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Alcohol strategy

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    #32
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    They were people imbibing alcohol all around SpanishArch, river bank, Raven's Terrace last night.
    Garda chose not to enforce it.
    Tis a disgrace


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    #33
    Redhairedguy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Redhairedguy


    The seagulls do enough enforcing... They're a terror since they got the beak for Buckfast... :pac:


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    #34
    ben.schlomo
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    Redhairedguy wrote: »
    The seagulls do enough enforcing... They're a terror since they got the beak for Buckfast... :pac:

    Beakfast??


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    #35
    Redhairedguy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Redhairedguy


    Jesus... I deserved that one...

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    #36
    [Deleted User]
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    I was having a few sociable cans with friends down at Woodquay, by the water, on one of the sunnier days. We weren't causing harm and just enjoying the sunshine. Next a couple of bicycle Gardaí come down and move on some teenagers (there must have been dozens of them!), but they didn't say anything to my friends and I.

    This should be the alcohol strategy - not to have a carpet ban on it, because we all know what occurred during Prohibition era America, but instead to monitor it better.


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    #37
    Robbo
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    This should be the alcohol strategy - not to have a carpet ban on it, because we all know what occurred during Prohibition era America, but instead to monitor it better.
    Jesus, the last thing we need is a resurgence in jazz.


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    #38
    [Deleted User]
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    I bags being Al Capone.


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    #39
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Robbo wrote: »
    Jesus, the last thing we need is a resurgence in jazz.
    https://twitter.com/DiscoverGalway/status/748451753738248192


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    #40
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Turns out that the Garda cannot enforce the byelaws
    because
    because
    because the Council have not given them the proper notebooks. http://connachttribune.ie/gardai-have-no-notebooks-to-impose-street-drinking-fines-043/

    Ah what silliness.


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    #41
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Woohoo! Happy days for us street drinkers so!


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    #42
    thesandeman
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    That's mad Ted.


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    #43
    Wompa1
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    Redhairedguy wrote: »
    It's the old adage.. 'Some people just shouldn't drink'

    For what it's worth, I've seen little to no bother or messiness during this lovely stretch of fine weather, and I've been down the Spanish Arch area pretty much every day.

    Was there during a good stretch of weather. The state of the Spanish Arch in the mornings was pretty bad. I brought my brother in-law over. The people in the town treat it like a dump.

    Why not bring the litter with you. The empty cans are lighter than the full cans! They brought them to the Spanish Arch in the first place. Laziness and spoiled brat behavior.

    Don't even get me started on the rubbish that ends up in the water. There's more Buckfast bottles in the water than swans!


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    #44
    snubbleste
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    Chief Superintendent Tom Curley says street drinking remains a serious problem in the city, with ‘van loads’ of drink seized every week.
    Van loads of drink...where does it go?


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    #45
    MadYaker
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    Whenever the spanish arch is covered with cans and bottles the bins are also full to over flowing. If there was more bins people would use them.


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    #46
    MadYaker
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    Outsiders may think so. I remember when I came home to Galway after spending 2 months traveling around Europe, it was about 1am and it was like they'd announced the world was ending tomorrow and every just went nuts. I didn't realise how crazy Galway gets till I spent some time away in other countries.

    There wasn't even loads of fighting or anything, just people absolutely hammered drunk everywhere. Women passed out in the streets and people getting sick everywhere.

    I didn't experience anything like it anywhere else in Europe.

    You must have skipped the entire UK and Poland so.


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