The free state. He’s takin @Dev’s shillin’ for the first time and he’ll fuckin love it.
Apartments in galway are generally shit pal. Just look for somewhere better and break the lease, easy enough come up with a reason if its as bad as i know many places are in older parts of town. You have to be comfortable.
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@Nembo_Kid, treat this mad aftertiming bastard’s advice with the contempt it deserves. The same chap tried to get Kev to move to Lucan at one stage if memory serves me correctly.
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Pal you pay through the nose in rent in warehouse skanger and yuppie enclave, just to try and fit in with the other bearded hipster gimps. Lucan is a hidden gem.
Galway city is a dangerous place to rent or buy a house. Like many ancient irish settlements, it’s built on a bog. From Oranmore all the way into Eyre’s square is bog. One of the largest estates built to cater for the growing population and NUIG student base, Dun Na Corribe [sic] is an estate of a few hundred houses built without a foundation, across from Dunnes in Terryland. The construction company O’Malley’s piled down but couldn’t find bedrock. They decided to pour a float of concrete and build the houses on this. They’re all crumbling since, and the homebond guarantee is over the 10 year limitation.
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lolz
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You can only imagine what sort of dump he comes from.
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Arent you from ringsend? Lucan is a fine place, few nice pubs, few good parks and green areas, zero jumped up pricks in suits and skangers which is all there is in d2 and d4. Good easy going middle class dubs which are a rare commodity.
Homebond 
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Another thing… 90% of the boom buildings in Galway used cheap as munster joinery windows which at this stage have warped and shrank and leave a savage breeze cutting through a place.
You could dry a line of wet duffle coats inside a set of their 90s range of patio doors.
And no landlord has the 10k needed to replace them.
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stop digging you dimwit
Jesus fucking Christ.
I mean Lucan village, I’m not talking about the non descript estates that are exactly the same as everywhere else in Dublin. I guarantee the majority of sheep on here running it down have never been there, and have only been to Liffey valley or through the n4 only. I lived in stepaside too which while nicer was just a dormitory town on the luas.
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Thank fuck you clarified. Carry on.
What they done out there bordered on abuse though. As for the lads who fucking bought the houses, holy shit.
@Nembo_Kid be careful of all this gung ho advice. It seems to me that you found a place quite easily. This is very unusual. A drawer or two falling apart and some shit furniture is not unlivable. Take a few days sussing out just how shit your apartment is before you walk out. Personally I’d spend a few quid on draught excluders and shit like that before deciding to up and move. The next place could be a lot shitter.
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Bunch of cowboys
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You could say that for anyone foolish enough to buy a semi detached in a cramped estate anywhere on the fringes of Dublin. Clonee and tyrellstown are way worse. No services, facilities, guaranteed crime. Utterly terrible places to live when you could add twenty odd minutes commute and live in straffan or clane.
FAO of @Nembo_Kid
Check this site out: http://www.threshold.ie/advice/dealing-with-problems-during-your-tenancy/standards-and-repairs/
A call to these guys could help.
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Would you avoid Munster Joinery in general or is it just a particularly cheap range of windows that they were knocking out during the boom? I’ve heard wildly ranging reports on them. I’ll be having to get a few windows and doors priced shortly and they are on the list to call.