Irish nightlife advocates Give Us The Night, co-founded by DJ Sunil Sharpe, are holding public talks across Ireland over the next month. The discussions, taking...
Give Us The Night
Co-founder Sunil Sharpe hopes the discussion event series Where Is The Night? will reignite momentum in the stalled changes to Ireland's licensing and alcohol sale laws
"We were told [in early 2021] worst case scenario, it would take two years... It really feels like we've been strung along here", Give Us The Night campaign founder Sunil Sharpe said
Overall, €2 million is to be made available for eligible night clubs and venues
The series touches on drag and the Give Us The Night licensing campaign
It comes as the country's licensing laws get a long-awaited shake-up
Pubs will also now be allowed to remain open until 12.30 AM seven days a week
Plans include drafting specialist advisors for six towns and cities, extending opening hours for cultural spaces, and a series of large-scale pilot events aimed at diversifying night-time options.
A 6 AM closing time would be a major shift from the 2:30 AM cut-off
Running for six weeks in September 2022, the project is a response to the "dissapearance of the Irish nightclub"
A new pop-up club is opening in Dublin, conceived by a collective of architects, event producers, and club creatives — Temporary Pleasure.
The as-yet-unnamed venue...
Throughout the pandemic, grassroots activists and nightlife representatives have worked tirelessly to create a more sustainable, accessible and protected environment for dance music. DJ Mag...
Just four weeks after fully reopening
Clubs in the Republic of Ireland will be required to close at midnight from tomorrow — Thursday 18th November — as the country reintroduces several...
A pilot club event will also take place this month
Nightclubs in Ireland will be able to fully reopen from 22nd October, the Government has confirmed.
A four-stage reopening plan has been approved by the...
"Irish venues, nightclubs and music events are being disregarded," Sharpe says in the letter
Irish DJ Sunil Sharpe has penned an open letter to senior Irish politicians about what he describes as a neglect of the events industry.
Sharpe...