Today’s much-anticipated Refreshers’ Pav Friday has been cancelled in light of Trinity’s closure due to Storm Éowyn, leaving the college community feeling distraught.
In a statement on their Instagram, Trinity ENTS/SIAMSA said: “It is with heavy hearts that we announce that Refreshers’ Pav Friday has been cancelled. We would like to thank everyone that has texted and called so far with messages of support but we do ask for privacy in this upsetting period.”
They continued: “For now we ask you all to stay inside, hold onto your loved ones and pray that this horrible episode will soon be over.”
University Times Editor Brídín Ní-Fhearraigh Joyce has extended her condolences: “My heart goes out to all of ENTS, punters, and students during this trying time. A good alternative to the pub is praying for the welfare of the Pav and its attendants this evening.”
A student who wished to remain anonymous expressed their disappointment in what they felt constituted a “betrayal”: “When faced with a red weather warning, the normal thing to do is to go out buying bread, milk, toilet paper… I didn’t really anticipate that I’d have to stock up on liquor, too. I’m feeling a bit lost here without the Pav. Hopefully LIDL will reopen soon so I can get some Huzzar to lull me to sleep and help me forget this ever happened.”
In brighter news, that one guy who keeps urging you to “come Pav, bro” midweek reportedly feels vindicated after hearing that this week’s Pav Friday has fallen through. 2025 is shaping up to be the year of Pav Mondays, just as he’s been hoping for the last two years.
Refreshers’ Pav Friday was set to be the formative event of Hilary Term 2025, with hopes abound that it would both reinvigorate students’ usual term time drinking habits, and introduce the cohort of incoming exchange students to Trinity’s bibulous ways.
Pav Friday is a longstanding College tradition whereby students wait 30 minutes in line for a pint, only to promptly leave for Chaplin’s upon realising that all five people who came to Trinity from your secondary school are at arm’s length from you, despite the statistical improbability of such a harrowing event occurring.
