Closing pubs and restaurants early in the North ‘will have unintended consequences’ 

John Frances Carty pulls a pint at The Maypole Bar in Holywood, Northern Ireland. Picture: PA

Closing pubs and restaurants at 10pm in Northern Ireland will have “unintended consequences” for the hospitality sector, it has been claimed.

Colin Neill, from Hospitality Ulster, called for any altered closing times to be aligned with regulations already in place in the Republic which has a 11.30pm curfew.