Campers on the prom?

Rob! · 06-05-2015 12:26pm #1

I go running on the prom 5 mornings a week and have noticed that for the past 3 weeks there has been an ever increasing group of people camping near the football club. These people obviously aren't backpacker types and seem to be irish people that have decided to take up semi-permanent residence there. Whats the deal? Also saw them camping (but since moved) across from the spanish arch on that walkway that leads towards the claddagh?

I hate to be that person that moans about this stuff, but everyday i pass tourists looking baffled by it, as it spoils scenic photo opportunities. It just looks bad. If you wanna camp fine, but isn't one night enough? Otherwise go to a campsite. /rant

thesandeman · 06-05-2015 12:37pm

Back in the day, 'The Swamp' was accepted as an address by Social Welfare when signing on. Not far too go to the Claddagh Bank either

inisboffin · 06-05-2015 12:39pm

Rob! wrote: »

I go running on the prom 5 mornings a week and have noticed that for the past 3 weeks there has been an ever increasing group of people camping near the football club. These people obviously aren't backpacker types and seem to be irish people that have decided to take up semi-permanent residence there. Whats the deal? Also saw them camping (but since moved) across from the spanish arch on that walkway that leads towards the claddagh?

I hate to be that person that moans about this stuff, but everyday i pass tourists looking baffled by it, as it spoils scenic photo opportunities. It just looks bad. If you wanna camp fine, but isn't one night enough? Otherwise go to a campsite. /rant

It's a combination of foreign backpackers and Irish from what I see. Maybe I'm odd but I think the tents look quite nice in the distance. Are they being a nuisance to people or littering? Those are the two things that would bother me much more.

Mrs OBumble · 06-05-2015 12:43pm

Rob! wrote: »

I hate to be that person that moans about this stuff, but everyday i pass tourists looking baffled by it, as it spoils scenic photo opportunities. It just looks bad. If you wanna camp fine, but isn't one night enough? Otherwise go to a campsite. /rant

Where's the nearest campsite that they could go to?

ronnie3585 · 06-05-2015 1:12pm

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Where's the nearest campsite that they could go to?

Salthill.

Rob! · 06-05-2015 2:05pm

Once it's kept clean I dont mind all that much. It's just my excessively dramatic imagination envisions what became of OccupyGalway on Eyre Square a few years back. And that was not a pretty site.

maki · 06-05-2015 2:41pm

That guy on the middle arch is still there. Last week I saw two lads in a van pull up on the other side of the walkway and start to have a word with him. After a few minutes he started dismantling the tent while they stood there watching. The next day he was back again.

JONJO THE MISER · 06-05-2015 6:30pm

This issue is on corrie tonight.

snubbleste · 06-05-2015 6:34pm

Are they local homeless? foreign homeless? tourists? just people who like tents?

thesandeman · 07-05-2015 5:14am

It's a new trend called Galping.
It's very intense.

beardybrewer · 07-05-2015 2:09pm

5 tents this morning. All very small backpacker type tents. No rubbish or reason to worry I could see. I suspect the guards would move them along if they cause fuss.