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Should Eir be allowed remove most payphones?

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  • 15-12-2017 8:46pm
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    Never Say Never Again
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    Eir want to remove 90 percent of the remaining payphone network but comreg are refusing to allow them do this as they belive poor people need payphones. I dont know way comreg think this because using a payphone now costs €2 per min but you can buy a very basic mobile phone in delz for a fiver.


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    lawred2
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    Never Say Never Again wrote: »
    Eir want to remove 90 percent of the remaining payphone network but comreg are refusing to allow them do this as they belive poor people need payphones. I dont know way comreg think this because using a payphone now costs €2 per min but you can buy a very basic mobile phone in delz for a fiver.

    I'd say that the majority of payphone users are criminals.

    I'm not sure what decade comreg are in but it isn't this one.


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    #3
    GetWithIt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭GetWithIt


    The only people who need pay phones are junkies going for a dump.

    Filed under: "The things you see from the top of a double decker bus"


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    Are Am Eye
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    Superheroes


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    the_pen_turner
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    I don't remember the last time I saw a pay phone being used or in a condition that it could be used. they all seem to be broken or used as a toilet


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    Grab All Association
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    At least two payphones with reverse charging is needed in every town. Last Monday during the early hours in Thurles a woman's phone and bag were stolen at a disco in a very famous hotel. She was waiting over 5 hours in the snow for the 9am Nenagh bus wearing only a dress. The hotel apparently her removed by AGS who also wouldn't help her. Will never go to that hotel for lunch again.

    A phone box and reverse calling and she may have got home a lot earlier. I honestly don't know how she survived in that weather.


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    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,181 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    We might as well get rid of all the ringbouys and all those emergency SOS phones by the side of the motorway as well. Sure everyone has new brand new reliable jetskis and mercs now with this new celtic tiger roaring it's head off.


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    Noveight
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    I didn't know there were payphones still operating. There are none left in the towns and villages in my part of the country, can't remember the last time I saw one.


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    Agent Coulson
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    They should do what is done in London and other cities with phone boxes turn them into free public hotspots.


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    Esel
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    "Press Button A, caller!"

    Not your ornery onager



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    mad muffin
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    Back in the day I used to stuff paper up the coin return slot of my local payphone.


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    Gatling
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    Grab All Association wrote: »

    A phone box and reverse calling and she may have got home a lot earlier. I honestly don't know how she survived in that weather.

    Maybe next bring trousers with you ;)
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    boombang
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    As soon as these dirty eyesores can be removed the better. Regarding the woman who needed to make a reverse charge call: who wouldn't let somebody genuinely in need use their landline or mobile.


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    boombang wrote: »
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    As soon as these dirty eyesores can be removed the better. Regarding the woman who needed to make a reverse charge call: who wouldn't let somebody genuinely in need use their landline or mobile.

    I wouldn’t hand over my phone to anyone. Even if they were on fire.

    Hand over a €1300 phone to a complete stranger? Are you mad?


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    colm_mcm
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    €1300 phone, are YOU mad :D


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    mad muffin
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    colm_mcm wrote: »
    €1300 phone, are YOU mad :D

    You say potato I say potato.


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    El Weirdo
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    Grab All Association wrote: »
    At least two payphones with reverse charging is needed in every town. Last Monday during the early hours in Thurles a woman's phone and bag were stolen at a disco in a very famous hotel. She was waiting over 5 hours in the snow for the 9am Nenagh bus wearing only a dress. The hotel apparently her removed by AGS who also wouldn't help her. Will never go to that hotel for lunch again.

    A phone box and reverse calling and she may have got home a lot earlier. I honestly don't know how she survived in that weather.

    Liked and shared.


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    Junkyard Tom
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    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Last Monday during the early hours in Thurles a woman's phone and bag were stolen at a disco in a very famous hotel. She was waiting over 5 hours in the snow for the 9am Nenagh bus wearing only a dress. The hotel apparently her removed by AGS who also wouldn't help her.

    I find this difficult to believe.


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    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    At least two payphones with reverse charging is needed in every town. Last Monday during the early hours in Thurles a woman's phone and bag were stolen at a disco in a very famous hotel. She was waiting over 5 hours in the snow for the 9am Nenagh bus wearing only a dress. The hotel apparently her removed by AGS who also wouldn't help her. Will never go to that hotel for lunch again.

    A phone box and reverse calling and she may have got home a lot earlier. I honestly don't know how she survived in that weather.

    In fairness, the problem here isn't lack of payphones. It's arseholes.


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    frag420
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    mad muffin wrote: »
    You say potato I say potato.

    You know that only works when you say it...


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    Del2005
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    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    I find this difficult to believe.

    +1

    How many people go to nightclubs on their own.

    The other issue is that I doubt many people know anyone's number anymore so even if you have a phone you won't be able to call anyone.


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    Harry Palmr
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    The only phone boxes that should be left are the proper ones and they are essentially national monuments at this stage

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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    frag420 wrote: »
    You know that only works when you say it...

    What? You don’t know how to say potato and potato?


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    Junkyard Tom
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    Del2005 wrote: »
    How many people go to nightclubs on their own.

    How many Hotels kick out a lone woman resident who has been a victim of theft?

    How many cops throw a woman out of a hotel onto the side of the road in a dress, in the snow, with no phone/money.

    This story is a fabrication or distortion.


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    #25
    frag420
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    mad muffin wrote: »
    What? You don’t know how to say potato and potato?

    You say potato, I say shpud!!

    Or chips, sometimes I say chips!


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    boombang
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    Although maybe if she'd had a comfortable phone box to sleep in she'd have been able to get a bit of kip amidst the stench of piss while waiting for the bus.

    I can remember the final year before I had a mobile. Payphones swallowed so much money on me it was a total false economy. It would be idiotic to suggest people should not have a phone to save money. Comreg should do the last remaining luddites a favour and get rid of every last payphone.


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    fritzelly
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    Strange, noticed several phone box around Dublin city that have been stripped clean basically very recently


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    Junkyard Tom
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    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Last Monday during the early hours in Thurles a woman's phone and bag were stolen at a disco in a very famous hotel. She was waiting over 5 hours in the snow for the 9am Nenagh bus wearing only a dress. The hotel apparently her removed by AGS who also wouldn't help her.

    I insist that you voluntarily retract this scurrilous tale Sir.


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    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    I insist that you voluntarily retract this scurrilous tale Sir.

    Bernard Kavanagh/Shamrock bus driver and at least 4 other passengers can vouch for this. One guy who lives on Pallas Street Borrisoleigh gave the girl a loan of his hoody. He wears a green coat and stands at Banba Square Nenagh at 5:50pm most days. Farmer who gets on the bus at 9:15am outside the GAA grounds Borrisoleigh, Monday to Saturday they get on the bus.
    SVP shop in Nenagh (where the girl entered too no doubt to get some clothes I assume )
    There's also CCTV cameras in Liberty Square


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    Junkyard Tom
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    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Bernard Kavanagh/Shamrock bus driver and at least 4 other passengers can vouch for this.

    They can vouch that she told this story.
    One guy who lives on Pallas Street Borrisoleigh gave the girl a loan of his hoody.

    But couldn't give her a loan of his phone so that she could phone a friend?

    I just can't believe that a Hotel would kick out a recently robbed resident in nothing but her dress aided by the Gardai.


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    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    They can vouch that she told this story.



    But couldn't give her a loan of his phone so that she could phone a friend?

    I just can't believe that a Hotel would kick out a recently robbed resident in nothing but her dress aided by the Gardai.

    The driver said to her are you sure you don't want to call someone and she said it was fine. I think the girl who sat talking to her let her text someone.

    That's why I said apparently. I don't know what happened earlier in the hotel. She claimed she refused to leave and they called AGS and they escorted her out. She got on the bus in Liberty Square with nothing on her. She said she left her coat in a friend's car and I assume because her stuff was stolen couldn't retrieve it. Her skin was red raw though and you could tell she was out in the weather for a few hours.


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