❝ Night Mayors will require a strong mandate that goes beyond representing the narrow commercial interests of publicans and club owners...
is a country that prides itself on its youthfulness, creative energy and tolerance. Chip away at that veneer though, and much of the State’s traditional conservatism and suspicion of the young remains intact. Nowhere is that more obvious than in the unsympathetic attitude of the political establishment to promoting and protecting urban nightlife.
Successive governments have seen late-night entertainment as something to be constrained and corralled by rigid licensing laws and strict regulation. There has been little or no recognition in our planning processes of the important contribution which nightclubs and other late-night facilities make to the social and cultural fabric of our towns and cities, or how LGBTQ and other marginalised communities have found their voices in these spaces.
The problem is made worse by the fact that there is hardly any overlap between the age demographic which sustains urban nightlife and those who regulate it. In many of the European countries against which Ireland benchmarks itself, city authorities have addressed this by appointing “night mayors” to liaise between the various interests involved in order to maintain a vibrant nighttime economy.
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