DUBLIN, Ireland - A nursing home in Ireland has hit on a cheering way to keep up the spirits of its elderly patients -- by providing its own pub. St Mary’s Hospital in County Monaghan, near the Irish border with Northern Ireland, believes ready access to a good pint may help its patients -- average age 85 -- actually live longer. “We would say the whole social aspect of life does extend the years -- it means the patients aren’t bored to death,” Rose Mooney, assistant director of nursing told Reuters. The pub, which opens at 11 a.m. and closes at 9 p.m. and charges normal bar prices, had also led to an increase in the number of visitors, she said. Personaly I feel I cannot respond to this without feeling racist and stereotyping... But the story is about the Irish... More drinking goodness. Well, actually no, thats all of it, but you get the idea.
My school got their own pub now, shame I've already left A beer a day is supposed to be good for concentration, we should be having a pint before exams
State-dependent learning! You'd have to have a beer before you recall what you have learned. Drinking at work? 'tis so I can recall my training more effectively, sir!
Pretty much the best thing to between the onset of senility and the onset of being lowered 6 feet under I reckon.
Our principal did once give our year (12) several crates of Fosters for an end of year celebration, just after year 13 left. Then again just before I left year 13, a fabulous night, outdoor swimming pool, filled with warm water and foam, beer in one hand, burger in another, watching an outdoor movie projected onto a wall with the girls
Damn, I went to school in the wrong country. Seriously, though...as someone said above, best thing between senility and sod. If you don't remember anything anyways, it won't hurt to get drunk enough to not remember!
sigh, we had a total bitch as head of 6th form, for the end of year party/prom/thingy she let people have 1 glass of champagne with dinner and that was it when i heard this i decided that £25 for a probably crappy dinner and 1 glass of champagne in bloody mitcham was a bit steep, so me and my mates just went to the pub £25 gets you a lot more there
Drunk before noon! I personally think this is a pretty good idea. No reason the elderly can't get a bit of smashed for fun as well as the rest of us.
