Reader's Blog: Good Friday pub move not welcome

I wondered as I listened to a licenced vintner spokesman advocating that the opening of pubs on Good Friday would be good for everyone, including in his list, tourists, government, and Revenue. Will it be good for the poor unfortunate families of alcoholics, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, who wait in dread of an extra night they must wait in fear of what condition a loved one will appear home from the local pub?

I listened as a radio carried out a poll on whether pubs should open or stay closed on Good Friday and the result was 94% voted that they should stay closed. So where is the call coming from? I believe it is from the big super pubs, not from the general pub owner who is denied another day’s rest or to carry out some renovations.