Fair play to Galway City Co cleaners

ronnie3585

I left Cross St at about 4am this morning. The place was, as expected, completely destroyed in plastic glasses, bottles, broken glass and every other type of rubbish imaginable. I've never seen it as bad.

Heading home at about 8am the place was spick and span. They must have taken truck loads of rubbish out of the place.

Well done lads!

Wompa1

Were the bins full? or just ignorant A-holes throwing crap everywhere?

HardyEustace

Wompa1 wrote: »

Were the bins full? or just ignorant A-holes throwing crap everywhere?

I think it's just the sheer volume of people. On newstalk this morning, they said there was 70,000 people out in galway last night. No matter how many bins there are, the place is so wedged that people may not be able to get to the bins and/or the bins could be full.

charlie_says

ronnie3585 wrote: »

I left Cross St at about 4am this morning. The place was, as expected, completely destroyed in plastic glasses, bottles, broken glass and every other type of rubbish imaginable. I've never seen it as bad.

Heading home at about 8am the place was spick and span. They must have taken truck loads of rubbish out of the place.

Well done lads!

I saw them do a fabulous job early in the morning after one St. Patrick's day around Eyre Square.

Plenty of night civil workers get no love! Hats off to all of them.

ronnie3585

HardyEustace wrote: »

I think it's just the sheer volume of people. On newstalk this morning, they said there was 70,000 people out in galway last night. No matter how many bins there are, the place is so wedged that people may not be able to get to the bins and/or the bins could be full.

Exactly. It wouldn't have mattered if there was a bin every five feet, the volume of people was that great that the place was always going to get filthy. The rubbish was ankle deep in places!

Wompa1

Woah 70,000! Nice!! Your right, Plus the bins don't tend to get emptied very regularly no matter the occasion. Nice bit of money for the pubs and clubs last night at least.

Fuinseog

ronnie3585 wrote: »

I left Cross St at about 4am this morning. The place was, as expected, completely destroyed in plastic glasses, bottles, broken glass and every other type of rubbish imaginable. I've never seen it as bad.

Heading home at about 8am the place was spick and span. They must have taken truck loads of rubbish out of the place.

Well done lads!

there is no fair play about it. if the place looked like a warzone by day tourits would be less than impressed and there would be complaints to the JD show and after the water fiasco galway cannot afford to mess up again.

HardyEustace

Wompa1 wrote: »

Woah 70,000! Nice!! Your right, Plus the bins don't tend to get emptied very regularly no matter the occasion. Nice bit of money for the pubs and clubs last night at least.

And the off licences. There was tons of people at Bucky plaza at about 9.

charlie_says

Didn't venture into town last night. Say it was horrible.

I imagine the fake tan business is doing well though.

HardyEustace

charlie_says wrote: »

I imagine the fake tan business is doing well though.

Funny you should say that! I was actually going to post about the sheer volume of orange people in town! It was rather hilarious. Obviously there were quite a few devotees of the Jordan school of presentation and "style". Normally finished off with a giant bottle of blue wicked. Pure class, pure class...

ronnie3585

This is an actual photo taken on Shop St last nigh;

HardyEustace

ronnie3585 wrote: »

This is an actual photo taken on Shop St last nigh;

Hand on... something's not quite right...hmmmm... aha, I see <lightbulb moment>.... where's the blue wicked and the fake Juicy Couture handbags?

Madame Razz

Probably worth pointing out that the clean up is also carried out by the employees of the various bars in the Cross St/Latin quarter area of the city. As far as I know they're obliged to do it. Have even seen the owner of two such establishments in this area helping to shovel up the carnage. Once they've down the big clean up the city council boys move in(as they do every early morning)

So fair play to the bar staff also:)

Wompa1

Can't just be knocking the girls in fairness. I didn't go into town luckily but out where I was around Headford Road there were plenty of Orange girls but the lads weren't much better metrosexual wearing farmers caps..I'm all for keeping traditions alive but if your going to keep the image of past generations of Irish MEN, you should at least be a man not a plike

biko

Was driving through town yesterday at 8pm, lots of nice looking dressed up girls. Can't figure out the deal with those strange hats though.
Only downer was when I saw two drunk under-age scumbags in mohawks messing with the security at the bus station. When he rang the Guards they fecked off pronto. Wanted to take a video with the camera but was driving at the same time.

thegrayson

After seeing the state of Eyre Square at 7:00 this morning I have to say fair play to the poor lads having to clean up the mess. A mess which as far as I could see was mainly Supermacs bags etc.

muppetkiller

I still can't understand why Buckfast isn't sold in Plastic bottles !! The scumbags that drink the stuff seem to have a ritual of smashing the bottle into the ground after drinking it..

PS. Yes i know not all Bucky drinkers are scumbags but the majority are !

Mr_A

I think the City Council do a very good job with keeping the place clean. I often notice stuff thrown along the dual carriageway or in the underpass near the Clayton Hotel but it disappears very quickly.

You'd shudder to think how bad things would get if they even stopped for a few weeks.

ronnie3585

muppetkiller wrote: »

I still can't understand why Buckfast isn't sold in Plastic bottles !! The scumbags that drink the stuff seem to have a ritual of smashing the bottle into the ground after drinking it..

PS. Yes i know not all Bucky drinkers are scumbags but the majority are !

What would they use to assault people then?

padi89

muppetkiller wrote: »

I still can't understand why Buckfast isn't sold in Plastic bottles !! The scumbags that drink the stuff seem to have a ritual of smashing the bottle into the ground after drinking it..

PS. Yes i know not all Bucky drinkers are scumbags but the majority are !

Generalize much ? The majority ? That's an awful load of bollocks if i do say so myself.

Anyway, how would you feel if your local barman said "no more pint glasses, its plastics from now on and all bottled beers from now on will be also in plastic bottles, im sick of cleaning up broken glass at the end of the night"

You wouldn't be too happy id say?

Wompa1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGWt3SNDdNM

Lets hear it for the Cleaners!

Also wouldn't be bothered by drinking out of plastic glasses...

brianthebard

padi89 wrote: »

Generalize much ? The majority ? That's an awful load of bollocks if i do say so myself.

Anyway, how would you feel if your local barman said "no more pint glasses, its plastics from now on and all bottled beers from now on will be also in plastic bottles, im sick of cleaning up broken glass at the end of the night"

You wouldn't be too happy id say?

Oh noes, beer in plastic, what will I do? Oh, I know, drink it. :rolleyes: jesus is it really that important to you that buckfast comes in a glass bottle?

muppetkiller

padi89 wrote: »

Generalize much ? The majority ? That's an awful load of bollocks if i do say so myself.

Anyway, how would you feel if your local barman said "no more pint glasses, its plastics from now on and all bottled beers from now on will be also in plastic bottles, im sick of cleaning up broken glass at the end of the night"

You wouldn't be too happy id say?

You're obviously a 16-24 yo bucky drinker then. I live down at the Spanish Arch so have to put up with this Sh$t every night of the week so it's hardly a generalization.And as someone who cycles to work this pi$$es me off no end with the amount of Punctures I get.

And your point is a nonsensical one ..I'm talking about in the Spanish Arch or Bucky Plaza as you'd call it. Pint-Glasses are only served indoors (or Quay Street sometimes) and you can be sure if people started smashing them off the ground after every drink they'd be thrown out. Like it or not people drink buckfast to get smashed , hardly for it's lovely Taste. I should know I drank it by the bucket loads in College

padi89

brianthebard wrote: »

Oh noes, beer in plastic, what will I do? Oh, I know, drink it. :rolleyes: jesus is it really that important to you that buckfast comes in a glass bottle?

Don't talk absoulte ****e and be a bit realistic, throw up a pole there on AH and see how many people wouldn't care if pint glasses and bottles were rid of and changed to plastics. Sure **** it, while we're at it might as well sticks wine into plastic bottles too, who'd give a **** as long as you can drink it. :rolleyes:

padi89

padi89 wrote: »

Don't talk absoulte ****e and be a bit realistic, throw up a pole there on AH and see how many people wouldn't care if pint glasses and bottles were rid of and changed to plastics. Sure **** it, while we're at it might as well sticks wine into plastic bottles too, who'd give a **** as long as you can drink it. :rolleyes:

Why would you want to throw a Pole up on AH? Surely the poor guy'd be eaten alive?

OT - fair play to the lads. I'd say last night was extraordinarily messy.

zero19

padi89 wrote: »

Don't talk absoulte ****e and be a bit realistic, throw up a pole there on AH and see how many people wouldn't care if pint glasses and bottles were rid of and changed to plastics. Sure **** it, while we're at it might as well sticks wine into plastic bottles too, who'd give a **** as long as you can drink it. :rolleyes:

Sure what difference does it make? I wouldn't give a ****e if the bottles were plastic myself

mikom

I threw up a pole once........... dreadful splinters in my throat after though.

muppetkiller

padi89 wrote: »

Don't talk absoulte ****e and be a bit realistic, throw up a pole there on AH and see how many people wouldn't care if pint glasses and bottles were rid of and changed to plastics. Sure **** it, while we're at it might as well sticks wine into plastic bottles too, who'd give a **** as long as you can drink it. :rolleyes:

I didn't state all Glass should be replaced with Plastic...just Buckfast Bottles.

Sorry for bring this thread off topic OP

brianthebard

padi89 wrote: »

Don't talk absoulte ****e and be a bit realistic, throw up a pole there on AH and see how many people wouldn't care if pint glasses and bottles were rid of and changed to plastics. Sure **** it, while we're at it might as well sticks wine into plastic bottles too, who'd give a **** as long as you can drink it. :rolleyes:

Plenty of wine already comes in boxes, so what? And beer comes in both cans and bottles and there haven't been many riots about it. You must have a serious glass fetish or something.

Eman Resu

A pint glass is a tool, it only becomes a wepon if the person holding it is a tool, same with a bottle of buckfast, the drink itself isnt to blame its a small group of ejits that drink it give it a bad reputation.

skelliser

i like beer.

HardyEustace

HardyEustace wrote: »

they said there was 70,000 people out in galway last night. .

And how exactly do they conclude there were that many, when you think of even just the people in the streets never mind pubs, it's near impossible to even hazard a guess unless they flew overhead with a helicopter and a calculator.

Considering there were 44k at the races, and that nearly half would be from Galway anyway i doubt that another 26k went out for the night on top of EVERY person who attended the track.
The number would prob be about 44k, add on a few 1000 for the ones who didnt go out after the races(but attended) and replace them with locals(who didnt attend).

Mrs OBumble

Mr_A wrote: »

You'd shudder to think how bad things would get if they even stopped for a few weeks.

Or even a few days, at this time of year.

Fey!

It should be pointed out that Cross Street/High Streetquay Street are cleaned up by the pubs. As someone said earlier, one guy who has 2 premises in the area can always be seen race week at 3 in the morning cleaning the street, and back again at 9 in the morning to hose it down.

The corporation guys are extremely hard workers, but unfortunately their bosses have cut the number of cleaners and bin collectors, which is why the city is starting to look the way it was 5 years ago again.

a123

Fey! wrote: »

It should be pointed out that Cross Street/High Streetquay Street are cleaned up by the pubs. As someone said earlier, one guy who has 2 premises in the area can always be seen race week at 3 in the morning cleaning the street, and back again at 9 in the morning to hose it down.

The corporation guys are extremely hard workers, but unfortunately their bosses have cut the number of cleaners and bin collectors, which is why the city is starting to look the way it was 5 years ago again.

Not just the pubs either, Supermac's staff also go out cleaning street at night and I saw them hose down street Friday morning.

Shanley

As part of the agreement for extra Gardai presence etc All pubs are reponsible for outside their own pubs. Its the bar staff you should be saying thanks to, all the council do is supply free shovels to every pubs on High, Mainguard, Quay & Cross St

Mrs OBumble

Trust me, the mess isn't just confined to that part of town.

Fair play to EVERYONE who's involved in cleaning up after ye.

brianthebard

Shanley wrote: »

As part of the agreement for extra Gardai presence etc All pubs are reponsible for outside their own pubs. Its the bar staff you should be saying thanks to, all the council do is supply free shovels to every pubs on High, Mainguard, Quay & Cross St

source?

Fey!

Shanley wrote: »

As part of the agreement for extra Gardai presence etc All pubs are reponsible for outside their own pubs. Its the bar staff you should be saying thanks to, all the council do is supply free shovels to every pubs on High, Mainguard, Quay & Cross St

Wrong.

Galway Corporation for years have put the onus on ALL businesses (sp) in the city to be responsible for outside their own premises, leaning harder on the pubs and take aways then other outlets. It pre-dates the closing of the streets, and it's in place all year round.

As for the shovels, that's the first time I've heard that, and the two publicans I mentioned it to went into spasms of laughter at the thought of Galway Corporation giving anything out for free!!

skelliser

Shanley wrote: »

As part of the agreement for extra Gardai presence etc All pubs are reponsible for outside their own pubs. Its the bar staff you should be saying thanks to, all the council do is supply free shovels to every pubs on High, Mainguard, Quay & Cross St

For years the council workers have been out with the leaf blowers and those cleaning/hover truck thingies every morning, iv never seen bar staff out cleaning.

The thanks should be to the council staff who clean the streets everyday of the year.

Fuinseog

Fey! wrote: »

It should be pointed out that Cross Street/High Streetquay Street are cleaned up by the pubs. As someone said earlier, one guy who has 2 premises in the area can always be seen race week at 3 in the morning cleaning the street, and back again at 9 in the morning to hose it down.

The corporation guys are extremely hard workers, but unfortunately their bosses have cut the number of cleaners and bin collectors, which is why the city is starting to look the way it was 5 years ago again.

the pubs clean up outside their own pubs. wow! they make a fortune. its the least they can do. why not priase macdonalds who clean up in front of their place every evening.

given the amount of money coming into the city they should have more cleaners

Head The Wall

skelliser wrote: »

For years the council workers have been out with the leaf blowers and those cleaning/hover truck thingies every morning, iv never seen bar staff out cleaning.

The thanks should be to the council staff who clean the streets everyday of the year.

That's their job in fairness, is it to much to expect them to do the job they we pay them for properly.

BornToBe?

Has anybody not seen the tractor with a slurry tank attached at around 5am,
This was a few months ago in eyre square, The tanker is full of disinfective of fairy up, its cool, they line up and then turn it on, about a 50ft jet of water power housing everything, including the gobs***es giving the clean up crew grief, some sight, and all of shop st eyre square smells like a swiming pool. its really an army of guys out there going hell for leather, just cant understand the drunkin idiots giving them grief.

brianthebard

wtf? a slurry tank full of 'fairy up'? Can I have what you're smoking?

BornToBe?

my bad, ment to say disinfective OR fairy up, I dunno know what they use, but it smells so fresh and so clean clean.... prob to deal with vomit?

mikom

BornToBe? wrote: »

my bad, ment to say disinfective OR fairy up,

Very gooood, I like, I like, Yakshama.

ErnieBert

Here is a photo of the street been washed early in the morning.......

Have I attached it correctly?


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JJayoo

I have been working nights for the past week. Each morning it looks as if a bomb made of sh1t has gone off, but then again the square looks terrible most nights. The cleaners do a great job, and some credit to the seagulls for helping clean up all the supermacs and vomit Mmmmmmm

Head The Wall

JJayoo wrote: »

I have been working nights for the past week. Each morning it looks as if a bomb made of sh1t has gone off, but then again the square looks terrible most nights. The cleaners do a great job, and some credit to the seagulls for helping clean up all the supermacs and vomit Mmmmmmm

The old seagulls, they got a hot meal the night I seem them working years ago. friend was puking down near bridge meals. They started eating it while he was still there retching

brianthebard

BornToBe? wrote: »

my bad, ment to say disinfective OR fairy up, I dunno know what they use, but it smells so fresh and so clean clean.... prob to deal with vomit?

You're sticking with the 50ft spray and water cannoning of drunks aspect of your story though? do not believe.