The Good Friday Agreement

I have never been much of a drinker. Alcohol was never my thing - always in combination with something, as a social lubricant or rarely as a last resort.

However most Irish people go nuts for ethanol. It is important to remember that it is a drink and not a drug, and therefore acceptable to the point of television adverts and pikeys passing out in the streets covered in their own vomit and stinking of piss.

There is one day of the year where alcohol is forbidden to be sold in either pub or off-licence. Something to do with Catholic guilt and the holy mortifying shame of it all.
The Good Friday Agreement was a direct negotiation between the Irish Government and Jesus Christ. The Pope at the time kindly made his special telephone available for this purpose.

Jesus said something along the lines of (don't quote me on this) "Thou shalt not buy, sell or consume alcoholic beverages on this day or I shall smite you down, for I was nailed to a cross for three days and all I had to drink was poxy vinegar".

Now to most people it is merely an inconvenience to have to buy their drinks the day before. The forgetful and the lazy get sorted too. Where there is a will there is a way.

But here ye, hear ye, all you devout Catholics of upstanding faith take notice how Jesus never specified his stance on the use of narcotics over the Good Friday period. Here is the loophole for the faithful. Load up on xanax and cocaine today for tomorrow you can drink again, you decrepit alcoholic bastards!
 
Hiya,

I am a Christian (well I class myself as one), but I did not know i
Of this. I pray to God every evening n I think that in some way, alcohol has taken it away from me as I've not prayed some noghts as I've fallen asleep. I overheard someone say I have blackouts whatever the hell are those... Anyway I never knew about this. I don't really read the bible as the font is too small but if anyone would like to discuss this with me. Take care, Evey xxx
PS: interesting blog
 
I'm not too versed in the bible myself. I just know you can't buy alcohol here on Good Friday, Xmas day and only between the hours of 10am and 10pm in shops.

Of course you can drink in pubs or nightclubs until closing time which is like 2.30-3.30.

I just find it so odd that we as a nation fought so hard for "independence" from Great Britain only to immediately afterwards (almost literally) bend over for the Chruch, proclaiming ourselves to be a catholic nation.
I suppose It was a way of claiming our own identity from Protestant Britain.
 
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