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Gardai/Council removing outdoor seating

joeKel73 · 2012-10-24 13:52:10

Just saw the gardai and council officials put all the outdoor seating from La Salsa into the back of a truck. They're now doing it to The Spanish Arch Hotel. I'm guessing they haven't paid some fee?

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24-10-2012 2:52pm

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Just saw the gardai and council officials put all the outdoor seating from La Salsa into the back of a truck. They're now doing it to The Spanish Arch Hotel.

I'm guessing they haven't paid some fee?

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#2 24-10-2012 2:58pm
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Could be related to this:
Public Notice of Decision: Temporary Closing of Roads. Cross Street - 26th, 27th, 28th October 2012
Or they may not have paid a fee to take up part of the street as you said.

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#3 24-10-2012 3:04pm
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My quality of life has improved exponentially since they removed that seating. F*** all this al fresco continental relaxed vibe muck, I want more pavement space for students to vomit and piss all over. Fine work by GCCC and the Gardai.

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#4 24-10-2012 3:32pm
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The Galway Aboo Halloween Festival takes place in the medieval streets of Galway's Latin Quarter from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th of October 2012

Probably connected to the Aboo but it's still only Wednesday and it seems using Gardai is just wasting resources.

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#5 24-10-2012 3:34pm
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Don't the restaurants and pubs need licenses and insurance for their outdoor furniture?

If it was down to Aboo they'd lift everyone's furniture.

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#6 24-10-2012 4:18pm
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BhoscaCapall wrote: »

F*** all this al fresco continental relaxed vibe muck, I want more pavement space for students to vomit and piss all over. Fine work by GCCC and the Gardai.

They have outside seating at 2 a.m. now? I must have been too buckled to ever notice...

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#7 24-10-2012 4:22pm
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Well one of the lads from the Spanish arch hotel was out asking what was going on and saved a few seats... they passed by most places that had seats out... so I'd say they hadn't paid their licence.

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#8 24-10-2012 4:41pm
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They sent a flash mob out to remove all the sandwich/advertising boards from outside all the pubs and restaurants earlier in the year as well. This is probably something similar.

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#9 24-10-2012 6:32pm
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That's because they were on the footpath, deliberately restricting and obstructing a transportation throughfare.

Joe you should call the Council and ask them why they've removed them.

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#10 24-10-2012 6:36pm
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snubbleste wrote: »

Joe you should call the Council and ask them why they've removed them.

Meh, only being nosey... don't care that much!

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#11 24-10-2012 6:51pm
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Ah you do. Otherwise you would not have started this decorative thread. G'on phone them, they won't bite.

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#12 25-10-2012 11:29pm
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snubbleste wrote: »

Ah you do. Otherwise you would not have started this decorative thread. G'on phone them, they won't bite.

Or answer.

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#13 26-10-2012 12:09am
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grab a chair I'll be with you in a minute gard

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#14 26-10-2012 12:15am
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J o e wrote: »

Just saw the gardai and council officials put all the outdoor seating from La Salsa into the back of a truck. They're now doing it to The Spanish Arch Hotel.

I'm guessing they haven't paid some fee?

... ****in' great - takes two wings of the public service to join forces to try and put hard pressed private businesses out of business who are providing employment, all of whom in turn pay their taxes to pay for the bailiffs!!! :mad:

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#15 26-10-2012 12:22am
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What the fsck does a outdoor seating license have to do with the Gardai?

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#16 26-10-2012 8:01am
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Gardai would not want threatening behaviour from hostelries that were not paying their way and complying.

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#17 26-10-2012 8:25am
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http://www.galwaynews.ie/28492-council-defends-seizure-street-furniture

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#18 27-10-2012 12:22am
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Any chance sending these boys out to joe o'tooles place in tuam?

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#19 27-10-2012 10:02am
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All places involved have seating back outside, didnt last long.

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#20 27-10-2012 10:51am
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As usual the City Council gets to be quoted anonymously in the local press:
A spokesman for the City Council told the Galway City Tribune that the seizures were only made as a “last resort” after repeated letters of warning had been sent to the proprietors.

“The furniture was confiscated as the premises were in breach of Section 71 of the Roads Act and Section 254 of the Planning and Development Act. All four had received a final written warning on July 16 last,” said the City Council spokesman.

He added that the City Council also had a duty of fairness to the many establishments who annually applied for permission to utilise the area in front of their premises for an annual fee.

So it seems that the City Council, along with the Garda Siochana in this case, is willing to rigorously enforce the law when it sees fit.

The City Council, and AGS, do indeed have a "duty of fairness" towards the many compliant, and otherwise affected, citizens.

Pity they don't apply that ethic across all their law enforcement responsibilities. Perhaps the owners of the four offending premises were outside the definition of "decent people" though...

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#21 27-10-2012 11:41am
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"Cllr Padráig Conneely, the Chairman of the Council’s Recreation, Amenity and Cultural Committee." using the logic employed by this gentleman quoted in the article above, if I insure my car I shouldn't be expected to tax it as well.

"I paid ye the wan yoke, why are ye exshpetin' me to pay ye a second yoke? For fecksake isn't it all goin' inta the wan pot in anyways a mhaicin? Haw?"

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