Longer opening hours for pubs, and alcohol in museums on the cards

The objective of the bill will be to repeal the Licensing Acts and the Registration of Clubs Acts in their entirety and to replace them with updated provisions which government sources say are "more suited to the 21st century". 

Longer opening hours and alcohol licences for museums and galleries will be included in a new bill on the sale of alcohol due before Cabinet today.

Hildegarde Naughton, the Minister of State for Civil and Criminal Justice, will seek Cabinet approval to draft the General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2021.