beer, quite possibly including homebrew, is perpetually government property.[/quote:3tjsfkb8]Link[/url:3tjsfkb8]

Though no new licences since 1902 is up there on the International Scale of Legislative Wackiness.

"TheBeerNut":338qygdi wrote: Though no new licences since 1902 is up there on the International Scale of Legislative Wackiness.[/quote:338qygdi]

Well that just plain not true, only this year the good deputies in Dail Eireann spent a good chunk of time and effort, debating, drafting and passing legislation to create a new license for the new National Conference Centre.

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Surely, it's be only the most cynical among us that would opine that the creation of a single drinks license is anything other than an excellent use of our parliament's time and resources.

Yeah yeah yeah. And there was one for the National Concert Hall in 1983. I'll just go and disbar myself quietly, shall I?

&amp;quot;Poc&amp;quot;:v6axixsl wrote: There's loads of insane and nonsensical laws around the world regarding the sale and consumption of a few beers. [/quote:v6axixsl]

You can't have two drinks at the same time in Vermont. If you want to have a shot/short with your pint, they take your beer away and hold it until you've had your whiskey.