RTE --
An 18-year-old woman, who was one of seven people injured in a crush outside Copper Face Jacks nightclub in Dublin last night, is now in a stable condition in hospital ... The incident happened outside the club on Harcourt Street at about midnight. Gardaí say around 1,500 people were queuing outside the nightclub at the time. The club was running a night called 'Messy Mondays', in which all drinks are €3.50, according to its Facebook page.
Ireland has a vigorous alcohol lobby which works within a major public blind spot about drinking to make it seem normal that 1500 people -- by all accounts, mostly teenagers -- would queue up at midnight on a Monday night for somewhat cheap booze.
An 18-year-old woman, who was one of seven people injured in a crush outside Copper Face Jacks nightclub in Dublin last night, is now in a stable condition in hospital ... The incident happened outside the club on Harcourt Street at about midnight. Gardaí say around 1,500 people were queuing outside the nightclub at the time. The club was running a night called 'Messy Mondays', in which all drinks are €3.50, according to its Facebook page.
Ireland has a vigorous alcohol lobby which works within a major public blind spot about drinking to make it seem normal that 1500 people -- by all accounts, mostly teenagers -- would queue up at midnight on a Monday night for somewhat cheap booze.