What Does Galway Need???

ted2767 · 05-02-2011 3:28am

More trees
More decent places to go out less kips like the front door buskers etc they're all the same
better choince of places to eat at the moment there's only about 3/4 decent places to eat
A roof

Fionn MacCool · 05-02-2011 3:45am

It would be nice if Galway City had a big park. Like the one by Wards (Millennium Park?) but bigger.

ted2767 wrote: »

More decent places to go out less kips like the front door buskers etc they're all the same

You could have picked better examples of 'kips'. Galway is one of the best places to go out in the country.. sheesh.

softmee · 05-02-2011 12:04pm

inisboffin wrote: »

Here's an interesting article on the 'Ivy - good or bad' debate.

I think i've used the wrong word, it not an ivy exactly, i mean something like this :

http://www.cyberfoto.pl/galeria/showphoto.php?photo=12071

Dont know the english name of it, but i see a lot of it here.

ted2767 · 06-02-2011 12:19am

Fionn MacCool wrote: »

It would be nice if Galway City had a big park. Like the one by Wards (Millennium Park?) but bigger.

You could have picked better examples of 'kips'. Galway is one of the best places to go out in the country.. sheesh.

If by palaces like the crane or roisin then yeah they're up with the rest of the country, if however you think the front door or buskers are amongst the best places to go out in the country then you need to get out of galway a bit more more.

Fionn MacCool · 06-02-2011 12:24am

ted2767 wrote: »

If by palaces like the crane or roisin then yeah they're up with the rest of the country, if however you think the front door or buskers are amongst the best places to go out in the country then you need to get out of galway a bit more more.

That's clearly a matter of personal taste. I don't drink in the Front Door much and Buskers definitely isn't my type of place, but they're both popular pubs.

Mrs OBumble · 06-02-2011 4:17pm

snubbleste wrote: »

Digital Park in Salthill?

I was gonna say that. Technically it's called Quincentennial Park, I think.

Mrs OBumble · 06-02-2011 4:20pm

churchview wrote: »

Completely agree. In contrast to Dublin, for instance, Galway is virtually treeless. When they do plant the odd tree, they plant specimens that are far too immature to have a decent chance of survival when they're left relatively unattended.

Been to Barna Woods lately? Or Merlin Park woods? Or Roscam (Aunteen and Uncleen if you want to call it that) Woods? The latter are a short 15 minute bus-ride from the city centre.

churchview wrote: »

Areas such as Westside, Eyre Square, Headford Road etc. could be significantly improved with a bit of tree planting.

Totally agree with this bit though.

Mrs OBumble · 06-02-2011 4:23pm

drum! wrote: »

Wonder how long 20 saplings would last in Westside..

If they were planted by the right (ie scariest!) people, they'd last a very long time.

softmee · 06-02-2011 5:48pm

JustMary wrote: »

Been to Barna Woods lately? Or Merlin Park woods? Or Roscam (Aunteen and Uncleen if you want to call it that) Woods? The latter are a short 15 minute bus-ride from the city center

Both Barna and Merlin Woods are not really what you would call "city trees" and they are very untended and full of litter.

Amhran Nua · 06-02-2011 10:01pm

JustMary wrote: »

If they were planted by the right (ie scariest!) people, they'd last a very long time.

We had saplings planted in our area some years back, before I moved in, and the residents told me that drunken med students destroyed them with hurleys. Twice! Its not the locals who are the hazard in westside, mostly.

softmee · 06-02-2011 10:36pm

I've just seen today some dickheads hanging, kicking and trying to brake one small tree and there was about 10 of them (age about 15-17). I knew, whatever i will say i will just hear f... off and thats it and then Garda car appeared from nowhere -i thought ok, they will stop and do something about it. They just passed.... :mad: