Current off-licence sale times are 10pm. Image: Rollingnews.ie Current off-licence sale times are 10pm. Image: Rollingnews.ie THE GOVERNMENT IS considering banning the sale of alcohol after a certain time of day, the Tánaiste has said.
“When it comes to selling takeaway alcohol, that’s not illegal – anybody who’s getting their takeaway … you can get your bottle of beer or bottle of wine with that, nobody wants to ban that,” Varadkar told The Pat Kenny Show on Newstalk. But it seems that the publicans kind of get around this by serving a pint and putting a lid on it – and that’s not on. Varadkar said the government was going to “further enforce the existing ban of people drinking outdoors in public streets”.
“People say takeaway points are a problem; ban them. You can’t actually just do that. You’d have to ban all takeaway alcohol and that would create problems for restaurants and takeaways who really need that business now and also off-licences too,” the Tanaiste said. Click and collect will be stopped for non-essential shops and owners of businesses such as pubs and restaurants have been warned that they may be closed until the end of March.
Yeah I agree 100% even ban it outright, who really needs it anyway, and then curb fun, telling jokes etc even whistling...hate carefree heads who whistle !
Keep them in line leo. Make sure they are puppets on your string ha ha. This idiot will keep pushing non issue agendas like this and eventually lose any control he has.
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Covid is really clever you see 😀😀😀😀 what a complete fool
Jesus will they let us have anything 😡 They won’t be happy til we never leave home. I understand we’re in an unprecedented situation but stopping the sale of alcohol at certain times and stopping click & collect won’t solve anything 🤷🏻♀️
Leo needs to fuck right off big time. Tarring everyone with the one stick will come back to haunt him.
So going by what they are planning it will end up with more people congregating due to a shorter time to buy. Jaysus this government are really great problem solvers 🤔😂
Pathetic
LeoVaradkar EamonRyan Should be more concerned by the hundreds of trailers full of food that can't get out of Irish Ports for days because revenue computer system can't handle the amount out customs entries. That why shelves and fridges are empty in shops
People will just buy more alcohol and will end up drinking more as there pushed into Time limits,I don’t know what they think 🤔 this will achieve,and another factor more younger people are now more into drugs than Alcohol.
More kites being flown ! See how everyone else feels this is becoming tiresome !
johnnyc2589
For what reason
Nanny state
Why don’t they focus all their energy on the vaccinations instead of tweaking licensing hours - deck chairs on the titanic and all that
What utter Bo***ck*.
Great idea guys, I’m sure people won’t buy in bulk or all show up to the shop during the limited sale hours furthering the spread of COVID. Ugh we need a gov that understands human behaviour.
Jesus Christ. They’ve gone and done it this time....
Maybe the government needs to start looking after their own house and start taking their nose out of everyone elses
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Another waste of time counterproductive measure to add to the growing list
Once again the many will be punished for the actions of the few....
This is an attempt to blame a portion of society for virus spread when it was government decisions that has brought us to this point of extraordinary failure
The intelligence of this government. While you fucking cowboys are eating your way around the conference center please try and help this country as things are going to get a lot worse. Sometimes I cry.🤠
People getting upset over this...? Priorities🙄
So I can’t go the pub and have to listen to the missus on the weekend now you wanna stop me from having a few cans and giving her a knock fuck off!!!
Stop selling it duty free😷😷😷😷
Good one Leo that will bring the pandemic under control your a Genius
Ah yes give a shorter frame of time for people to buy alcohol so more people end up shopping at the same time making social distancing more difficult. How stupid are they?
Ah now here... you can't annouce school closures *and* restrictions on purchasing alcohol in the same week! 😳
This is to act as a distraction from the poor planning and execution by government for vaccine roll out ... keep the pressure on them or delivering a world class system 👍
Is there a ban on hospital beds? We have 7,000 fewer beds than in 2008. 4th lowest number of beds per capita among OECD countries. What has Leo (as Minister for Health and Prime Minister) done to increase capacity at our hospitals? 11 years and counting.
If people have to buy booze earlier some people will start drinking earlier, so maybe buy more than usual so they can drink later 🍻 🥴
Ban the sale of alcohol until June.
It should be delivery only..like the take aways.
It's as if covid is giving the government an opportunity to advance it's war against alcohol
Irish government the real virus on people
If this bothers u go buy plenty of cans in the morning . Stock up ! Bitching n the comments 🙄
Fuckin Sinn Féin’s fault
If the country had to be assessed by a psychiatrist, we'd be told we're not in a good place....
Grasping at straws now.
Selling alcohol for a reduced number of hours per day will decrease the spread of Covid by ? % How successful were the 9euro meals in the the war against the virus? When will these exciting studies be published? 🥴
This is ridiculous. For every one person who buys a slab of cans to go to a house party with their friends there must be ten who buy a few beers/bottle of wine to have in the comfort & safety of their own home but sure let's just punish everyone!
Is that similar to the ban they have on the vaccine?
Why?
OPEN THE DÁIL!!!!!
Yes cuz that should be the absolute PRIORITY! 🤦🏻NOT lack of health care staff, hospital beds & getting the Vaccine out to the Irish public.
FFS.
The issue with this is it will also condense grocery shopping times. Either that or people will make two trips when they only need to make one.