Pub licences depend on boycott of student drinking binge

GARDAÍ and residents in Bishopstown, Co Cork, have objected to the liquor licence being renewed for two bars in the area unless the bars’ owners gave undertakings not to have anything to do with the so-called CIT Christmas Day.

The authorities of Cork Institute of Technology and the students union have no part in organising the event, described as a drinking festival, which usually takes place on the last Thursday of November.

Gardaí and residents are opposed to the event, which starts in the morning and attracts students from colleges all over Cork and Munster. The activities have centred in the past on two particular pubs — The Bishopstown Bar and McCarthy’s Bar on Model Farm Road (formerly the Tennis Village).