
Newcastle councillors highlighted a Hotel Delany Facebook post telling uni students it was "time to get smashed" before deferring a decision on whether to allow the pub to stay open to 2am.
The popular Darby Street hotel applied last year to change its closing time from midnight to 2am Monday to Saturday and from 10pm to midnight on Sundays in a 12-month trial to allow the council and other authorities to gauge the impact on "adjoining" properties.