Town disgusting yesterday evening

Notch000

I was out for a walk round town yesterday. Spanish arch and eyre square were a total disaster zone. Every bin in town was overflowing with take away bags cans bottle and bottle, its lucky there are no tourist round to witness this s**t

Supermac, boojum, off licences and XiAn were main source of litter, should these guys be help responsible for there waste or is it just the council asleep on the job ?? it not going to be the individual responsibility failing any sort of litter enforcement from the council

keithkk16

It's crows doing all the damage. The rubbish would stay in the bins if there was no crows about. Same thing happens all the time at this time of year

Odyssey 2005

Notch000 wrote: »

I was out for a walk round town yesterday. Spanish arch and eyre square were a total disaster zone. Every bin in town was overflowing with take away bags cans bottle and bottle, its lucky there are no tourist round to witness this s**t

Supermac, boojum, off licences and XiAn were main source of litter, should these guys be help responsible for there waste or is it just the council asleep on the job ?? it not going to be the individual responsibility failing any sort of litter enforcement from the council

That's some post.

JustAThought

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

That's some post.

Businesses pay enough council rates and commercial taxes based on the vlue of the properties they rent -
sure bins get full but the council should be on top of it and have a 24 hour ( or 20 hour!) contracter on duty to empty them into a caged bin lorry - it is a high density public area in a supposed beauty spot and high concentration tourism area. Im sick of sloppy work by lazy councils who tax everything and deliver very little of the everyday basics. Same all over this country.

Odyssey 2005

JustAThought wrote: »

Businesses pay enough council rates and commercial taxes based on the vlue of the properties they rent -
sure bins get full but the council should be on top of it and have a 24 hour ( or 20 hour!) contracter on duty to empty them into a caged bin lorry - it is a high density public area in a supposed beauty spot and high concentration tourism area. Im sick of sloppy work by lazy councils who tax everything and deliver very little of the everyday basics. Same all over this country.

Totally agree,however to question whether the named individual fast food outlets should be held accountable is bonkers. First of all they shouldn't be named .

The op says the bins are full...is that the fault of these outlets ?. Obviously people are using the bins,so they can't be blamed. Another poster blames crows . This is on the council,their paid to do a job that their not doing adequately.

Whereisgalway

Sounds like the CC need to set up a meeting to organise an agenda for proposals to allocate a slot for potential availability of a meeting to discuss ways of blaming someone else

whisky_galore

Oh please won't someone think of the tourists.

zell12

Plenty of peeps putting household rubbish in them too.
Council sanitation workers deserve praise for keeping the place as clean as it is

As stated, it is our own behaviour causing this

Odyssey 2005

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Sounds like the CC need to set up a meeting to organise an agenda for proposals to allocate a slot for potential availability of a meeting to discuss ways of blaming someone else

This could possibly be credited to most COCo's in the country.

gordongekko

keithkk16 wrote: »

It's crows doing all the damage. The rubbish would stay in the bins if there was no crows about. Same thing happens all the time at this time of year

Mike and Ollie ??

Mrs OBumble

keithkk16 wrote: »

It's crows doing all the damage. The rubbish would stay in the bins if there was no crows about. Same thing happens all the time at this time of year

Nope.

With all food business restricted to takeaway, and extra packaging on takeaway food to ensure hygiene, there is a higher-than-normal volume of rubbish being generated during each day.

If people ate in at the restaurant then the restaurant would get rid of the rubbish. But they cannot be expected to clean the whole town.

I wouldn't say that the council is asleep. Just that they underestimated the number of people in town yesterday - it was noticeably busy, and the first time in weeks that I felt uncomfortable about on street social distancing.

Paddico

JustAThought wrote: »

Businesses pay enough council rates and commercial taxes based on the vlue of the properties they rent -
sure bins get full but the council should be on top of it and have a 24 hour ( or 20 hour!) contracter on duty to empty them into a caged bin lorry - it is a high density public area in a supposed beauty spot and high concentration tourism area. Im sick of sloppy work by lazy councils who tax everything and deliver very little of the everyday basics. Same all over this country.

Supermac wouldnt contribute anyway.
Heard he's as tight as two coats of paint

Hoboo

Paddico wrote: »

Supermac wouldnt contribute anyway.
Heard he's as tight as two coats of paint

Must be true so

beardybrewer

Absolutely daft to suggest the restaurants or the council should be held responsible. Public bins are a courtesy not a right. If you buy something that generates rubbish you are responsible... nobody else. If the bins are full take it home with you. If the bottle banks are full come back later or find another bottle bank.

As we are in a period of increased personal responsibility it is disheartening to see entitled muppets blame anyone but themselves for dragging down our city.

biko

Paddico wrote: »

Supermac wouldnt contribute anyway.
Heard he's as tight as two coats of paint

Don't post hearsay, it doesn't reflect well on anyone.

Paddico

Paddico wrote: »

Supermac wouldnt contribute anyway.
Heard he's as tight as two coats of paint

The millions in sponsorship and other initiatives would very much prove the opposite.

blueshark2

Dublin City Council have a nice system for reporting full or damaged bins, so their teams can get alerted and they can prioritise those rather than sticking to a maintenance rotation around all the bins.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1001119217011267

beardybrewer wrote: »

If the bins are full take it home with you.

100% agree with this too though.

Jizique

biko wrote: »

Don't post hearsay, it doesn't reflect well on anyone.

It’s pretty clear from his recent interview with Sarah McInerney on RTÉ that he would be fairly tight with the pennies

Kerry4Gold

Notch000 wrote: »

I was out for a walk round town yesterday. Spanish arch and eyre square were a total disaster zone. Every bin in town was overflowing with take away bags cans bottle and bottle, its lucky there are no tourist round to witness this s**t

Supermac, boojum, off licences and XiAn were main source of litter, should these guys be help responsible for there waste or is it just the council asleep on the job ?? it not going to be the individual responsibility failing any sort of litter enforcement from the council

A good few places are in a right state, and have been for months

Jizique

Jizique wrote: »

It’s pretty clear from his recent interview with Sarah McInerney on RTÉ that he would be fairly tight with the pennies

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/supermac-s-in-five-year-deal-with-galway-gaa-for-2m-1.3499189%3Fmode%3Damp

ben.schlomo

Kerry4Gold wrote: »

A good few places are in a right state, and have been for months

Do elaborate.

Red_Wake

Antonella Alive Season wrote: »

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/supermac-s-in-five-year-deal-with-galway-gaa-for-2m-1.3499189%3Fmode%3Damp

Good to see him pay for someone's uniforms for once.

Whereisgalway

Paddico wrote: »

Supermac wouldnt contribute anyway.
Heard he's as tight as two coats of paint

Opened his fast food chain for a quick buck, won’t be forgotten

Jizique

Antonella Alive Season wrote: »

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/supermac-s-in-five-year-deal-with-galway-gaa-for-2m-1.3499189%3Fmode%3Damp

I kind of figured this might be mentioned; this is controversial, and is covered on s good thread on this site - I understand he gets quite a bit back esp through his hotels, but if interested, check out the Galway gaa thread on the site

DuckSlice

I remember from my college days (a long time ago) a lecturer telling us that there is EU Law that companies are responsible for litter outside their premises. I have no idea if this is true or not or what the ins and outs of the law are. Always thought it was a bit silly that a business could be responsible for someone littering outside.

OP - did you report the state of the place or just be disgusted about it and give out about it on here?

derekshelvin

I put this in the Seagull thread. This was part of Eyre Square yesterday evening at 8.30. That Dublin bin idea is brilliant. Unfortunately it's a minority of people who are causing this and they will never bring their rubbish home with them.

https://imgur.com/a/NvjtftI

Mrs OBumble

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Opened his fast food chain for a quick buck, won’t be forgotten

I see Murty Rabbitts last booking time for serving substantial meals is at 9:30pm. Wonder if they'll get many looking for dinner at that time of the night.

Mrs OBumble

Antonella Alive Season wrote: »

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/supermac-s-in-five-year-deal-with-galway-gaa-for-2m-1.3499189%3Fmode%3Damp

Charges his minimum wage staff for food they don't eat, so he can give the proceeds away to the get-away-with-anything crew. A great lad all round.

ShatterAlan

Notch000 wrote: »

I was out for a walk round town yesterday. Spanish arch and eyre square were a total disaster zone. Every bin in town was overflowing with take away bags cans bottle and bottle, its lucky there are no tourist round to witness this s**t

Supermac, boojum, off licences and XiAn were main source of litter, should these guys be help responsible for there waste or is it just the council asleep on the job ?? it not going to be the individual responsibility failing any sort of litter enforcement from the council

Why the hell should businesses be held accountable for what other people do? They sell someone a burger. That person takes the burger and sits on a bench and eats it and then put the wrapper in the bin or throws it on the ground like a wanker. What responsibility do the business have for what the customer does with the wrapper?


Is Tesco or Aldi responsible for the crap bought at their stores that flytippers dump in bin bags by the side of the road?

ShatterAlan

keithkk16 wrote: »

It's crows doing all the damage. The rubbish would stay in the bins if there was no crows about. Same thing happens all the time at this time of year

Crows my bollocks.


Seaguls are the ones that ransack bins.

gordongekko

derekshelvin wrote: »

I put this in the Seagull thread. This was part of Eyre Square yesterday evening at 8.30. That Dublin bin idea is brilliant. Unfortunately it's a minority of people who are causing this and they will never bring their rubbish home with them.

https://imgur.com/a/NvjtftI

While clearly there is need for additional bins in the area anyone that dumps rubbish like that should be fined

Zzippy

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

I see Murty Rabbitts last booking time for serving substantial meals is at 9:30pm. Wonder if they'll get many looking for dinner at that time of the night.

Plenty of people eat out that late normally. What's your point?

Zzippy

Zzippy wrote: »

Plenty of people eat out that late normally. What's your point?

It’s actually an annoyance for me how early a lot of places close or stop serving food. I eat dinner on a normal weekday evening between 8 and 9pm and I’d often want to eat at 10pm or later especially when away for a weekend etc but in Ireland it’s difficult to get proper sit down food after 9 a lot of the time I find.

Mrs OBumble

Zzippy wrote: »

Plenty of people eat out that late normally. What's your point?

WhereIsGalway made a snipe about someone opening his restaurants as soon as possible to make a quick buck.

My point is that many businesses have opened as soon as they possibly could - and that one which WIG is know to favour is actively advertising a behaviour (seating people for dinner at 9:30pm) suggestive of the same "quick buck" mentality.

Previously, very few restaurants would seat you after 9pm

At the moment, it's like the whole town has moved to an earlier timeframe - some cafes close by 3pm, most shops are closing by 5:30pm (many earlier). Remains to be seen if that will continue, but very few of the restaurant-pubs have made statements about closing times so far.

Whereisgalway

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

WhereIsGalway made a snipe about someone opening his restaurants as soon as possible to make a quick buck.

My point is that many businesses have opened as soon as they possibly could - and that one which WIG is know to favour is actively advertising a behaviour (seating people for dinner at 9:30am) suggestive of the same "quick buck" mentality.
r.

I do but up early but I’d hardly eat my dinner before my breakfast

For the recorded MOB I don’t favour any establishment over any other. I look for value and quality service over anything.

derekshelvin

Here are some pictures of what is not helping. People intentionally feeding birds (and in turn rats), weak bin bags that large birds open and overflowing bins that should either be bigger or emptied more often. They're full by 4pm some days with no collection until 5am next morning.

Look at the state of the bird droppings around all those oats stains all over the city. I didn't even know that was going on until recently. And we all pay council tax to keep our city clean while this happens. Jesus wept.

If those 3 things got addressed it would make our city much cleaner.

gordongekko

derekshelvin wrote: »

Here are some pictures of what is not helping. People intentionally feeding birds (and in turn rats), weak bin bags that large birds open and overflowing bins that should either be bigger or emptied more often. They're full by 4pm some days with no collection until 5am next morning.

Look at the state of the bird droppings around all those oats stains all over the city. I didn't even know that was going on until recently. And we all pay council tax to keep our city clean while this happens. Jesus wept.

If those 3 things got addressed it would make our city much cleaner.

So people disposing of their rubbish correctly and 1 person with issues feeding the pigeons has caused a problem that is experienced is most major coastal cities in europe.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Nope.

With all food business restricted to takeaway, and extra packaging on takeaway food to ensure hygiene, there is a higher-than-normal volume of rubbish being generated during each day.

If people ate in at the restaurant then the restaurant would get rid of the rubbish. But they cannot be expected to clean the whole town.

I wouldn't say that the council is asleep. Just that they underestimated the number of people in town yesterday - it was noticeably busy, and the first time in weeks that I felt uncomfortable about on street social distancing.

Or if - you know, radical idea coming in here - people actually took their rubbish home with them? I mean, if the bin is ****ing full, DON'T try and cram it in, thus knocking five other boxes on the ground and don't tbrow it on ground beside the bin either!

You can always tell exaclty how people feel abotu their home city by how the approach full rubbish bins with rusbbish of their own.

Whereisgalway

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Or if - you know, radical idea coming in here - people actually took their rubbish home with them? I mean, if the bin is ****ing full, DON'T try and cram it in, thus knocking five other boxes on the ground and don't tbrow it on ground beside the bin either!

You can always tell exaclty how people feel abotu their home city by how the approach full rubbish bins with rusbbish of their own.

How about the council empty them more often and have more of them

Laviski

Whereisgalway wrote: »

How about the council empty them more often and have more of them

council did have more of them but took them away.

Mrs OBumble

Whereisgalway wrote: »

How about the council empty them more often and have more of them

Are your rates payments up to date?

Whereisgalway

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Are your rates payments up to date?

They are indeed, Are yours?

derekshelvin

derekshelvin wrote: »

Here are some pictures of what is not helping. People intentionally feeding birds (and in turn rats), weak bin bags that large birds open and overflowing bins that should either be bigger or emptied more often. They're full by 4pm some days with no collection until 5am next morning.

Look at the state of the bird droppings around all those oats stains all over the city. I didn't even know that was going on until recently. And we all pay council tax to keep our city clean while this happens. Jesus wept.

If those 3 things got addressed it would make our city much cleaner.

I agree on the bin bags. Why the council dont enforce anti-bird bags or wheelie bins I don't know. They have these anti bird bags in Edinburgh.

But on the pictures of the pigeons feeding that's being done by ONE person. The woman <SNIP BY MODERATOR>

She walks up town daily and throws oats all over the place. Really annoys me about her as shes feeding pests.

Mrs OBumble

gilberto_eire wrote: »

I agree on the bin bags. Why the council dont enforce anti-bird bags or wheelie bins I don't know. They have these anti bird bags in Edinburgh

Some of us live in apartments with no outdoor space at ground level. We simply cannot do bins.

Mrs OBumble

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Some of us live in apartments with no outdoor space at ground level. We simply cannot do bins.

Apartments have communal rubbish storage in most cases.

Tbh, I've never seen an apartment block without them.

Is this actually the case? Where there are a load of apartments but no communal waste facilities for those apartments. Very strange if that's the case

derekshelvin

https://extra.ie/2019/11/19/news/irish-news/a-pensioner-prosecuted-feeding-pigeons

It's all about taking a variety of measures. Do I think preventing ONE individual from walking the city at least 3 times a day to spread oats for lots of birds and rats will help?

Yes.

Dublin City Council had a man prosecuted in January (article above) for feeding pigeons outside his home. What's happening in Galway is drastically worse and is not being dealt with.

You cannot walk down Shop Street without darting out of the way of birds eating these oats and food discarded beside full bins.

Bigger bins emptied more often will help too.

mick087

On my road we have a issue with seagulls and bins.

The mess that they make is unbelievable.
Sometimes you walk up the road and it is like a war zome if you seen it you wouldnt believe it was the seagulls.
Its got worse during lockdown because so much more rubbish was being created and more bins overflowed.

We had a meeting of the road and we discovered that sea gulls are a proteced species, this year they had baby seagulls and they was attacking people coming home. I had no idea sea giulls could be such a bloody nuisance.

derekshelvin

mick087 wrote: »

On my road we have a issue with seagulls and bins.

The mess that they make is unbelievable.
Sometimes you walk up the road and it is like a war zome if you seen it you wouldnt believe it was the seagulls.
Its got worse during lockdown because so much more rubbish was being created and more bins overflowed.

We had a meeting of the road and we discovered that sea gulls are a proteced species, this year they had baby seagulls and they was attacking people coming home. I had no idea sea giulls could be such a bloody nuisance.

Have you raised this with City Council or the local newspapers?

derekshelvin

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Are your rates payments up to date?

Please don't be making condescending comments where people are trying to solve some local issues, wrong thread for that.


https://extra.ie/2019/11/19/news/irish-news/a-pensioner-prosecuted-feeding-pigeons

It's all about taking a variety of measures. Do I think preventing ONE individual from walking the city at least 3 times a day to spread oats for lots of birds and rats will help?

Yes.

Dublin City Council had a man prosecuted in January (article above) for feeding pigeons outside his home. What's happening in Galway is drastically worse and is not being dealt with.

You cannot walk down Shop Street without darting out of the way of birds eating these oats and food discarded beside full bins.

Bigger bins emptied more often will help too.

Storm 10

derekshelvin wrote: »

Have you raised this with City Council or the local newspapers?

They won't do anything as they are protected Gulls never had nests in Cities always near the sea like Mutton Island now they nest in Cities as like I have said lots of times we have destroyed their food source with overfishing, we are the problem as well leaving out waste food in plastic bags

mick087

derekshelvin wrote: »

Have you raised this with City Council or the local newspapers?

I believe it was raised with the council and thats how we found out that seagulls especially baby seagulls are protected. Advice given was dont feed or water them as they have to learn to fly which was of no help to our issue
It seems to be quiet now the babyones have gone within the last few weeks id say.
Apparently there is someone coming to look at the issue so we dont get the same problem with the baby seagulls next year.