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The Hole In The Wall

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    #32
    Bobeagleburger
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    Young people having fun. Good luck to them.


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    #33
    ANDREWMUFC
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    RoboKlopp wrote: »
    Young people having fun. Good luck to them.

    They just can’t seem to handle the drink. 2 pints and they’re falling on the road, screeching and roaring


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    #34
    skinny90
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    ANDREWMUFC wrote: »
    They just can’t seem to handle the drink. 2 pints and they’re falling on the road, screeching and roaring

    Are we talking about race week or...??


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    #35
    [Deleted User]
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    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    They've too much time on their hands.

    Having the craic is part of college! I did a massive amount of drinking during college and did superbly well, I do even more drinking in the many years since I started working though as I’ve a lot more money for it. Nothing worse than listening to dry sh1tes giving out about people have a bit of craic.


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    #36
    Bobeagleburger
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    ANDREWMUFC wrote: »
    They just can’t seem to handle the drink. 2 pints and they’re falling on the road, screeching and roaring

    That applies to older adults too!


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    #37
    beardybrewer
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    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    What about all the middle-aged suit jacket/jeans/brown shoes contingent that greatly outnumber any Rag Week crowd and wreck the city every single Race Week with vomit, piss and thousands of dropped chips?

    It's okay as long as they have a tediously long important business meeting early the next morning.
    ANDREWMUFC wrote: »
    They just can’t seem to handle the drink.

    Just jealous they're young and haven't built up a tolerance like us fat middle-agers.


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    #38
    sasta le
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    It’s one thing having the craic but acting like apes


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    #39
    Hoboo
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    If they're drunk and disorderly in public its up to the Gardai to arrest. If the HITW is serving underage again its the Gardai who need to enforce. Get on to your local TD or Superintendent. Don't blame the player as they say....


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    #40
    gordongekko
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    The thread makes a change from grass and cycling


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    #41
    skinny90
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    kweeveen86 wrote: »
    Yeah, NUIG cancelled Rag Week and who happily stepped into the breach? The Hole In The Wall!

    No they didnt :rolleyes: Big nights in the hole in the wall was always a thing...the same was type of craic for the river inn when it was a thing.


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    #42
    Mrs OBumble
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    Miriam Unkempt Tollbooth wrote: »
    Having the craic is part of college! I did a massive amount of drinking during college and did superbly well, I do even more drinking in the many years since I started working though as I’ve a lot more money for it. Nothing worse than listening to dry sh1tes giving out about people have a bit of craic.

    Lining up outside Hole in the Wall at 8:30am, and staying there to keep your place in a heavy rainshower is not "having the craic". It's just being stupid. As is denying the great damage which excessive drinking is doing to the health and intelligence of the nation.


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    #43
    Arghus
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    Sounds like a bit of craic.

    Most of em will be pretty busy now for the next few weeks heading into the exams period and then it's Christmas, which most will probably work through, let them have their fun. I walked through town today - as far as I could see it was still standing.


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    #44
    biko
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    Allegations that this pub servers underage people is serious.
    You should bring it up with the authorities, not use an anonymous internet forum


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    #45
    Mr Man
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    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    It's the 15th of freaking NOVEMBER. Not even Christmas month.

    College needs to make their courses far harder.

    Holidays are when they should be having blowouts, not during term time.

    So you would be ok with Donegal Christmas if it was the middle of December?
    The idea that students are drinking because their courses are too easy is also odd, to say the least; perhaps you were never a student?

    The source of this problem is social media. These things are just much easier to organize nowadays.


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    #46
    Happyilylost
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    Mrs OBumble wrote:
    Lining up outside Hole in the Wall at 8:30am, and staying there to keep your place in a heavy rainshower is not "having the craic". It's just being stupid. As is denying the great damage which excessive drinking is doing to the health and intelligence of the nation.


    Some people would say the same thing about people who queue up a couple of days beforehand to get concert tickets, sports tickets and such. Each to their own. Not sure the health and intelligence line has much relevance. Sustained heavy alcohol intake over a long period of time would. Drinking in college like most of the world do and have done over the centuries I don't think has that much bearing on their lives.


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    #47
    Mostly Harmless
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    Happyilylost wrote: »
    Some people would say the same thing about people who queue up a couple of days beforehand to get concert tickets, sports tickets and such. Each to their own. Not sure the health and intelligence line has much relevance. Sustained heavy alcohol intake over a long period of time would. Drinking in college like most of the world do and have done over the centuries I don't think has that much bearing on their lives.
    Not sure people have been at the current level of binge drinking for centuries somehow


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    #48
    xckjoo
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    They're in their late teens/20's. Let them live before they're up to their necks with responsibilities like the rest of us old fogies. It was at least as bad, if not worse when I was in college 10+ years ago. I would like to see alternatives being promoted as I don't think we've the healthiest relationship with drink in this country, but we can't exactly blame young people for that. They're a product of their upbringing.


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    #49
    Mrs OBumble
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    Mr Man wrote: »
    So you would be ok with Donegal Christmas if it was the middle of December?
    The idea that students are drinking because their courses are too easy is also odd, to say the least; perhaps you were never a student?

    It would be better.

    I was a student did computer science and mathematics, did not have either the time nor money for heavy drinking.

    And living in Galway city centre, I know full well that its not only two days of heavy drinking in the year. It's two publicised organised days, and many less structured ones.


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    #50
    xckjoo
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    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    It would be better.

    I was a student did computer science and mathematics, did not have either the time nor money for heavy drinking.

    And living in Galway city centre, I know full well that its not only two days of heavy drinking in the year. It's two publicised organised days, and many less structured ones.


    But I bet plenty of people you were in class with did and still went on to be successful and valuable contributors to society.

    Was time and money the only thing stopping you from being a raging alco? I doubt it somehow.


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    #51
    Arghus
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    Mostly Harmless wrote: »
    Not sure people have been at the current level of binge drinking for centuries somehow

    Yeah, it was probably worse.


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    #52
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    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    It would be better.

    I was a student did computer science and mathematics, did not have either the time nor money for heavy drinking.

    And living in Galway city centre, I know full well that its not only two days of heavy drinking in the year. It's two publicised organised days, and many less structured ones.

    I did Physics and electronics, lived at home, had a well paid weekend/summer job and had plenty of time for heavy drinking (without having any impact on my course) and had no problem affording it. Thursday was alwasy the big night out and we rarely had any college at all Friday as we were a small class and negotiated with our lecturers to do extra classes earlier in the week so I could drink like a fish Thursday night........ and do a days work in my job on the Friday to fund it :pac:
    Mostly Harmless wrote: »
    Not sure people have been at the current level of binge drinking for centuries somehow

    People did monstrous amounts of drinking in previous centuries. Clean/ safe drinking water was much harder to have so people drank beer all the time instead for example.


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    #53
    Mostly Harmless
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    Miriam Unkempt Tollbooth wrote: »
    People did monstrous amounts of drinking in previous centuries. Clean/ safe drinking water was much harder to have so people drank beer all the time instead for example.
    While alcohol has been a central part of European culture for centuries (and stats from pre mid 1900s are pretty sketchy), most informed estimations would say that alcohol consumption is at it's most widespread and highest than ever before in history, this is particularly true for the demographic of younger women.


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    #54
    Arghus
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    Miriam Unkempt Tollbooth wrote: »
    I did Physics and electronics, lived at home, had a well paid weekend/summer job and had plenty of time for heavy drinking (without having any impact on my course) and had no problem affording it. Thursday was alwasy the big night out and we rarely had any college at all Friday as we were a small class and negotiated with our lecturers to do extra classes earlier in the week so I could drink like a fish Thursday night........ and do a days work in my job on the Friday to fund it :pac:

    A similar situation to loads of people. Loads of students studied hard and played hard. I knew plenty of people who got firsts and now hold down good jobs, but who made sure to enjoy themselves too. This idea that students should be chained to their desks and never get an opportunity to blow off steam is ludicrous.


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    #55
    Mrs OBumble
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    xckjoo wrote: »
    Was time and money the only thing stopping you from being a raging alco? I doubt it somehow.

    Brains and self-respect played a part too.


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    #56
    Arghus
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    It's very easy to feel superior to others I guess.

    No doubt everyone else who did occasionally socialise have since gone on to lead shattered lives.


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    #57
    show me the money.1
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    Next you will be complaining about the 12 pubs of Xmas...


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    #58
    Arghus
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    show me the money.1 wrote: »
    Next you will be complaining about the 12 pubs of Xmas...

    A boards 12 pubs I reckon. Between my lack of brains and your lack of self-respect we should have an epic night!


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    #59
    show me the money.1
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    Arghus wrote: »
    A boards 12 pubs I reckon. Between my lack of brains and your lack of self-respect we should have an epic night!


    Ultimate 12 pubs a pint and a drop in each pub, €50 forfeit if you cant walk into the last pub with out help?


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    #60
    cooperguy
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    Mostly Harmless wrote: »
    While alcohol has been a central part of European culture for centuries (and stats from pre mid 1900s are pretty sketchy), most informed estimations would say that alcohol consumption is at it's most widespread and highest than ever before in history, this is particularly true for the demographic of younger women.

    Alcohol consumption has dropped by 25% in the last 10 or 15 years


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    #61
    LucyBliss
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    I'm not anti university students having fun on their designated theme days. I'm not anti adults having fun during race week. Fair play, I say, enjoy yourselves because life can be very crappy.

    But I get pissed off when I'm going about my business at 4pm on a Thursday, trying to make my way down Eglinton Street and there's whole bunches of students in Christmas jumpers screaming and shouting. I get pissed off when there's more groups along Woodquay when I'm making my way home at 9pm on a Thursday evening, doing much the same thing and acting the maggot because they're either off their heads from drink or close to it.

    And I resent being regarded as a curmudgeon when I see the city I live in, which has a lot to offer, being regarded as merely a party city for people to be vomiting in corners or shouting lewd comments at girls as they walk by.
    I resent that, on these theme nights, I encounter rude comments from inebriated people, who I assume are students because they look like students, as I walk my dog.

    This may be a university town, as was mentioned by someone else, but so what? Just because people come here to study, they get to do whatever they want because some pub is running a promotion and they want to party on a Thursday night?
    If people want to let off steam, fine. But it shouldn't be a thing that they take over or appear to take over the entire city centre. And I'm not interested in anyone using the races as a 'well they do it, so why shouldn't we?' because I'm not talking about the races. I'm talking about pub promotions aimed at students and people who go on benders and appear to want nothing more to have a good time and hang everyone else.

    Like I said, that pisses me off because people are trashing the city I live in, whether by words or dumping bottles or what have you. It's a whole thing where it seems that those of us who live here are just supposed to put up with it. Listen, I don't care if people think it's uncool to have a bit of civic pride or to have some respect for the place you live in. That says more about them than it does me.

    All I want is to be able to walk around where I live in relative peace. And if students want threads like this to stop, then maybe they should ease up on the cracked behaviour and not go mad just because some pub wants to make money off them with a new gimmick.


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