Pub opening hours at Easter - is it time to scrap the restrictions? #BBCNolan

Mar 31, 2015, 10:17 AM

This weekend is the start of the Easter Holidays and with it comes restrictions on opening hours for pubs and clubs here in Northern Ireland. Limits on selling alcohol are currently in place from the Thursday before Easter until Easter Sunday. Pubs are unable to serve alcohol before 5pm on Good Friday. So should opening hours over Easter be extended? Or maybe you think people already have plenty of time to drink. We get the views of online blogger Belfast Barman and Peter Lynas from the Evangelical Alliance