{"id":283961,"date":"2026-02-06T13:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283961\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:34:10","slug":"bill-linnane-youngsters-today-are-more-into-barbells-than-bars-but-thats-not-a-bad-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283961\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Linnane: Youngsters today are more into barbells than bars, but that\u2019s not a bad thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">My generation\u2019s social lives revolved around drinking too much, but I\u2019m glad it\u2019s not like that any more\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The gym is to young people what dingy bars were to us. Photo posed: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hest press in a gym.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The gym is to young people what dingy bars were to us. Photo posed: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When I was growing up in the early 1990s, I counted down the days to turning 18 so that I could drink in the local hotspot \u2013 The Meeting Place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was the pub we all aspired to drink in as it was, as the name suggested, a great confluence of people \u2013 bikers, ravers, culchies, flaneurs, random toffs from the local private school, all thrown together in one packed venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My generation\u2019s social lives revolved around drinking too much, but I\u2019m glad it\u2019s not like that any more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17711,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-283961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bill-linnane","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}