The state of the prom.

kinetic · 12-09-2009 6:14pm #1

Im just in from a glorious day out on the beach in salthill,and i cant believe the state of the place.Every bin was full with rubbish and people were just leaving rubbish next to or on top of the bins.I know it was busy today but they were full at 1 oclock. Are the council unable to deal with a sunny day in galway and empty a few bins?
Also the public toilets werent working either.

mikom · 12-09-2009 6:28pm

kinetic wrote: »

Also the public toilets werent working either.

No wonder the bins were full.

happyoutscan · 12-09-2009 6:39pm

Galway county council can't deal with anything.

gary82 · 12-09-2009 6:55pm

Walked along the prom last night and saw a massive rat run across the beach and in under the rocks. Tends to be a lot of rats around the cladagh just before dusk too.

ErnieBert · 12-09-2009 7:53pm

happyoutscan wrote: »

Galway county council can't deal with anything.

It's Galway City Council's patch; i still agree with you though.

Fuinseog · 12-09-2009 7:56pm

kinetic wrote: »

Im just in from a glorious day out on the beach in salthill,and i cant believe the state of the place.Every bin was full with rubbish and people were just leaving rubbish next to or on top of the bins.I know it was busy today but they were full at 1 oclock. Are the council unable to deal with a sunny day in galway and empty a few bins?
Also the public toilets werent working either.

galway is terrible when it comes to public toilets. even in the city there are only three cubicles in the square. completely inadequate. most pubs don't cherish non customers using their toilets.

rubbish bins aren't exactly widespread. Nimo's pier is a lovely place on a sunny evening, but does not have a single rubbish bin.

Fuinseog · 12-09-2009 7:59pm

gary82 wrote: »

Walked along the prom last night and saw a massive rat run across the beach and in under the rocks. Tends to be a lot of rats around the cladagh just before dusk too.

rats are where people are. i swim with the rats and still have to get weil's disease.

Mrs OBumble · 12-09-2009 8:32pm

gary82 wrote: »

Walked along the prom last night and saw a massive rat run across the beach and in under the rocks.

How many legs?

Mrs OBumble · 12-09-2009 8:38pm

Fuinseog wrote: »

galway is terrible when it comes to public toilets. even in the city there are only three cubicles in the square. completely inadequate. most pubs don't cherish non customers using their toilets.

rubbish bins aren't exactly widespread. Nimo's pier is a lovely place on a sunny evening, but does not have a single rubbish bin.

Ireland in general is pretty bad as far as public toilets are concerned. I think the plan is to encourage you to become a customer of one of the establishments around.

Beautiful sunny days are pretty rare, I can kind of understand the council not having the staff, trucks etc standing by just in case they get a lovely day and thus a major increase in the amount of rubbish to be collected.

Perhaps we need a city-code, like the wilderness-code, of "pack it in, pack it out"

Fuinseog · 12-09-2009 8:55pm

JustMary wrote: »

Ireland in general is pretty bad as far as public toilets are concerned. I think the plan is to encourage you to become a customer of one of the establishments around.

Beautiful sunny days are pretty rare, I can kind of understand the council not having the staff, trucks etc standing by just in case they get a lovely day and thus a major increase in the amount of rubbish to be collected.

Perhaps we need a city-code, like the wilderness-code, of "pack it in, pack it out"

some towns especially those that get a lot of tourits have decent public toilets. clifden for example. galway city isn't interested in provding such services.
tourism is important for galway and its safe to say that galwegians make a fortune from tourists. they therefore need to provide adequate staff.

thenakedchef · 12-09-2009 9:48pm

I saw it too,it was an absolute disgrace, anyone visiting galway would certainly be left with an impression

mega man · 12-09-2009 9:53pm

have they drinking fountains along the promenade there?

darrenh · 13-09-2009 9:16am

Fuinseog wrote: »

some towns especially those that get a lot of tourits have decent public toilets. clifden for example. galway city isn't interested in provding such services.
tourism is important for galway and its safe to say that galwegians make a fortune from tourists. they therefore need to provide adequate staff.

We dont have public toilets because people will not respect them and will destroy them as soon as they can.

padi89 · 13-09-2009 10:07am

If the bins are full is it really all that hard for people to bring their rubbish home with them? I can understand there may be a few instances where this is not possible but majority of occasions it should be no problem.Just put it into a carrier bag and take it home with you or hang onto it until you come across a bin that's not full.I know for some people it may be too uncool to be seen carrying a rubbish bag but hey i don't feel exactly cool carry a bag of my dogs mess but at least i bothered to clean up.

Storm 10 · 13-09-2009 11:02am

Walked the prom yesterday and was disgusted with the amount of dog s..t left on it, dog owners just dont care, it was terrible to see it on one of the few fine days we had this summer with so many people walking on the prom with kids, also on the beach was tons of dirty smelly seaweed forcing sunbathers to sit on rocks or the few available spots of sand that were available.

Surely its not beyond reason that Galway City Council would have seen the weather forecast and got out the machines that clean the beaches they would have left a great impression on any visitor to Salthill but as usual we have been let down by the people who run our City all the beaches along the prom were a complete mess no lovely white sand to be seen anywhere.

Document1 · 13-09-2009 11:50am

I live near the bay on Salt Hill but I never realised that those beaches are supposed to be clean

kinetic · 13-09-2009 12:07pm

I was thinking about this again,and its just not good enough.Whoever is in charge of the city council should be interviewed and made explain why the prom was allowed to turn into a sh.t littered walkway for a day.

Fuinseog · 13-09-2009 12:37pm

kinetic wrote: »

I was thinking about this again,and its just not good enough.Whoever is in charge of the city council should be interviewed and made explain why the prom was allowed to turn into a sh.t littered walkway for a day.

you should take pictures and send them into the tribune. better still talk to joe. if galway is shamed nationally action will be taken.

DD67 · 14-09-2009 10:01am

I had to laugh, walking the prom on Saturday and heard sirens coming up behind us down by the tourist office, a fire engine with the blues and twos on pushed its way through the traffic i then saw a squad car up on the foot path at the roundabout. Said to the wife there must be a crash at the roundabout got closer and saw fire firemen two guards standing around a bin that was smoking abit one fire man draws out his hose and proceeds to spray the **** out of the bin. People were standing with there jaws down around there knees in bewilderment and others pissing themselves laughing at this carry on. I wonder does the council get the bill for the fire engine callout or the guards for calling them out. :pac:

happyoutscan · 14-09-2009 10:54am

DD67 wrote: »

I had to laugh, walking the prom on Saturday and heard sirens coming up behind us down by the tourist office, a fire engine with the blues and twos on pushed its way through the traffic i then saw a squad car up on the foot path at the roundabout. Said to the wife there must be a crash at the roundabout got closer and saw fire firemen two guards standing around a bin that was smoking abit one fire man draws out his hose and proceeds to spray the **** out of the bin. People were standing with there jaws down around there knees in bewilderment and others pissing themselves laughing at this carry on. I wonder does the council get the bill for the fire engine callout or the guards for calling them out. :pac:

I seen them whizzing out too and presumed there must have been an accident. Well thankfully there wasn't an accident, but wow aren't they mighty to respond so quickly to what could have been a traumatic incident what with all those rats being killed. :rolleyes:

zell12 · 19-07-2023 12:49pm

Saw a huge rat yesterday running across the Grattan Rd near Fr Burke Rd. I stood there gawping, and then two more smaller ones. Blink and you'd miss them. I assume there is a connection with the sewage plant?

GalwayGaillimh · 19-07-2023 3:40pm

That has to be a record a thread 14 years old ressurected

Storm 10 · 19-07-2023 10:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120870412#Comment_120870412

Nope they are water rats loads of them in the rocks around the prom used to see them when fishing for Mackeral darting in and out of the rocks when I was a young .