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The mess on the Grand Canal

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    #182
    kingofclay
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭kingofclay


    We're not an outside people it seems, people want people housed in dark bars and pubs, god forbid people would enjoy a drink in a communal outside area. I wouldn't be so sure though. Nothing about it online


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    #183
    OldMrBrennan83
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    #184
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    It's gone now but the Instagram story yesterday for both The Barge (the location, not the bar itself) and Portobello Harbour up the canal a bit showed big crowds of sessionheads :cool:

    EDIT #2: the photo I posted was actually from May 25 2017, not 2018 :o Will try to source proper evidence as there was definitely a crowd on the story for Sunday!


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    #185
    Turpentine
    Registered Users Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Turpentine


    theyoungchap wrote: »
    People who live there (and I am one) are entitled to a clean environment regardless of the weather, and don't deserve to have to endure a canal stinking of urine and a mess of bottles and take away cartons just because there is a bit of fine weather. This is personal responsibility, not the corporations.

    Anyway it is all academic, the session is over from what I've seen. Good riddance.
    mattser wrote: »
    Lads, ye're talking to the great unwashed it seems. They blame Tom, Dick, and Harry, but pardon the clowns responsible for this blight on the city.

    The canal will certainly look prettier to me on a sunny day, if indeed the mob have been properly evicted.

    Far more important that the authorities dispersed them, than waste our money on extra bins that they wouldn't even use.

    Job well done.

    Over and out.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P65V-cst6TY


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    #186
    hatrickpatrick
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    Ok, this one is a screenshot from yesterday's Instagram story (mods: that means it's shared publicly for the world to see and I've blacked out the name and profile pic of the user who uploaded it) at The Barge, so a photo taken either Sunday or Monday - looks like we're back in business folks :cool:

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    #187
    showpony1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,448 ✭✭✭showpony1


    theyoungchap won't be happy about that roaring piss up


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    #188
    theyoungchap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭theyoungchap


    Well this is the ultimate example of "be careful where you get your news from" / FAKE NEWS. The crowd was tiny, and when the crowd gets big the Gardai are just moving everybody on.
    The few who are around are no problem. The place can cope with the numbers and there is no sign of a mess.
    Still think we should have a pfand/deposit scheme.


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    #189
    heebusjeebus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭heebusjeebus


    Ya, the bouncers in the barge were not letting people over to the canal with pints.
    Everyone drinking by the canal were drinking cans.
    It was mobbed down by portobello again and the bins were overflowing this morning again. Broken bottles everywhere :(


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    #190
    showpony1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,448 ✭✭✭showpony1


    so its fine to go to Portobello with the cans, why are they saying specifically can't across from the barge if theres a big crowd


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    #191
    heebusjeebus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭heebusjeebus


    showpony1 wrote: »
    so its fine to go to Portobello with the cans, why are they saying specifically can't across from the barge if theres a big crowd

    Dunno. I suppose they can only try to control pub patrons with drinks bought in the pub.
    It's up to the Gardai to move on people drinking cans or bottles bought from an off-licence.


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    #192
    [Deleted User]
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    showpony1 wrote: »
    so its fine to go to Portobello with the cans, why are they saying specifically can't across from the barge if theres a big crowd

    Possible insurance issues with glasses being broken etc. if they buy in the pub, they are expected to stay within the pub boundaries.


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    #193
    showpony1
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Possible insurance issues with glasses being broken etc. if they buy in the pub, they are expected to stay within the pub boundaries.

    yeah I mean going to the canal across from the barge though with cans, not with drinks from the barge. it seems odd the gardai only care about that section across from barge but not further down Portobello


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    #194
    [Deleted User]
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    showpony1 wrote: »
    yeah I mean going to the canal across from the barge though with cans, not with drinks from the barge. it seems odd the gardai only care about that section across from barge but not further down Portobello

    I’ve seen the Gardai talking to drinkers further up.


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    #195
    kingofclay
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭kingofclay


    Absolute bollox. Absolute pure and utter bollox. I don't even go to the barge, I've gone like once but it's still absolute bull**** Put a massive bin the vicinity over a good spell of weather and the problem will go away.


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