Simple Pleasures

[Carnage]

Eyre Square has become very dodgy in the last couple of years and there's been a lot of trouble around Shop St. (the main street heading down toward the river) lately too. I've never had any hassle myself but I haven't been out in Galway for a while.

[ochoill]

A town that had a lot of character is losing it bit by bit, not to mention becoming dangerous to wander around by night.

Really? I've always found Galway safe enough - definitely safer than Cork, Limerick or Dublin anyway.

Have to stand up for Limerick here, in the past decade at least it has gone grand at night, nothing out of the ordinary for a city at least.  My wife had mentioned some stat a few years back about Galway having the highest number of sexual assaults in the country but I couldn't find anything online to back it at the minute.  Anecdotally at least it's the grandest here, I often walk it very late night, alone, poisoned, with headphones on (coming home from Dolan's or the jamspace usually lol).

[Caomhaoin]

'Grandest' is so limerick specific, love it.

Wasn't there a thread on MI about local expressions and sayings around the country?

[astfgyl]

'Grandest' is so limerick specific, love it.

Wasn't there a thread on MI about local expressions and sayings around the country?

That's a Tipp expression

[astfgyl]

Eyre Square has become very dodgy in the last couple of years and there's been a lot of trouble around Shop St. (the main street heading down toward the river) lately too. I've never had any hassle myself but I haven't been out in Galway for a while.

Am I fanning the flames by asking why exactly that it's supposed to have become so dangerous of late?

[StoutAndAle]

Have to stand up for Limerick here, in the past decade at least it has gone grand at night, nothing out of the ordinary for a city at least.  My wife had mentioned some stat a few years back about Galway having the highest number of sexual assaults in the country but I couldn't find anything online to back it at the minute.  Anecdotally at least it's the grandest here, I often walk it very late night, alone, poisoned, with headphones on (coming home from Dolan's or the jamspace usually lol).

Ah yeah - I wasn't saying any of the other three cities were overly dangerous - just that one could come up against a bit of hassle faster in those locales than you would expect in Galway.

[ochoill]

Have to stand up for Limerick here, in the past decade at least it has gone grand at night, nothing out of the ordinary for a city at least.  My wife had mentioned some stat a few years back about Galway having the highest number of sexual assaults in the country but I couldn't find anything online to back it at the minute.  Anecdotally at least it's the grandest here, I often walk it very late night, alone, poisoned, with headphones on (coming home from Dolan's or the jamspace usually lol).

Ah yeah - I wasn't saying any of the other three cities were overly dangerous - just that one could come up against a bit of hassle faster in those locales than you would expect in Galway.

Fair, and yeah in that respect I'd have been the same as you and thought Galway to be tame until herself gave me that other stat.  More stories of lads getting bust or robbed on stags up there too but again same craic, just lads telling stories so no idea how the stats actually hold up.

'Grandest' is so limerick specific, love it.

Wasn't there a thread on MI about local expressions and sayings around the country?

That's a Tipp expression

North Tipp Best Tipp

[astfgyl]

Have to stand up for Limerick here, in the past decade at least it has gone grand at night, nothing out of the ordinary for a city at least.  My wife had mentioned some stat a few years back about Galway having the highest number of sexual assaults in the country but I couldn't find anything online to back it at the minute.  Anecdotally at least it's the grandest here, I often walk it very late night, alone, poisoned, with headphones on (coming home from Dolan's or the jamspace usually lol).

Ah yeah - I wasn't saying any of the other three cities were overly dangerous - just that one could come up against a bit of hassle faster in those locales than you would expect in Galway.

Fair, and yeah in that respect I'd have been the same as you and thought Galway to be tame until herself gave me that other stat.  More stories of lad getting bust or robbed on stags up there too but again same craic, just lads telling stories so no idea how the stats actually hold up.

'Grandest' is so limerick specific, love it.

Wasn't there a thread on MI about local expressions and sayings around the country?

That's a Tipp expression

North Tipp Best Tipp

North Tipp only Tipp

[StoutAndAle]

I'm in wetherspoons here in Waterford and it feels like the old days. Drink cheap as shit and the place is packed. Buzzing. As soulless as it is, the cheap pints is enough to fill it up.

If this takes off, the Irish pub is fucked

The 'Spoons here in Cork is a fucking dream location if you, like me, just want to people watch and report it back on a local metal scene talkpage. I go there with my brother sometimes on a Friday after work for the first round or two and we just take it all in.

For example;

A few weeks before Christmas the brother says to me that we'll do our drinks now cos I was gone for most of December and January. Into the 'Spoons (The Linen Weaver is its given name but nobody in Cork uses it). Open the front door - there's a lad about 19 or 20 years old sitting on a stool in the way of us getting in.

"ID please."

I shoot the brother a look - I'm 41 and he's not far behind. But we'll play the game.

As I'm pulling out my driver's licence something crashes into the back of me. It's an electric wheelchair being driven by a lad who is fucking demented.

"Scccchusseee me" says the lad "I jhusst need to get passsht you dere, yeah".

"Are you not going to ask this cunt here for ID?" asks the brother "Or at the very lest breathalyse him? He's all over the shop there, look at him!"

"He was in here before" says the young bouncer. "Just out for a smoke"

"Clearly he was - the fucking STATE of him." says the brother.

"G'wan in, if ye're goin' in" says the bouncer.

Up to the bar - two pints - lovely.

The brother takes a long thoughtful pull on his pint as he surveys the scene.

"Over there, stools, quick" he says nodding in the direction of where the lad in the wheelchair and his pals are.

Everyone of this group of people is destroyed from booze.

"I SWEAR teh god now righ'... if that prick EVA' EVA' said somethin' like that to me... I'd tell him to stick his job up his hole. Fuckin' fool."

Oh good - it's a Christmas work do. In a 'Spoons.

"Have you fags, Robert?" asked one of the others.

"Nuh. Nuh fags" answers the lad in the wheel chair.

"Yew fuckin' do. Stop lyin'!"

"Nuh... nuh lyin'cha"

She goes in under his wheelchair to a little basket yoke and starts rooting around.

"Fugg off!" roars Robert

"Shu'up you, Rob" says yer one and keeps digging. All of a sudden a MASSIVE Huzzar vodka bottle is rolling across the floor of The 'Spoons. Robert's eye is drawn to it.

"Me boddle! Me boddle for la'hur!"

"Shu'up, Rob - see I found your fags!" and she shows him a pack of cigarettes.

"Dere mine, yeh fucking tramp! Yeh fuckin' TRAAAAAA......"

On the 2nd evocation of the word "tramp" however our brave young hero, Robert, proceeded to puke all over himself and his snazzy Christmas jumper.

"HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Oh Christ! Oh Christ!" one of his group starts panicking.

"What'll we do?!" asks another one of them.

"Put on his hoodie over it! Quick! Before we're caught!"

So they shovel poor Robert into his hooded sweatshirt and start zipping it up over the puke puddle.

"Oh Jesus. I'm going to be sick meself here!"

As they're nearing the top of the zip, the aforementioned snazzy Christmas jumper begins to light up from underneath the hoodie.

"ME BODDLE!!!" roars Robert.

One of the party goes to retrieve the Huzzar and puts it back in the little basket.

"Shut up yeh big baby, yeh!"

And they go back to drinking. They were still there when we left about an hour later.

[astfgyl]

I'm in wetherspoons here in Waterford and it feels like the old days. Drink cheap as shit and the place is packed. Buzzing. As soulless as it is, the cheap pints is enough to fill it up.

If this takes off, the Irish pub is fucked

The 'Spoons here in Cork is a fucking dream location if you, like me, just want to people watch and report it back on a local metal scene talkpage. I go there with my brother sometimes on a Friday after work for the first round or two and we just take it all in.

For example;

A few weeks before Christmas the brother says to me that we'll do our drinks now cos I was gone for most of December and January. Into the 'Spoons (The Linen Weaver is its given name but nobody in Cork uses it). Open the front door - there's a lad about 19 or 20 years old sitting on a stool in the way of us getting in.

"ID please."

I shoot the brother a look - I'm 41 and he's not far behind. But we'll play the game.

As I'm pulling out my driver's licence something crashes into the back of me. It's an electric wheelchair being driven by a lad who is fucking demented.

"Scccchusseee me" says the lad "I jhusst need to get passsht you dere, yeah".

"Are you not going to ask this cunt here for ID?" asks the brother "Or at the very lest breathalyse him? He's all over the shop there, look at him!"

"He was in here before" says the young bouncer. "Just out for a smoke"

"Clearly he was - the fucking STATE of him." says the brother.

"G'wan in, if ye're goin' in" says the bouncer.

Up to the bar - two pints - lovely.

The brother takes a long thoughtful pull on his pint as he surveys the scene.

"Over there, stools, quick" he says nodding in the direction of where the lad in the wheelchair and his pals are.

Everyone of this group of people is destroyed from booze.

"I SWEAR teh god now righ'... if that prick EVA' EVA' said somethin' like that to me... I'd tell him to stick his job up his hole. Fuckin' fool."

Oh good - it's a Christmas work do. In a 'Spoons.

"Have you fags, Robert?" asked one of the others.

"Nuh. Nuh fags" answers the lad in the wheel chair.

"Yew fuckin' do. Stop lyin'!"

"Nuh... nuh lyin'cha"

She goes in under his wheelchair to a little basket yoke and starts rooting around.

"Fugg off!" roars Robert

"Shu'up you, Rob" says yer one and keeps digging. All of a sudden a MASSIVE Huzzar vodka bottle is rolling across the floor of The 'Spoons. Robert's eye is drawn to it.

"Me boddle! Me boddle for la'hur!"

"Shu'up, Rob - see I found your fags!" and she shows him a pack of cigarettes.

"Dere mine, yeh fucking tramp! Yeh fuckin' TRAAAAAA......"

On the 2nd evocation of the word "tramp" however our brave young hero, Robert, proceeded to puke all over himself and his snazzy Christmas jumper.

"HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Oh Christ! Oh Christ!" one of his group starts panicking.

"What'll we do?!" asks another one of them.

"Put on his hoodie over it! Quick! Before we're caught!"

So they shovel poor Robert into his hooded sweatshirt and start zipping it up over the puke puddle.

"Oh Jesus. I'm going to be sick meself here!"

As they're nearing the top of the zip, the aforementioned snazzy Christmas jumper begins to light up from underneath the hoodie.

"ME BODDLE!!!" roars Robert.

One of the party goes to retrieve the Huzzar and puts it back in the little basket.

"Shut up yeh big baby, yeh!"

And they go back to drinking. They were still there when we left about an hour later.

      

It has that shit written all over it!

Please tell me that you are considering some sort of career as a reporter or critic, you'd be fuckin brilliant at it

[ochoill]

    this just makes me want to go there even more!

[Carnage]

Eyre Square has become very dodgy in the last couple of years and there's been a lot of trouble around Shop St. (the main street heading down toward the river) lately too. I've never had any hassle myself but I haven't been out in Galway for a while.

Am I fanning the flames by asking why exactly that it's supposed to have become so dangerous of late?

Fighting, muggings, pissheads falling around the place looking for fights - the usual shite.

Eyre Sq. in particular, it's badly lit, rarely policed. There's a big Supermac's at the top that's a wanker magnet when pubs are letting out, lots of trouble there. A student lost an eye there a few years back, someone launched a firework into her face. A friend of mine runs a pub just off it, has had loads of requests from the Gardy for CCTV footage from outside.

It's all gotten more common in the last few years, for whatever reason.

[astfgyl]

Eyre Square has become very dodgy in the last couple of years and there's been a lot of trouble around Shop St. (the main street heading down toward the river) lately too. I've never had any hassle myself but I haven't been out in Galway for a while.

Am I fanning the flames by asking why exactly that it's supposed to have become so dangerous of late?

Fighting, muggings, pissheads falling around the place looking for fights - the usual shite.

Eyre Sq. in particular, it's badly lit, rarely policed. There's a big Supermac's at the top that's a wanker magnet when pubs are letting out, lots of trouble there. A student lost an eye there a few years back, someone launched a firework into her face. A friend of mine runs a pub just off it, has had loads of requests from the Gardy for CCTV footage from outside.

It's all gotten more common in the last few years, for whatever reason.

I honestly thought it was going to be Arabs. My bad 

[astfgyl]

    this just makes me want to go there even more!

That's the general vibe I was banging on about but with extra kids

[Ollkiller]

Live in cork now and lived in Galway before. There would be more chance of a scrap in galway than cork. Especially round eye square some nights. Found galway pretty awful to live in. The traffic is outrageous and found it way easier to make friends in cork. Galway is grand for a weekend. Thata about it for me. Limerick is miles better that about 10 years ago. I find cork very safe anyway. And just way more options for music and the likes.