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MEN STABBED OUTSIDE SYDNEY PUB

Posted on May 30th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
Two teenagers are in critical condition following surgery for stab wounds sustained outside a Sydney pub on the weekend. A gathering of reportedly up to 300 people were celebrating a 22nd birthday at the Norfolk Hotel, on Cleveland Street, Redfern.

PATRONS ARE BACK, BUT SOME BEHAVING BADLY

Posted on April 29th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
Marking a somewhat macabre return to normality after two years in limbo, antisocial pub patrons around the country are finding fresh convictions for bad behaviour. A man allegedly stabbed another man outside a Canberra pub, but has been granted bail. 26-year-old Hayden

NATIONAL MEASURES COMPLIANCE PROGRAM UNDERWAY

Posted on March 25th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
The National Measurement Institute has begun sending inspectors to licensed venues around the country, as part of its latest round of measurement compliance measures. Beginning this week, the National Measurement Institute (NMI) is checking quantities on the sale of beer

MAN BRINGS MACHETE TO PUB BRAWL

Posted on March 15th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
A violent altercation involving weapons and sending six people to hospital took place in a pub in the Adelaide CBD over the weekend, with police now investigating links to gang violence. Around 1am on Sunday morning emergency services were called to

SYDNEY PUBLICAN BUSTED IN DRUG STING

Posted on January 28th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
A Paddington hotelier has pleaded guilty to drug offences, after a covert operation that resulted in arrests and dozens of charges being laid, News reports. Officers from the Kings Cross drug unit are thought to have stopped 49-year-old Robert Moroney

MAN JAILED OVER ROID-FUELLED RAGE AT PUB

Posted on January 24th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
A man has been sentenced to less than two years’ prison for a brutal steroid-fuelled attack in late 2020, assaulting a security guard and leaving an innocent patron with permanent injuries. Blakeview resident, 34-year-old Dale Ryan Lush, was drinking at

O’HARAS COLLECT WIN IN COVID COURT CHALLENGE

Posted on January 19th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
The O’Hara Group has successfully challenged a fine from the state regulator over COVID regulations, at Parramatta’s Collector Hotel. Following the first tranche of lockdowns, the O’Haras were forced to reconfigure aspects of their venues, particularly the spacing of machines

MAN ARRESTED OVER ROYAL EXCHANGE BLAZE

Posted on December 10th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A man has been arrested and charged over a fire at the Royal Exchange Hotel in Marrickville on Tuesday that endangered 20 people inside and killed the pub cat, Whiskey. Police and fire services were called to the Lewis Hotels

MARRICKVILLE’S ROYAL RAZED

Posted on December 8th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A suspected arson attack has seriously damaged Lewis Hotels’ Royal Exchange Hotel in Marrickville. Around 20 people, including staff, patrons and residents in rooms upstairs, had to be evacuated via fire truck ladder through a window after the fire took

WOMAN SENTENCED OVER GLASSING IN MACKAY PUB

Posted on November 24th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A 22-year-old woman has been convicted and sentenced for glassing a 35-year-old work colleague at Langford’s Hotel in Mackay. Kytarna Leyland-Rice, a BHP workforce co-ordinator, hit a glass she was holding into the head of another man in her work