bar open after closing hours

[rmelly]

Wow, it's a bit crowded up on the high moral ground, are we to asume that all these people would get up and walk out of a pub half way through a drink when the clock goes past closing and drinking up time? To say the guy deserves it for serving up a few drinks after closing is not cool in my book.

I think one person said anything about the landlord 'deserving it' or similar, so relax.

 

[mathepac]

I think it's illegal to serve alcohol to someone who is drunk - whatever the definition of "drunk" is.

Yes it is. Here is one piece of legislation - http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2003/en/act/pub/0031/sec0004.html#partii-sec4
and here is the definition of a "drunken person" = http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2003/en/act/pub/0031/sec0002.html#parti-sec2

 

[ClubMan]

“drunken person” means a person who is intoxicated to such an extent as would give rise to a reasonable apprehension that the person might endanger himself or herself or any other person, and “drunk” and “drunkenness” are to be construed accordingly;

Why on earth is the bit in red a potential offence!?

 

[mathepac]

I don't know but apparently its an arrestable offence.

The old "drunk and incapable" offence or some such words now reads as the bit you highlighted in red above.

 

[z103]

Why on earth is the bit in red a potential offence!?

Maybe because the state will also try to protect its citizens to some degree, whether they like or appreciate it or not.
(Eg. guards picking up a drunk and incapable youth sleeping in the gutter and putting them in the cell for the night)
Is suicide also an offence?

 

[europhile]

After the legislation was introduced, a couple of dodgy pubs in the north inner city were prosecuted. I'd have liked to have seen the Gardai trying it in the Shelbourne Hotel or Doheny & Nesbitt.

 

[S.L.F]

I guess if someone is coherent enough to order a drink, or one of his mates can order him/her a drink, he/she is not drunk?

At a certain stage of the night when we are all plastered, your voice slows down, you forget what it was you were talking about, you end up talking through your hat basically.

I have a friend who is a barman.

He tells me he is fluent in that language.

OP I believe your brother should not report the lad to the Gardai he should be barred nothing more, lets face facts what are the Gardai going to do?

The most he will get is a caution.

Leave well enough alone.

 

[rmelly]

At a certain stage of the night when we are all plastered, your voice slows down, you forget what it was you were talking about, you end up talking through your hat basically.

I have a friend who is a barman.

He tells me he is fluent in that language.

Exactly, and when has that ever stopped a publican serving someone?