Off Message: Nadine O'Regan on the lost art of moderation

In our binge-or-bust culture, the Good Friday drink ban has to go, in order for us to embrace the most difficult routine of all

Getting ready for another interminably dry Good Friday Pic: Getty

The Good Friday alcohol ban has to go. Of course it does. This should be obvious to anyone with even the most superficial understanding of what it means to live in this country. The ban should be lifted not because of vintners, who are upset because they lose a day’s business every year.

And not because of the Church, although anything that reduces the Church’s undue influence on this country is to be ...