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The queue for handbags (and gladrags) on 26 December last. Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

Form an orderly queue: Brown Thomas has been granted a full bar licence

Handbags at dawn, martinis at sundown.

BROWN THOMAS ON Dublin’s Grafton Street has been granted a full pub licence.

The decision was confirmed in the Circuit Licensing Court earlier today.

Constance Cassidy SC told the court that refurbishment on the third floor of the landmark department store had been carried out in accordance with planning permission.

She told Circuit Court President Mr Justice Raymond Groarke, who last month granted the store a Declaratory Order, that renovations and refurbishment had been completed and the store was now applying for a drinks licence.

The court had heard the store had been operating a wine licence in its restaurant for the last 40 years and now wished to improve the range of drinks on offer.

Ms Cassidy, who appeared with barrister Nicola-Jane Andrews and Compton Solicitors, said Brown Thomas & Co Ltd had bought a full pub licence from Falcon Irish Pubs Limited, which owned Ned McKnights on Main Street, Cappamore, in Co Limerick.

Architect Frank Kenny told the court that planning permission had been granted for a new kitchen and carvery area, dry goods and refrigerated storage areas, dining areas and staff facilities.

Lorraine Bedford, health and safety compliance manager with Brown Thomas, said the Fire Officer had inspected the premises and was satisfied works had been carried out according to the planning permission.

Ms Bedford last month told the court the store wished to make a full drinks menu, including beer and spirits, available to customers.

Judge Groarke today granted the store an ordinary seven-day publican’s licence.

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    Oct 30th 2022, 10:04 PM

    Where’s Samantha and her twitching nose? Or am I too old?

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    Oct 30th 2022, 10:05 PM

    @Paul Kossoff: call bewitched I think..from the 60s!!!

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    Oct 31st 2022, 2:03 AM

    @Paul Kossoff: Great theme tune, I never saw the programme but recently started playing the song with a band – what a pleasure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0VbMvcVaFM

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    Oct 31st 2022, 12:26 AM

    Incomplete list, my ex isn’t on it

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    Mute Charlie
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    Oct 30th 2022, 10:07 PM

    Grotbags off the emu show was one scary muddafuddger

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    Mute Mick Tobin
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    Oct 31st 2022, 12:06 AM

    I’m not into the commercialism of Halloween, but I appreciate its connection to All Saint’s – it’s its eve, where especially in Mexico one laughs at death, and the next day is a solemn day of remembrance for those that have passed. This connection is often forgotten in the party mayhem – particularly the (possibly hungover) next day.

    As for witches, I don’t much like the way they’ve been made scary. That’s a Christian charicature of the Celtic culture to be conquered (and a lethal one at that). To me, witches are priestesses of ancient Celtic ritual. Even the devil is plausibly like that; a charicature of the Celtic horned one, meant to scare people off to convert them.

    Anyway, don’t take it from me, I only got 5.

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    Oct 31st 2022, 12:25 AM

    @Mick Tobin: I’m not sure Sabrina was ever meant to be scary; total crush on her back in the 90s

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    Oct 31st 2022, 12:35 AM

    @Crocodylus Pontifex: There’s been a bit of a revival to be fair, but still the image connected to Halloween is the scary one. I guess a girl dressed up as Sabrina might not even be considered to be in fancy dress at a Halloween party. But there you go, like I said don’t take it from me…

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    Oct 31st 2022, 11:51 AM

    @Mick Tobin: Witchcraft was a terrifying movement of the middle ages which gained traction and ended up causing 1000s of women to be tortured and killed . There was even a witchfinder general ,a male of course and it’s generally accepted that it was just a form of mysogony . Any woman was a possible target ,uppitty annoying ones no doubt and then poor unfortunates who were suffering illness of every kind and tried to treat themselves and the children with herbs ,potions etc .Then there is the Salem witchtrials ,an actual event which I saw as a young student in a.drama about the event .Halloween is a total nonsense which takes a genuine horror story and has fun with it

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    Oct 30th 2022, 10:22 PM

    2 out of 10 so I’m a toad. Been called worse.

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    Oct 31st 2022, 12:25 AM

    I’d have scored better if I’d known witch answer to pick!

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    Oct 31st 2022, 12:29 AM

    @Joe Kennedy: you couldn’t have just gone with which witch is which?

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    Oct 31st 2022, 12:31 AM

    @Crocodylus Pontifex: I give up…..which one? Witch one is it?

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    Oct 31st 2022, 8:53 AM

    In all the stuff on witches lately, there’s been no mention of ‘The Witches of Eastwick’. It is a fabulous film, really well done and hilarious. One of my favourites. Jack Nicklaus was brilliant and the ladies were exceptional.

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    Oct 30th 2022, 11:11 PM

    Misleading title! I know about these witches, I just don’t know them personally! :D

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    Oct 31st 2022, 12:20 PM

    Disappointed that Priti Patel isn’t listed here…

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    Oct 31st 2022, 12:46 AM

    7/10
    I didn’t think it too much

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