Is the party over for Stag nights?

Iarnród Éireann is moving to ban alcohol on some trains. It’s all down to the nuisance caused by unwanted stag and hen parties, says Paul D’Alton

THE lad was stripped naked, tied to a lamppost and looked ‘tarred and feathered’. This was not barbaric vigilantism — it was a stag night, though the lad wasn’t enjoying it.

Stag parties seemed to have monopolised the streets of Westport, Co Mayo, that weekend.