The plans would also give pubs the option of opening from 10.30am to 12.30am, seven days a week, while opening hours for late bars will remain at up to 2.30am.
Linnane goes out most weekends, and sometimes on weeknights. However, the selection of clubs in Dublin is, he says, “quite poor” compared to what’s available abroad.There has been a shift in recent times, he adds, with his friends now preferring to go to the local pub rather than go for a night of dancing. However, he hopes the proposed changes might reinvigorate the nightlife scene.
Some late-night clubs in Liverpool, for example, stay open until 6am or 7am, with a majority of bars in that city keeping the lights on until 4am. In Berlin, there is no official closing time. The staggered closing times should also make it easier to get home, he says, adding that he has often struggled to secure a taxi when everyone leaves venues at the same time.The sentiment is echoed by Jim Waldron, spokesman for the National Private and Hire Taxi Association, who says extended hours should remove the “mad dash out the door at 2am looking for a taxi”.
A number of high-profile premises have disappeared in recent years. Jam Park, previously the Wright Venue, in Swords, Dublin closed during the pandemic; Dublin hotspot Hangar became a hotel and the Tivoli Theatre remains shut. “It does appear that the notes are being hit in terms of our asks,” he says. “Essentially, we want more dance floors, we want more creative use of existing cultural spaces and putting some of the existing space to better use.”It could bring in increased tourism, too, according to Fáilte Ireland.
Robert Stapleton, a Dublin DJ known as High Fidelity, says longer events make it “more feasible for people to pursue a career in music and the nightlife industry”.
Circuses but very expensive bread.
Purple light, that’s interesting. Same colour lights as used by glasshouse and poly tunnel growers to extend daylight growing hours during winter. Will clubbers get a growth boost?
This would have been great 15 years ago when there were actual nightclubs to go to
We sure are, every woman loves a sweaty slightly tipsy John Delaney around 5.55am....
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Nope .The Irish Government Taxes the Jesus out of Alcohol for 'Our Own Good' then when people stop going to Pubs and Clubs because drink now costs an arm & a leg. .Their 'Solution' is all Day Drinking? .In Ireland? .This is Not a Good idea .
Wait are people going to be forced to stay in a nightclub until 6am 😂