Galway COVID-19, local news and discussion

ChewyLouie

TGO Falafel are locking up shop now too.

ChewyLouie

RicketyCricket wrote: »

Monroe's closed their live venue upstairs, have they closed entirely? Can't see anything online to confirm.

Confirmed now on their Facebook page.

inisboffin

Blue note closed too

biko

Saturday ghost town
https://thecladdagh.com/webcam/

MadYaker

Everything bar groceries, fuel and pharmacies should be shut already

MadYaker

MadYaker wrote: »

Everything bar groceries, fuel and pharmacies should be shut already

Considering some of those are among the lowest paid in the workforce e.g. Minimum wage in Joyces Supermarkets, personally, if I was a staff member I'd be saying to the bosses there's no way I'd be going near customers without PPE in the form of gloves and face masks.

JCX BXC

Why would you wear a facemask?

biko

To protect others from the brunt of your own coughs/sneezes.

biko

biko wrote: »

Saturday ghost town
https://thecladdagh.com/webcam/

OMG that’s batsh1t crazy quiet :eek:

empacher

Front door has being rammed the last three nights. Most pubs have closed for business for the next two weeks. This place isnt even sticking to the 100 person advice laid out by the government.

biko

Some people banned that were uncivil, posts removed to not trigger more bicker.
Please don't be next

thesandeman

Announcement due in the morning.

It could be an interesting St Patrick's Day.

JCX BXC

thesandeman wrote: »

Announcement due in the morning.

It could be an interesting St Patrick's Day.

Don't be vague or anything.

ben.schlomo

empacher wrote: »

Front door has being rammed the last three nights. Most pubs have closed for business for the next two weeks. This place isnt even sticking to the 100 person advice laid out by the government.

I'm led to believe they'll be closed from Monday.

ChewyLouie

From City Tribune fb page...

Statement from Tom McDonagh, Vintners’ Federation of Ireland Galway City Chairman:

Since the government’s announcement last Thursday that all pubs and restaurants could remain open subject to implementing social distancing guidelines, we as publicans have tried our best to work within those guidelines.
Over the past couple of days, it has become obvious that keeping a safe distance between customers is extremely difficult to achieve, therefore we are recommending to our members to close all Galway city pubs today for the next two weeks to protect our staff and customers as the nation battles Coronavirus.

saabsaab

JCX BXC wrote: »

Why would you wear a facemask?

Several reasons.


To reassure the customers that you won't easily pass on the virus
That steps are being taken to limit transfer
To protect the person wearing it and consequently the customer
Used with gloves and sanitizer should be effective.

grbear

ChewyLouie wrote: »

From City Tribune fb page...

Statement from Tom McDonagh, Vintners’ Federation of Ireland Galway City Chairman:

It's the right thing to do but it's hard to believe that they aren't trying to get the statement out there before the government acts decisively on this issue in the next 24 hours.
Their workers need to be taken care of.

zell12

Restaurants, cinemas, cafes, theatres
any update on those?

ben.schlomo

zell12 wrote: »

Restaurants, cinemas, cafes, theatres
any update on those?

All IMC's are closed.

amandstu

ben.schlomo wrote: »

All IMC's are closed.

IMC? ah ,I see the cinema chain

Ashleigh1986

Renmore community center has seen a lot of activity this morning .
Looks like it's going to be used as a " test center " for virus .
A couple of rapid response cars parked up at rear of gym next door .

cfeeneyinterior

Just passed Kai and dela restaurants and they usually do mad business on a Sunday morning for brunch. Anyways.... They're packed today too. Come on

saintsaltynuts

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ax530

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

Just passed Kai and dela restaurants and they usually do mad business on a Sunday morning for brunch. Anyways.... They're packed today too. Come on

I saw Dela announcement that they closed

MadYaker

A load of smaller independant restaurants and cafes will go bust over this. They can't afford to just shut up shop for weeks. The council needs to freeze rents for a while.

Addle

Everyone is in the same boat.
If they don’t shut up shop for a few weeks, then they’ll directly and indirectly lose a lot of prospective customers to this virus, and shut up shop eventually anyways.

GerardKeating

MadYaker wrote: »

The council needs to freeze rents for a while.

Council don't control rents, unless you mean rates?

cfeeneyinterior

ax530 wrote: »

I saw Dela announcement that they closed

Yea, closing after lunch. Fair play to them

McGiver

youngrun wrote:

What s wrong with that Normal behaviour This crisis seems designed to force changes in human behaviour Very odd and Orwellian or worse dystopian

Riiiiiiiight. Global conspiracy.

McGiver

MadYaker wrote:

More than a thousand people have died in Italy in the last week because they ignored this just like most of Ireland is ignoring it now. We’re about 2 weeks behind them.

Yes.

If you look a the data from the Italy...

26 Feb - 80 cases
14 Mar - 20k cases

Ireland had 80 cases 2 days ago. We'll see in three weeks time. The lock down was a good idea.

ChewyLouie

ax530 wrote: »

I saw Dela announcement that they closed

Closing after brunch. Saw a few restaurants saying they're getting one last weekend of trading and closing up later today.

ChewyLouie

Salthill is hopping. All the cafes are packed with lines out the door.

Great day for a walk on the prom though.

_Whimsical_

ChewyLouie wrote: »

Salthill is hopping. All the cafes are packed with lines out the door.

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Well that's infuriating!
Particularly when like you say people can walk the prom on this gorgeous day perfectly freely and safely.

This is a very disturbing tweet by Philip Boucher Hayes. It's a worrying reminder no one is immune here.
A Dr on RTE radio this morning briefly discussed WHO stats until she was rudely cut off. One interesting point she made was that the median age of death is 57 years old. That means half of deaths occur above this age and half below.

That's worrying for everyone.

If you're in your 20s and out in pubs, thats your parents you're very likely putting at risk, not just your grandparents, it's also you, albeit at less risk.

If you're queuing up outside cafe's you're absolutely part of the impending problem.


https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1238904532039589889

Whereisgalway

Murty rabbits are closing aswell, the only correct decision in these times. People are idiots

biko

https://www.gov.ie/en/news/7e0924-latest-updates-on-covid-19-coronavirus/
There are now 129 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland

39 new cases confirmed
21 are associated with the east of the country
13 associated with the south
3 associated with the north-west
2 cases associated with the west of Ireland

gordongekko

ChewyLouie wrote: »

Salthill is hopping. All the cafes are packed with lines out the door.

Great day for a walk on the prom though.

I got a takeaway coffee in 2 different cafes in salthill and the trade was way down in both of them compared to a normal sunday. Both normally have queues and there was a load of spare tables in both.

The prom was packed.

Andrew00

Noticed a few lads drinking on the streets today whod normally be in the pub. This is what we have to look forward to

bcklschaps

Was in around town a few hours ago. All the pubs closed. Some restaurants still open. Soo if you are a mad lush I suppose you could get gargled on wine.

Pubs out in the county still opened. (I suppose less chance of big crowds swamping them)

marklazarcovic

Both warehouse gyms now closed until further notice,if Corona doesn't get me I'll be a fat fool again soon.

Mrs OBumble

bcklschaps wrote: »

Was in around town a few hours ago. All the pubs closed.

You didn't look hard enough.

Mcgettigan, Richardsons, the Skef, the Imperial were open. Barr an Chaladh were open earlier but had closed by about 3PM.

Shame on them.

gordongekko

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

You didn't look hard enough.

Mcgettigan, Richardsons, the Skef, the Imperial were open. Barr an Chaladh were open earlier but had closed by about 3PM.

Shame on them.

The skeff and the imperial are both hotels. I havent heard of any hotels closing just yet

Whereisgalway

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

You didn't look hard enough.

Mcgettigan, Richardsons, the Skef, the Imperial were open. Barr an Chaladh were open earlier but had closed by about 3PM.

Shame on them.

Why? Had they more than 100 people in the pub? Did they not adhere to the social distancing? Did you go in and check?

cfeeneyinterior

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Why? Had they more than 100 people in the pub? Did they not adhere to the social distancing? Did you go in and check?

Well they are all being told to.close from tonight and hotel bars too....
https://www.newstalk.com/news/covid19-pubs-asked-to-close-from-sunday-night-in-ireland-983397?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1584293980

Whereisgalway

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

Well they are all being told to.close from tonight and hotel bars too....
https://www.newstalk.com/news/covid19-pubs-asked-to-close-from-sunday-night-in-ireland-983397?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1584293980

Tonight is not today

cfeeneyinterior

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Tonight is not today

Sorry yea, they should all be open. Stop being a nob

biko

cfeeneyinterior, chill please

flazio

Has there been any discussions in the city's factories about whether they can continue to operate. Some of them would still be open now wouldn't they?

gordongekko

flazio wrote: »

Has there been any discussions in the city's factories about whether they can continue to operate. Some of them would still be open now wouldn't they?

Most would still be open and unfortunately some of them are basically the front line of attack against the virus. About 40% of the world ventilators are made in Galway.

Whereisgalway

gordongekko wrote: »

About 40% of the world ventilators are made in Galway.

Wow, hopefully one of the success stories

Wombatman

Who is going to work tomorrow?