Ragweek thread time

What is it with the media and rag week in Galway. UCC rag week was on a few weeks ago and the place was gone wild for it but it doesn't even get a mention in the media and you don't hear people going around complaining and looking for it to be cancelled.

yeehaw

The craic looks good. Fair play to them.

BhoscaCapall

yeehaw wrote: »

The craic looks good. Fair play to them.

This.

Supermacs must have made an absolute mint, their bouncers got to kick the crap out of a fair few students, everyone else had the craic. Everyone's happy really. Well apart from any clown who thought 'cancelling' it would do anything.

Zzippy

Kendrick Harsh Electricity wrote: »

What is it with the media and rag week in Galway. UCC rag week was on a few weeks ago and the place was gone wild for it but it doesn't even get a mention in the media and you don't hear people going around complaining and looking for it to be cancelled.

The only mention I've heard of it anywhere this week is on this thread. Nothing on RTE, nothing in the papers. The GTI gazette is hardly mainstream media now. Can you provide links to any other media coverage this week?

Granted there might (and should) be a bit more coverage after last night's shenanigans in Supermacs, but the rest of the week seems to have gone fairly peacefully compared to last year.

CiaranMT

Kendrick Harsh Electricity wrote: »

What is it with the media and rag week in Galway. UCC rag week was on a few weeks ago and the place was gone wild for it but it doesn't even get a mention in the media and you don't hear people going around complaining and looking for it to be cancelled.

There's going wild and then there's what happened in Supermacs last night.


That's just feckin' mental.

Lukker-

In fairness, what the fúck were Supermacs thinking letting that many people in.

Asking for trouble.

I doubt they care either way though, still sold plenty of snackboxes.

Bobeagleburger

The Joe Duffy mob won't like this carry on

?Cee?view

yeehaw wrote: »

The craic looks good. Fair play to them.

Sad...

Bobeagleburger

churchview wrote: »

Sad...

Students in having fun shocker...

cappichino

Oh to be young again without a care in the world !

?Cee?view

rarnes1 wrote: »

Students in having fun shocker...

I had loads of fun when I was a student, drank far too much and never had to cause virtual riots. I made a mess of myself, not others.

Anyway, my "sad" reference was to the poster saying fair play to them, rather than to the students directly.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

I suppose if they didn't damage Supermacs it would be grand, no harm no foul.

But why were they singing 'up the ra' and 'the huns are going bust'?! I wouldn't associate that 'type' with NUIG back in my day, have the points dropped across the board or something?!

biko

Someone posted a vid in NUIG about a flare being lit in a crowd outside Suprmacs (where else...), looks pretty dangerous.

KittyeeTrix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7e59pwrUM

I can only hope that the culprits are caught and punished severly. Could have done some serious damage to someone:(

starbucks.

the college went about it the wrong way by cancelling it, because all it has done has pushed it all into town. they should have tried to make people want to stay and drink in the college bar and have more stuff on in the college. Problem with recent years isnt the student, its having the kids in leaving cert and random scumbags who jump on the band wagon, but getting rid of rag week alltogether has just resulted in a gmit+nuig fake ragweek non of which stays on campus

connemara man

starbucks. wrote: »

the college went about it the wrong way by cancelling it, because all it has done has pushed it all into town. they should have tried to make people want to stay and drink in the college bar and have more stuff on in the college. Problem with recent years isnt the student, its having the kids in leaving cert and random scumbags who jump on the band wagon, but getting rid of rag week alltogether has just resulted in a gmit+nuig fake ragweek non of which stays on campus

and its also brought less accountability to the whole thing, when things go badly

Little My

Surely any pubs running events or promotions which abet this behaviour should be held responsible?

And the university should still act on expelling any students arrested in the fracas.

Edit - why can't our students be more like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMsydvwtrRE

Slightly surreal though?

celty

Amazing how people who can afford to be locked out of their minds at 3 in the morning outside Supermac's, roaring their heads off in celebration cos some idiot let off a flare, can be the paragons of virtue we see complaining about college fees and the financial hardships they have to endure.

I do think the particular pub that advertised a piss-up starting at 11am on a Tuesday, which later that day had to be shut down by Gardai, should be penalised in some way for actually trying to take advantage of the 'official' Rag Week being cancelled this year.

ciano1

celty wrote: »

I do think the particular pub that advertised a piss-up starting at 11am on a Tuesday, which later that day had to be shut down by Gardai, should be penalised in some way for actually trying to take advantage of the 'official' Rag Week being cancelled this year.

Pub trying to make money during a recession? :eek:
Somebody call Joe!

ben.schlomo

celty wrote: »

Amazing how people who can afford to be locked out of their minds at 3 in the morning outside Supermac's, roaring their heads off in celebration cos some idiot let off a flare, can be the paragons of virtue we see complaining about college fees and the financial hardships they have to endure.

I do think the particular pub that advertised a piss-up starting at 11am on a Tuesday, which later that day had to be shut down by Gardai, should be penalised in some way for actually trying to take advantage of the 'official' Rag Week being cancelled this year.

Yawn!!!

Mars Bar

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

This.

Supermacs must have made an absolute mint, their bouncers got to kick the crap out of a fair few students, everyone else had the craic. Everyone's happy really. Well apart from any clown who thought 'cancelling' it would do anything.

Any profits Supermac's made will be spent on fixing the ceiling and cleaning up the place.

ben.schlomo

Mars Bar wrote: »

Any profits Supermac's made will be spent on fixing the ceiling and cleaning up the place.

Im sure they were very much well cleaned up by the time they opened this morning. When i was 18/19/20 every night ended up outside Supermacs with th swathes of other young people, there were plenty of fights there down the years, plenty of arrests too. Its all part of these people growing up. People would really want to just get over it with the over reactions. Not aiming it at you Mars Bar.

cena

I would love for the guards to arrest some of the students for staring the riots. Are they not meant to be manture people at there age

the keen edge

cena wrote: »

I would love for the guards to arrest some of the students for staring the riots. Are they not meant to be manture people at there age

Pretty tame riot.

cena

the keen edge wrote: »

Pretty tame riot.

so it may have been but thats not the point. But supermacs should better than letting the place over fill.

JONJO THE MISER

Looked good craic last night.

WesternNight

Do people live above any of those shops I wonder?

I pity any visitors to Galway who happened to be staying in the Imperial this week....

ben.schlomo

WesternNight wrote: »

Do people live above any of those shops I wonder?

I pity any visitors to Galway who happened to be staying in the Imperial this week....

There are no apartments in the Supermacs part of the square so you can sleep sound in that knowledge.

ben.schlomo

cena wrote: »

I would love for the guards to arrest some of the students for staring the riots. Are they not meant to be manture people at there age

Mature students are mature, 18/19 year olds tend not be very mature, way of the world really.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Fair headin for the next rag week,

looks like some buzz