Good Friday Syndrome and that Fear of Missing Out

A Different View with Dave O’Connell

There should be a scientifically-approved condition known as Good Friday Syndrome; it would be that feeling you get when you’re forbidden from doing something that you’d never really planned to do anyway – but now that you’re not allowed to do it, you desire it more than anything else in the world.

It would be called Good Friday Syndrome, and not just for the week that’s in it, because that’s where it first manifested itself…in that denial of the right to go drinking all day on a Friday – something most normal people never do, but which they will jump through hoops to manage on the one Friday of the year that all pubs are forbidden from opening.

To get around the problem, they’ll book planes and boats and trains because moving bars are still entitled to serve alcohol; some thirsty thinkers have been known to book cheap flights so they can go to airport bars and then fly nowhere – other than wherever the drink brings them in their heads.

I’m not sure if it’s a uniquely Cork thing – or indeed if this practice still exists – but certainly 30 years ago when I lived there, all sports and social clubs in the city were given a two-hour window where members could come and enjoy a drink of a Good Friday.

But, with careful planning and the help of one paid-up member, you could tour the city in two-hour intervals to sate even the most vicious of thirsts; you’d start off in the usual GAA clubs like Glen Rovers or Blackrock and end up in more obscure spots like Harlequins Hockey Club.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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