RAG Week 2014

ciano1

It's terrible Joe....

snubbleste

Dunnygawl Toosdai

Wompa1

Sure without the students, there'd be no jobs. You shouldn't be disgusted when they piss and puke on your doorstep, you should make sure they are alright and buy them a breakfast roll.

reap-a-rat

On my way into NUIG at 9am, had to go via town as opposed to my usual route - I met so many Donegal-shirted people on their way in to town. AT 9AM!!! Sure, let them off. Just hope there's no trouble.

Mrs OBumble

Wearing a Donegal shirt should be declared a crime against humanity. (Unless you're actually in Donegal.)

Fitz*

I remember back when I was in college, Hole in the Wall was actually a regular of mine so we went there a good bit. I was there for one of the first Donegal Tuesdays, when it was actually just for people from Donegal in college in Galway. I just happened to be there the same day. Nothing out of the ordinary for RAG Week days. RAG Week days there were brilliant and never any trouble in the years I was there. That Donegal Tuesday day was great to be fair, for everyone.

The only trouble I have seen in relation to this day have been the last 3 years (2012 +2013), both which happened to have 5/6 bus loads of people coming down from Donegal for the day. Coincidence? I'll let you make up your own mind... In my opinion, a lot of the trouble brewed from 'foreigners' (ie non NUIG students) coming in for the day, and not giving a siht really what happened as they would be gone again that night or the following morning. Not their mess to clean up.

sammyjo90

There is a queue to get in to the hole in the wall..all the way round to eddie rockets...there isnt even enough room for that many people outside that pub!

zarquon

sammyjo90 wrote: »

There is a queue to get in to the hole in the wall..all the way round to eddie rockets...there isnt even enough room for that many people outside that pub!

Before 11am too and people still insist that the Irish do not have alcohol problems :rolleyes:

Glad to see the students are not suffering from the recession with all their disposable income which will be drank this week. How is it that i know people in full time jobs that cannot afford to drink as much as some students who go out several nights a week!

I'm all for personal responsibility though and i would suggest heavy fines for anyone caught breaching the peace or creating a public disturbance this week as a disincentive.

God help the nurses and doctors working A&E this week having to deal with hoardes of idiots who cannot handle their alcohol by lacking the maturity to drink responsibly.

muppetkiller

zarquon wrote: »

Glad to see the students are not suffering from the recession with all their disposable income which will be drank this week.
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To be fair the recession is over ya know. And even in the 90's we had no money but there was always the grant and Student loans for Rag Week. Heaven forbid some of them might have a part-time job.

The 11am trip to the pub is not new either. The only difference is we had a bit of self-respect and wouldn't queue for a kip like the Hole in the Wall.

For the record I hate Rag week now as an working adult and was already greeted this morning with a lake of Puke outside my front door. But Students will be Students...and there's always going to be some that will ruin it for the whole Student Population. I'm just hoping there's no parents who will lose their young sons/daughters this week due to that Retarded neknomination.

ben.schlomo

zarquon wrote: »

Before 11am too and people still insist that the Irish do not have alcohol problems :rolleyes:

Glad to see the students are not suffering from the recession with all their disposable income which will be drank this week. How is it that i know people in full time jobs that cannot afford to drink as much as some students who go out several nights a week!

I'm all for personal responsibility though and i would suggest heavy fines for anyone caught breaching the peace or creating a public disturbance this week as a disincentive.

God help the nurses and doctors working A&E this week having to deal with hoardes of idiots who cannot handle their alcohol by lacking the maturity to drink responsibly.

going out for many students now consists of staying at home drinking until after twelve and then bringing a naggin into a nightclub or pub for an hour and a half,not really gonna set you back much.

zarquon

muppetkiller wrote: »

To be fair the recession is over ya know. And even in the 90's we had no money but there was always the grant and Student loans for Rag Week. Heaven forbid some of them might have a part-time job.

The grant should not be a subsidy for Student drinking culture. It seriously p1sses me off to see some people complain about the student grants not being enough to fund their education and some of those same people partially using it then as a weekend entertainment fund. The grant was designed as an education enabler not an entertainment lifestyle support mechanism.

muppetkiller wrote: »

I'm just hoping there's no parents who will lose their young sons/daughters this week due to that Retarded neknomination.

This is a fair point, there could be some fairly OTT shenanigans this week due to neknomination. I know 2 lads who were admitted to hospital due to alcohol poisoning caused by their neknomination. One was in a coma for a while. Immaturity+large volumes of alcohol = Stupidy on a grand scale.

I don't want to sound cruel but i do wonder if people hurting themselves in such situations is just darwinism at play and the question remains will we see any darwin awards candidates this week around Galway.

ben.schlomo wrote: »

going out for many students now consists of staying at home drinking until after twelve and then bringing a naggin into a nightclub or pub for an hour and a half,not really gonna set you back much.

So what the hundreds of students that fill the pubs during the late evenings? There are plenty who still go out regularly, those who are broke or close to broke will do as you say so the point remains if you are totally broke as a student, is it not stupid to be buyings naggins regularly and still hitting the clubs. When i was a student i couldn't afford to go out, the grant was a lot smaller back then and i didn't have parents to subsidise me nor would the bank.

It sickens me the atitude that peoples are owed funding from the taxpayer and then waste it away.

I know of one guy who was b1tching incessantly about the delay in his grant and as soon as he eventually got it went out and bought a large screen TV straight away and partied that weekend like it was his last few days on earth. Needless to say a few months later he was penniless again and b1tching once again about the grant/government/banks, etc and that the grant should be increased!

grainnereills

Like this is a seriously dangerous situation, reminiscent of what happened in Coppers a few weeks ago.

Animals!

Why did the staff continue to force the barricades closed, when the crowd had lost all control?

How no one was seriously hurt!

Any Gardaí in sight?

ben.schlomo

zarquon wrote: »

The grant should not be a subsidy for Student drinking culture. It seriously p1sses me off to see some people complain about the student grants not being enough to fund their education and some of those same people partially using it then as a weekend entertainment fund. The grant was designed as an education enabler not an entertainment lifestyle support mechanism.



This is a fair point, there could be some fairly OTT shenanigans this week due to neknomination. I know 2 lads who were admitted to hospital due to alcohol poisoning caused by their neknomination. One was in a coma for a while. Immaturity+large volumes of alcohol = Stupidy on a grand scale.

I don't want to sound cruel but i do wonder if people hurting themselves in such situations is just darwinism at play and the question remains will we see any darwin awards candidates this week around Galway.



So what the hundreds of students that fill the pubs during the late evenings? There are plenty who still go out regularly, those who are broke or close to broke will do as you say so the point remains if you are totally broke as a student, is it not stupid to be buyings naggins regularly and still hitting the clubs. When i was a student i couldn't afford to go out, the grant was a lot smaller back then and i didn't have parents to subsidise me nor would the bank.

It sickens me the atitude that peoples are owed funding from the taxpayer and then waste it away.

I know of one guy who was b1tching incessantly about the delay in his grant and as soon as he eventually got it went out and bought a large screen TV straight away and partied that weekend like it was his last few days on earth. Needless to say a few months later he was penniless again and b1tching once again about the grant/government/banks, etc and that the grant should be increased!

What pubs are you in that are full in the evenings? After 11 or 12 the later venues are busy but pubs around town arent thronged with students 7 nights a week.
If they can afford to go out then thats their business, its not something id be doing at 10am on a Tuesday and if they are stupid enough to do something which will end up with them in bother then im sure they'll be dealt with, other than that its not really an issue as far as i can see. No different to Paddys Day, Arthurs Day, Race Week etc etc.

abbir

grainnereills wrote: »

Storm 10

Why did the staff continue to force the barricades closed, when the crowd had lost all control?

How no one was seriously hurt!

Any Gardaí in sight

According to Galway Bay FM the Gardai closed the place down last night as it was getting out of hand

WallyGUFC

grainnereills wrote: »

Like this is a seriously dangerous situation, reminiscent of what happened in Coppers a few weeks ago.

Animals!

Why did the staff continue to force the barricades closed, when the crowd had lost all control?

How no one was seriously hurt!

Any Gardaí in sight?

A problem easily fixed by having numerous bouncers in the queue and splitting the queue into segments, as Carbon often do. Can hardly blame drunken people for poor management of the queue in fairness.

grainnereills

WallyGUFC wrote: »

A problem easily fixed by having numerous bouncers in the queue and splitting the queue into segments, as Carbon often do. Can hardly blame drunken people for poor management of the queue in fairness.

No.

But who would stay in a heaving mass like that.

Stupid.

Herd mentality.

snubbleste

Note the Garda camera in the top right -it works!

zarquon

WallyGUFC wrote: »

A problem easily fixed by having numerous bouncers in the queue and splitting the queue into segments, as Carbon often do. Can hardly blame drunken people for poor management of the queue in fairness.

Yes, let not blame those displaying idiot drunken behaviour. Let's instead blame businesses and Gardai for not correctly managing drunken people.

While your at it, lets blame Galway City Council for all the piss and puke we will see this week instead of the culprits as clearly it will the councils fault for not providing portaloos and buckets every 100 metres. Can hardly expect drunken people to control themselves in fairness :rolleyes:

muppetkiller

snubbleste wrote: »

Note the Garda camera in the top right -it works!

Except the businesses are blocked off and the Public have no access to the footpath. Disabled people will also not be able to get up the street. Cannot see how it's legal personally.

dropping_bombs

With regards to grant money being spent on alcohol; the vast majority of students from Donegal are grant recipients are will save up this "educational aid" for use as drink money throughout the year. Tonight will be a mess before 8pm with these people stumbling about the place.

Another thing, before all students get painted with the same brush I am in the college library now ,and should be studying , the place is packed. A few clowns make a lot of noise and all of us end up getting tarred with the same brush, not too fair.

Fitz*

Love the way all students get tarred with the same brush here.

I'm not a student anymore, and I didn't receive the grant either but going by this thread, every student is a lout who wastes the taxpayers money by getting the grant and spending it all on this one week. I worked weekends all through college & duly spent that money every Monday, Wednesday & Thursday night. Do I regret any of it? No. They were my 'weekends', just like now I work Monday - Friday and duly spend that money on Friday & Saturday nights.

I've probably been in worse states in terms of drunkenness as a 'tax-paying adult' than I have been as a student since then too.

I'm not a fan of neknomination either myself (just bored by it after I watched 2) but blaming the 'game' entirely is stupid. It was actually a good idea imo in it's original form, it's the stupid idiots that took it too far that should be chastised, not the 'game'.

WallyGUFC

zarquon wrote: »

Yes, let not blame those displaying idiot drunken behaviour. Let's instead blame businesses and Gardai for not correctly managing drunken people.

While your at it, lets blame Galway City Council for all the piss and puke we will see this week instead of the culprits as clearly it will the councils fault for not providing portaloos and buckets every 100 metres. Can hardly expect drunken people to control themselves in fairness :rolleyes:

Well they know it's going to be a rowdy crowd, everyone knows that. What's easier in your opinion? Stop thousands of drunken people entering the city at the same time or putting more bouncers in the queue with a better plan to deal with it? Electric Garden should have been smarter there.

MadYaker

As a student of NUIG I hate these fúcking idiots who come down to Galway to make sh!t of the place on "donegal tuesday". Its donegal day every day in Donegal so why don't they just stay there the pricks.

RAG week isn't what it was and hasn't been for a good few years now. I wish it would just die out, does nothing but cause trouble for the student body as a whole.

dr.bollocko

People being drunk is no problem most of the time.

People being drunk and running around like idiots at 5 in the morning chucking bottles, jumping on cars and generally being arseholes is a problem.

So, vast majority of student population = no problem.
Small minority of thick as pigsh1t entitled little fcukers thinking they own the place for a week and have a right to ruin it for everyone is a problem.

But everyone hates these fcukers. It's nothing new.

Wompa1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX8szNPgrEs

We have a perpetual problem of alcohol abuse that costs millions upon millions a year and likely holds many of us back from achieving our full potential. Taking the attitude that "Sure, we were all young once" and "Don't be so dry, it's only a bit of craic" is just helping to keep this moving.

Of course, the really dangerous talk comes when we speak about stemming the flow. How can it be fixed? The older generation leading by example. We've created an environment where socializing 9 times out of 10 will include alcohol, people get drunk in the airports on their way to a holiday destination where they'll spend a week drunk off their asses, Every bank holiday is seen as a chance for an extra night of drinking on the weekend. Part of our marketing for tourists is the fact that we're fun drunks. Family get togethers, involve drinking. Weddings last at least an entire day in Ireland, a good wedding is one that goes until 4, 5 or 6 the next day, funerals include drinking. We drink when we're happy, we drink when we're sad. We drink when the weather is bad and we rush to the pubs when the weather is good.

On the plus side, this is the lost generation. So the drunks we're producing will become Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Americas problem.

antoobrien

dr.bollocko wrote: »

So, vast majority of student population = no problem.
Small minority of thick as pigsh1t entitled little fcukers thinking they own the place for a week and have a right to ruin it for everyone is a problem.

I'd love to know just how many of them actually are students.

I'm article I remember reading during the year about charges that came from the "supermacs riot" last year - a 28 year old that was never to college was up on charges.

Wompa1

Wompa1 wrote: »

We've created an environment where socializing 9 times out of 10 will include alcohol, people get drunk in the airports on their way to a holiday destination where they'll spend a week drunk off their asses, Every bank holiday is seen as a chance for an extra night of drinking on the weekend. Part of our marketing for tourists is the fact that we're fun drunks. Family get togethers, involve drinking. Weddings last at least an entire day in Ireland, a good wedding is one that goes until 4, 5 or 6 the next day, funerals include drinking. We drink when we're happy, we drink when we're sad. We drink when the weather is bad and we rush to the pubs when the weather is good.

And I wouldn't change a bit of it!

on the river

just in eyre square there and the place is full of donegal people . i hope it dosent get out of hand later

Fitz*

Wompa1 wrote: »

people get drunk in the airports on their way to a holiday destination where they'll spend a week drunk off their asses

Them few pints are some of the best pints you'll have!

MadYaker

on the river wrote: »

just in eyre square there and the place is full of donegal people . i hope it dosent get out of hand later

It almost certainly will.

Caliden

I hope the pepper spray is used.

ronnie3585

Caliden wrote: »

I hope the pepper spray is used.

On the Supermacs chicken wings?

GastroBoy

on the river wrote: »

just in eyre square there and the place is full of donegal people . i hope it dosent get out of hand later

No it's not....

on the river

YES THEY ARE

ronnie3585

on the river wrote: »

YES THEY ARE

OOHHHH NOOO THEY'RE NOT!

(and so on)

gordongekko

GastroBoy wrote: »

No it's not....

the cops are probably from Donegal.

on the river

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/donegal-tuesday-sparks-gardai-alert-as-hundreds-of-students-queue-for-galway-pubs-from-early-morning-30020399.html

on the river

LOOK

gordongekko

on the river wrote: »

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/donegal-tuesday-sparks-gardai-alert-as-hundreds-of-students-queue-for-galway-pubs-from-early-morning-30020399.html

after having a look at the 3 pictures, there is always one arsehole

Fitz*

on the river wrote: »

LOOK

Isn't that from like 11 am? It's hardly Eyre Square either.

on the river

FitzShane wrote: »

Isn't that from like 11 am? It's hardly Eyre Square either.

i wonder how bad it is now

intellectual dosser

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Bad news for ya: Only the smart ones, who've escaped the worst alcohol damage will get good jobs that eventually get them permanent residency in those countries. (I'm assuming that signing allegance to the Queen will continue to be such a problem that few will take up citizenship).

The rest of the Donegal Donkeys (to pick on the sub-species that has invaded our city today) will at best see out their working-holiday-visa and then come hope, or at worst get deported either before the visa ends (for alcohol-fuelled crime) or afterwards (as over-stayers).

Just a little bit unfair.

Wompa1

Edward Creamy Paw wrote: »

And I wouldn't change a bit of it!

Of course you wouldn't..

Wompa1

Wompa1 wrote: »

Of course you wouldn't: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=87057407

I don't see the relevance of digging up old posts?

Wompa1

FitzShane wrote: »

Them few pints are some of the best pints you'll have!

Best or Most Expensive? I paid nearly 6 euro for a pint in Dublin Airport. Can't say as though I ever enjoyed drinking on a flight, even when it was free. Planes are boring places to be, being drunk just heightens the boredom. Then some people go over the top and get loud, they don't realize they are being loud. I had a 7 hour flight from Dublin once that felt like 24 hours due to sitting across from two drunk lads. It was as bad as sitting behind the baby row

Wompa1

Edward Creamy Paw wrote: »

I don't see the relevance of digging up old posts?

Fair enough, removed. It was relevant to your statement but whatever...

snubbleste

Now taking bets on Padraig Conneely ranting on the wireless in the morning

Wompa1

snubbleste wrote: »

Now taking bets on Padraig Conneely ranting on the wireless in the morning

Next week he'll be back to having his picture taken in front of some hole in the ground

JONJO THE MISER

Some people need to lighten up, stop curtain watching and get over themselves.
Nothing like a cold creamy pint of a tuesday.

Fitz*

on the river wrote: »

i wonder how bad it is now

I passed through Eyre Square, twice, on the way home from work there around 6ish. Didn't seem any different to any other quiet Saturday, to me anyways.

Wompa1 wrote: »

Best or Most Expensive? I paid nearly 6 euro for a pint in Dublin Airport. Can't say as though I ever enjoyed drinking on a flight, even when it was free. Planes are boring places to be, being drunk just heightens the boredom. Then some people go over the top and get loud, they don't realize they are being loud. I had a 7 hour flight from Dublin once that felt like 24 hours due to sitting across from two drunk lads. It was as bad as sitting behind the baby row

Ah the excitement and all that, it's great! Can't complain about an expensive one when you're getting a lot of cheap ones when you fly away somewhere! I'll admit I've drank a good few times on various flights. One or two I don't really remember ha! But to be fair, the ones I don't remember were all people my age going on holidays so noise to the people around us was not an issue, certainly had no complaints anyways. Or were very short flights.