Hey guys,
It's all get ever so slightly hectic for me (again) over the last few weeks, you would not believe the amount of emails we are currently receiving and we are wokring our way through them all as we speak so if you're waiting reply to review you sent, believe us, we are reading through them all and we shall get back to you shortly - it's a never ending thing, we just got to make sure the reviews are all good so as not to let our standards down, which leads us nicely in to this columns twin subjects...

First up, the newspapers are full of the news (again) that St. Patrick is very disappointed in us all for the violence and heavy drinking (or should that be puking) that took place nationwide on St.Paddys Day. There were, according to the newspapers, over 700 people arrested after a day on the booze.

Now this is a story that never stops, there are numerous ads out at present from the likes of Diageo - Don't see a great night wasted, nearly every drink company - urging us all to enjoy their product responsibly and ofcourse Meas..... but the question has got to be is it all just a little too much, too late...

Now we as a site promote the pubs of Dublin, talk about hangovers so perhaps we should take a little responsibly for highlighting the fun that can be had if you've used our site for a good night out but there is no way we are going to take the site down. By entering this site, you must verify you are over 18 and we'd like to think that you're a responsible human being as well and would not binge drink...

...but ofcourse every once in a while doesn't everyone over-indulge a bit. I know myself now that the older I get the less I am able for continuous nights out and heavy sessions and it's usually a once a week thing - perhaps with a couple of pints during the week and to be honest with you I'm starting to really favour keeping my head together on nights out and usually leave and go home to bed if feeling slightly worse for wear or full of beer and spirits. So that's my solution, to go home. What's yours?

And where all these kids getting their drinks from, everybody has seen them on corners with booze well it's coming from somewhere, it hasn't just magically appeared. Someone is buying or serving them the drink and that is where it has to be stopped and as a society I guess we've got to stop glorifying binge drinking, in fact are we just glorifying it by mentioning it so much.

There seems to be a lack of trust somewhere in all this, and it's all the mixed messages are getting very hard to read into - just what is happening why society is drinking itself into these states is the question, or is it? Are they, or is it just in these media obsessed days that everything get pulled under the spotlight a lot more as more and more people get out their soapboxes.

The truth of these matters is out there somewhere and may I offer the opinion that if we were all a little nicer to each other and maybe a little less scared, it might work out a little safer.

Which nicely leads into the fact that this Friday is ofcourse Good Friday or 'Goo' Friday as you cannot buy a drink. You can drink but you can't buy it, lovely. Roll in Thursday evening and the packed off licences and shops as everyone thinks they can drink a lot more than usual cos it's banend. Maybe it's just our old fashioned rebel values bringing all this out in us. Either way it will be interesting to see if the same thing happens on Good Friday as happened on St. Paddys Day except this time there's no parade!! I'll be keeping my eyes open....

Until next time, have a super Easter and if you can't drink responsibly then please don't drink t all.. you're ruining it for the rest of us!

Fred.

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