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"Dunkel":2p3un5l2 wrote: Always strikes me as daft - Easter could well be seen as the start of the tourist season. One of the advertised attractions of this country is the Irish Pub. So you get a bunch of Americans, or French, or whatever, wandering around looking for "ceol agus craic", only to find all the pubs closed.
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You can be sure there's English stag do's wandering aimlessly round Temple Bar right now.

Yeah, there was a story in the paper last year about at least one very unhappy stag do that were over. I think they ended up alternating between rail station bars (Heuston and Connolly?). You can see how it would easily happen.

Saw a lot of tourists wandering around today with a lot of places closed. Im sure they would love a drink and maybe an irish craft one but they cant. Bet they are laughing at us in a bad way.

It must be a big tourist weekend and therefore an opportunity to promote irish craft beer which we are all about so I think we should have a stance to repeal the law.

&amp;quot;DCBrewing&amp;quot;:3i3mao56 wrote: Saw a lot of tourists wandering around today with a lot of places closed. Im sure they would love a drink and maybe an irish craft one but they cant. Bet they are laughing at us in a bad way.

It must be a big tourist weekend and therefore an opportunity to promote irish craft beer which we are all about so I think we should have a stance to repel the law.[/quote:3i3mao56]

Was downtown all day and saw the largest crowds since Christmas, and not a bar open. I actually forgot the law and was headed directly to AtG hoping that they had Beoir #1 still on keg...only to remember right as I got off the LUAS at Stephens <!-- s:evil: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_evil.gif" alt="" title="Evil or Very Mad" /><!-- s:evil: -->

gotta feel sorry for the treviso fans who travelled over to endure a 9 try to 1 demolition in rds. pints flowing there, but on leaving the ground, a drought of biblical proportions ...

I'll add one thing.. while I'm not a fan of the prohibition on Good Friday, my family used to run a pub in a small rural town and having a day where everyone closed, including the competition (and this was back in the days when a town of 700 could support 15 pubs!) allowed you to do things like getting the cigarette smoke stains on the celing painted over or varnishing the bar itself.. In places like the UK where the pubs tend to be run as managed business, then fine, stay open 365 days.. but we are lucky here that so many pubs are still small, family businesses that it's not too hard to accept one day in the year where they can get stuff done without fear of losing custom.