Thank you Nadir, my intention was to share a Christian type add for a local pub that reflects charity for the lonely, a very Christian act included in loving your neighbour.
It also reflects the situation in Ireland today. To begin with we see the man at his obviously wife's grave in a most Catholic graveyard with its crosses everywhere.
He then goes to his local for a pint.
When the Lord changed water into wine after the wedding wine was drunk, proves there is no harm in having a drink, or two. It is drunkenness that is sinful, and that man was portrayed as having  a pint while looking for company.
Two things are present in Ireland today, the closing down of rural pubs and the churches empty of priests to say Mass.
I have no doubt there was no local Mass that day for that man to go to.
At a time when Catholicism was everywhere in Ireland, both churches and pubs were full of Catholics.
Then came drinking laws that stopped rural people driving to pubs. Then came those absurd covid laws that forbid anyone going a mile from their home. Those rural pubs that served the social aspect of humanity were empty so had to close down.
As for Mass, well thanks to the changes brought about by Vatican II, when churches were ripped apart, altars ripped out to be replaced with tables, a new secular type of Mass that allowed innovations of all sorts, people lost faith and interest in it. I recall a friend gave me three beautiful crucifixes with bronze Jesus he found in a skip. Then came the scandals, priest with girlfriends and Bishop Casey with a child that came out on a television show. Then parents did not hand on the faith to their children, churches emptied and vocations to the priesthood disappeared. Today one elderly priest may have to cover two or three or four parish churches.

Also, Cassini since the penal drink driving laws there has been an increase in elderly ѕυιcιdєs especially in rural areas. It was always linked to social life that men from local communities gathered at the local watering holes for a chat and news.
On the other hand though it is a very large problem in Ireland as I can attest, as our ancestors and relations and family have suffered from the scourge as I lost a brother to the "demon drink" and was well on that road myself but saw the light thankfully.

At my brothers wake, I can also say without exaggeration practically everyone attested to a relative or a family member to have a similar affliction.

Viva, I would agree with a lot you say, as a matter of fact all of it. To others it sounds puritanical, but when you have a problem so big in a country it takes strong measures to solve that problem.

As stated earlier it has led to ѕυιcιdє, stealing, marriage breakdowns, divorce, hunger, poverty and abuse.

Venerable Matt Talbot, pray for us

Also, Cassini since the penal drink driving laws there has been an increase in elderly ѕυιcιdєs especially in rural areas. It was always linked to social life that men from local communities gathered at the local watering holes for a chat and news.
On the other hand though it is a very large problem in Ireland as I can attest, as our ancestors and relations and family have suffered from the scourge as I lost a brother to the "demon drink" and was well on that road myself but saw the light thankfully.

At my brothers wake, I can also say without exaggeration practically everyone attested to a relative or a family member to have a similar affliction.

Viva, I would agree with a lot you say, as a matter of fact all of it. To others it sounds puritanical, but when you have a problem so big in a country it takes strong measures to solve that problem.

As stated earlier it has led to ѕυιcιdє, stealing, marriage breakdowns, divorce, hunger, poverty and abuse.

Venerable Matt Talbot, pray for us

I assume that you live in Ireland, so you understand how things are there, better than most of us who live in the U.S.

It is an unfortunate circuмstance when family members are taken by "the drink." But it can also be a chance to allow Our Lord into one's life, since it is He who one should turn to when one is afflicted with any crisis, especially the problem of addiction. And it takes a great deal of love and kindness and firmness to help a family member who is suffering from this addiction, and that in itself can draw one closer to Our Lord (and our Lady), because of the prayers and sacrifices that are needed to help a loved one overcome the addiction.