Disappointment with Minister for Justice’s decision on Good Friday

The representative bodies for the licensed trade, the LVA and VFI have said they are extremely disappointed with the Minister for Justice’s decision not to introduce legislation which would permit all licensed premises to serve alcohol on Good Friday this year. The Chief Executive of the LVA, Donall O’Keeffe said his members and members of […]

Reaction to Minister’s decision on Good Friday

#AboutTime Statement by the Licensed Vintners Association and Vintners Federation of Ireland The representative bodies for the licensed trade, the LVA and VFI have said they are extremely disappointed with the Minister for Justice’s decision not to introduce legislation which would permit all licensed premises to serve alcohol on Good Friday this year. The Chief […]

It’s now time to remove archaic Good Friday law

Publicans have described the law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Good Friday as an archaic and discriminatory law which has no place in a modern country. The two main representative groups, Vintners Federation of Ireland (Outside Dublin) and the Licensed Vintners Association (Dublin publicans) have called on the Government to immediately introduce legislation to […]