While working from my room near the threadneedle junction I heard some shouting outside.
Looked out my window and it was a guy on a bike and a guy in a lorry. I hear the guy in the lorry shout “fuck off back to your own country you immigrant”.
When the man on his bike has his back turned he then jumps out the lorry and kicks the man to the ground, picks his bike up and throws it at the man he just kicked to the ground and continues to deliver kicks and punches to the man initially on the bike while he’s on the ground.
When bikeman gets up, lorryman grabs his shirt over his head and starts again continuously punching bikeman in the head.
I ran downstairs to see another man had got out of his car to break up it and lorryman keeps throwing cheap shots at bikemans head when they’re being separated and finally shouts “fuck off home you foreigner” before getting in the lorry. Absolutely fucking vile behavior. Regardless of what that man on the bike may have said I can’t think of anything that warrants the level of a beating he suffered from mere words.
I rang the guards to try report it but the woman in Mill Street refused to listen to what I was reporting unless I went down the station or called a car out, despite the man in the lorry driving away and despite the fact I had to go back to work.
I went back up to my room pretty disheartened and checked my work laptop before looking out the window again. Seen bikeman on the path on his phone, and again ran outside to ask was he okay and tell him I could give a witness statement if needed. He had already began cycling the opposite direction towards the roundabout so I didn’t get to speak to him.
I’m considering going to the Garda station about this tomorrow as I have written descriptions and have a time stamp and exactly location of the incident. If the person who was attacked didn’t report it, am I pissing against the wind? I find the guards to be pretty useless from my own personal experience the best of times, I don’t have too much faith in them for this one.
I’m actually all for it and would imagine it would cut out a decent amount of car trips. Knocknacarra alone has a population of over 22,000. How many of those are heading into the city centre or to the east side of Galway for work or study? And the same in the opposite direction. If there was a reliable light rail option there I think many would be happy to leave their car at home.
Chances of seeing a spade in the ground any time soon? Minimal I’d say.
They’d genuinely be as well off extending it between Barna and Oranmore if they’re gonna do Knocknacarra to Parkmore. You’re probably only addressing 20% of the main tailbacks by ignoring the lucrative Clifden to Furba traffic.
Barna must be the most overrated place to live in Ireland. It’s a kip, there are no walks other than the pier, the road to it is awful and it’s not served by public transport worthy of the name.
The public transport situation is dire. A good few Ukranian neighbours have missed work in the last few months because the 424 is full by the time it gets from Spidéal to Furba. They probably need to increase the current bus route by 5x just to meet the non-cager demands as things stand. It’s such an easy fix, would make money but yet the powers that be couldn’t give a fuck.
If you rely on the 424 for a job that starts at 9 in town you won’t be working at that job for long.
Galway’s population has rocketed to almost 278,000 – marking close to a fifty per cent increase in residents over the past quarter century, a trend well ahead of the national average.
That’s according to a new report from the Western Development Commission, tracing trends on the region over its own lifetime – showing a 35 per cent increase in the region’s population as a whole.
The report also reveals that an area once blighted by disadvantage and emigration is now exuding life in a wide range of developments, both social and economic, with average disposable income now doubled and every second person with a university degree.
The percentage increase in population in Galway, at 47.1 per cent, exceeds that 42 per cent rate of population growth in the State over that same 25-year period albeit that the overall population growth in the region is seven per cent behind that national average.
Galway’s population jump of 89,000 brings it to 277,737, over 110,000 ahead of Donegal’s 167,000, followed by Mayo’s 138,000 and Clare’s 128,000. Roscommon and Sligo have populations of just over 70,000 and Leitrim’s population is just over 35,000.
All of that means that there are 886,385 people living in the counties of Connacht, Clare and Donegal now – up from 657,000 a quarter century ago. That equates to 17.2 per cent of the total population of the Republic of Ireland.
Would be a brilliant addition to the city. Please god, we’ll live to see it happen. @Diabhal is right, they may as well extend it from Barna to Oranmore while they’re at it.
I hate the Silver Strand. There’s just something about the place that gives me the heebie jeebies, whether it’s the dangerous turn to get onto the lane that leads down to it, or the fenced off collapsing cliff, or having to walk past people sitting in parked cars looking straight at you, or the way the tide can turn and come right up to the wall, or the rocks. There’s just something ominous and foreboding about the place.
