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Poll: Will you take an alcoholic drink today?

Your daily bite-sized ballot break.

WHILE THERE HAS been talk of lifting the restrictions on the sale of alcohol on Good Friday, it won’t happen today.

Not that it will stop a large number of Irish people from having a tipple of what they fancy, be that on a train, hotel residents’ bar or – if you’re not paying for it – in a private residence of your choice.

Do you intend to partake of an alcoholic beverage at some stage today?

Poll Results:

Yes (10766)

No (8418)

No, but I don't drink alcohol (1399)

Yes
No
No, but I don't drink alcohol

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