Christmas market 2016

Bobeagleburger

It's been excellent as always. Hopefully it's back next year again

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Anyone know when the market is going or is it gone already?

Digital Solitude

Thursday

beardybrewer

Galway_Old_Man wrote: »

The grass roots campaign by people standing up against Big Business was great. First real victory. The growing dissatisfaction with it is the great dawning awareness.

Sorry, what are you saying there? Are you happy about it being worse this year?

ben.schlomo

beardybrewer wrote: »

Sorry, what are you saying there? Are you happy about it being worse this year?

Dont feed.

Mrs OBumble

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Dont feed.

Ahh, but it's such fun ...

Galway_Old_Man

beardybrewer wrote: »

Sorry, what are you saying there? Are you happy about it being worse this year?

I'm happy that the grass has been spared. That a private company has been denied the right to destroy public lands. And that it's the first victory in eventually bringing down the global, elitist encampment in the heart of our city.

Also I was thinking today about the Aldi hot-dog sellers. Today at work, a guy made the mistake of mixing them up with our beloved Charcoal Grill. We've seen in this thread one of the posters try and push this falsehood in trying to claim that the cowboys are indeed local. I think we should petition the council to ensure that whoever is there next year, doesn't dare appropriate the names and reputation of good Galway people and businesses. Hydra wears its masks of convenience, but an informed mind sees through it all

Anyway, I'll be down the Real Market later. Hope to see ye there if there's any money left over from the gouging in the Square

Wompa1

Galway_Old_Man wrote: »

I'm happy that the grass has been spared. That a private company has been denied the right to destroy public lands. And that it's the first victory in eventually bringing down the global, elitist encampment in the heart of our city.

Also I was thinking today about the Aldi hot-dog sellers. Today at work, a guy made the mistake of mixing them up with our beloved Charcoal Grill. We've seen in this thread one of the posters try and push this falsehood in trying to claim that the cowboys are indeed local. I think we should petition the council to ensure that whoever is there next year, doesn't dare appropriate the names and reputation of good Galway people and businesses. Hydra wears its masks of convenience, but an informed mind sees through it all

Anyway, I'll be down the Real Market later. Hope to see ye there if there's any money left over from the gouging in the Square

Did the people in the square use the name Charcoal Grill or tell people they were from Charcoal Grill? Otherwise, it's not their fault people are stupid.

Galway_Old_Man

Galway_Old_Man wrote: »

I'm happy that the grass has been spared. That a private company has been denied the right to destroy public lands. And that it's the first victory in eventually bringing down the global, elitist encampment in the heart of our city.

Also I was thinking today about the Aldi hot-dog sellers. Today at work, a guy made the mistake of mixing them up with our beloved Charcoal Grill. We've seen in this thread one of the posters try and push this falsehood in trying to claim that the cowboys are indeed local. I think we should petition the council to ensure that whoever is there next year, doesn't dare appropriate the names and reputation of good Galway people and businesses. Hydra wears its masks of convenience, but an informed mind sees through it all

Anyway, I'll be down the Real Market later. Hope to see ye there if there's any money left over from the gouging in the Square

Being honest, your attitude would put me off going to the "Real" market

TerrorFirmer

Yeah, to be honest, it's an attitude that's not doing you any favours. They're difference audiences, someone who's up for a few pints in the tent, a go on the big-wheel and a hotdog/burger afterwards could hardly be claimed to be being poached from the so-called "real market", so I don't understand this level of spite towards it. It brings people into the city, it creates a nice atmosphere, and people are more likely to wander downtown afterwards to take in the general festive atmosphere, which benefits all retailers. It's only a few weeks a year, not exactly a mafia extortion racket.

Mrs OBumble

Wompa1 wrote: »

Did the people in the square use the name Charcoal Grill or tell people they were from Charcoal Grill? Otherwise, it's not their fault people are stupid.

They have Chacoal Grill written in big letters on thier stall.

Personally i still believe theyre likely to be connected to the shops in town, even if the staff working the places are different.

ben.schlomo

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

They have Chacoal Grill written in big letters on thier stall.

Personally i still believe theyre likely to be connected to the shops in town, even if the staff working the places are different.

They're not connected at all. It's 'a' charcoal grill, its not a brand.

Whereisgalway

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

They have Chacoal Grill written in big letters on thier stall.

Personally i still believe theyre likely to be connected to the shops in town, even if the staff working the places are different.

In the word of the big man himself

_Puma_

Walk through Eyre Square every morning before the market opens and the stink from those burger stalls is unreal. Most mornings the place is crawling with Seagulls and those stalls are left open. Hope they give them a good clean down before they started cooking every day.

pure.conya

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Being honest, your attitude would put me off going to the "Real" market

Great.

ben.schlomo

pure.conya wrote: »

Great.

Superb contribution as always from yourself.

pleasant Co.

merry xmas to all, but being a prat is gonna see slaps[

Laviski

was up at the Belfast xmas market recently, and fair play to the organizers lots of diversity with some really decent non food related stalls, these guys know what they are doing in comparison to the joke of a market in galway for the last number of years.

through out the market nothing was repeated and the only duplicate stalls was two German sausage stall (that had a variety of different sausages with a better roll provided) and two beer tents (which server a lot more different/strange beers for example strawberry beer), before you say it was bigger, the space is pretty damm close to the size of kennedy park.

do it right or don't do it all phrase comes to mind when you look at the galway attempts.

BeardySi

Laviski wrote: »

was up at the Belfast xmas market recently, and fair play to the organizers lots of diversity with some really decent non food related stalls, these guys know what they are doing in comparison to the joke of a market in galway for the last number of years.

This year's has been the best in many years. They seem to have made a real push in the last 2/3 years to include lots of local traders after facing much the same criticisms as the Galway market in the past. They really struck a good balance.

Surfacezebra

Market Place Europe run the Belfast market. These are the same guys who done the first market in Galway but were forced out after the first year.Pity as they are pros at what they do.

pure.conya

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Superb contribution as always from yourself.

The way certain people have carried on trolling and taking the p1ss out of the normal human beings posting in this thread who just like the simple pleasure of sitting down and enjoying the park as the weather improves from March onwards tells me they're not the demographic the regular Galway market wants or needs.

Is that better for you

Boggy Turf

pure.conya wrote: »

The way certain people have carried on trolling and taking the p1ss out of the normal human beings posting in this thread who just like the simple pleasure of sitting down and enjoying the park as the weather improves from March onwards tells me they're not the demographic the regular Galway market wants or needs.

Is that better for you

I have to admit I don't really know why the undercurrent of this thread is so nasty and bitter (something to do with grass and/or prices) but in some ways it reflects some of the nasty attitudes in this forum for many years. I just hope it improves in 2017.

Happy Christmas everyone.

Laviski

well said, Happy Christmas and lets start again september 2017

if anyone should take piece of advice they should watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LwJUvNijw

Whereisgalway

Despite the negativity Looks like moving the market off the grass helped attract record number.

http://connachttribune.ie/organisers-say-christmas-market-drew-600000-visitors/

Mrs OBumble

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Despite the negativity Looks like moving the market off the grass helped attract record number.

http://connachttribune.ie/organisers-say-christmas-market-drew-600000-visitors/

More like the good weather meant numbers were high.

Bobeagleburger

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Despite the negativity Looks like moving the market off the grass helped attract record number.

http://connachttribune.ie/organisers-say-christmas-market-drew-600000-visitors/

No doubt some other excuse will be conjured up by the dooms dayers!

It's not perfect but it's popularity is growing.

Roll on next year.

Utopia Parkway

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Despite the negativity Looks like moving the market off the grass helped attract record number.

http://connachttribune.ie/organisers-say-christmas-market-drew-600000-visitors/

Can't imagine the grass had anything to do with it. So far we've had a very mild winter this year with little rain. Especially compared to last winter when it bucketed down on many days on the run in to Christmas.

Boggy Turf

Give it up children!

Whereisgalway

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Can't imagine the grass had anything to do with it. So far we've had a very mild winter this year with little rain. Especially compared to last winter when it bucketed down on many days on the run in to Christmas.

The Ferris wheel is credited as been a major draw.
The fact that it was off the grass means that the heart of Galway which has very few green areas now has a square that it can proud of

Arghus

The bitterest battles are those with the lowest stakes.