there is no need to tip children especially in rural areas where there are music sessions on the pub is a place that all the family enjoy so dont bother complaining to the barman if you see kids running around the place closing times irelands pub closing times are confusing during the week pubs serve until 1130 pm on fridays and saturdays its 1230 am and on sunday its 11 pm in all cases there is a half hour drinking up time at the weekends because most of the pubs close at the same time the towns and cities get very crowded at about 1 am making it a challenge to get a taxi home some pubs have a late license allowing them to serve until 230 am the same time as nightclubs must stop serving in additon pubs actually close completely on good friday and christmas day so be prepared for long lines at the liquor store on holy thursday and christmas eve however there are exceptions if youre staying in a hotel or traveling on a train on good friday you can buy a drink up until 2000 pubs had to close from 2 pm to 4 pm on sundays the socalled holy hour the bizarre thing was that as long as you were already inside the bar before 2 pm you were could stay the bar just couldnt let anyone in during these hours another peculiar law concerning drinking in ireland is that technically its an offense to be drunk in public just thought you should know