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Take the Give Us The Night Irish Nightclub Survey 2024

Take the Give Us The Night Irish Nightclub Survey 2024

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The Irish nightlife advocacy group wants your help.

Give Us The Night is seeking submissions and info from actual clubgoers and attendees of late night clubs and gigs, along with owners, bar workers, promoters, artist managers, collectives, performers, DJs and basically – anyone invested in nightlife in Ireland.

The survey runs til September 26th, and you can access it here.

Read Give Us The Night’s accompanying statement about why this survey exists…



Too often the public discourse around Irish nightlife and nightclubs in particular, is dominated by people who don’t operate, work in or access these venues. Dr Gordon Holmes, the head of the Fianna Fáil appointed advisory group on alcohol in 2007/08, once joked that he didn’t know what the inside of a nightclub looked like. That didn’t stop him and his 6-man group from recommending a number of senseless changes to nightclub-related licensing laws and conditions. Changes that caused irreparable damage to the industry. Combined with the incoming financial downturn that started in late 2008, the industry entered a swift free fall. That year we had 328 nightclubs, today the figure is at approximately 90 (some of which it can be disputed are even fully-fledged nightclubs).

We don’t believe that the public’s desire to dance at night has gone away, or ever will, but we acknowledge numerous challenges that exist for nightclubs and their ability to remain sustainable. With this in mind, we would like your feedback based on your experience of nightclubs in Ireland. This survey is not for those who continually try to drag down nightlife, paint it in a negative light, and won’t be happy until we have nowhere to socialise at night. This survey is for USERS of nightlife, users of dance venues, users of nightclubs across Ireland. We want this to highlight challenges and opportunities, and to gauge the type of nightclub experience that you want to have (and what it might take to achieve that).

This survey is conducted anonymously, so no personal information will be collected or shared. The results will be crucial in the next stages of our communication with government and opposition parties, and will help to demonstrate a clear overview of what this industry is about and where it needs to go.

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Link here: https://tinyurl.com/irishnightclubsurvey2024 


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