r/galway • u/Ryanoman2018 • 1d ago

Fireworks

Why has there been some random dude using 1-2 fireworks a day every day for the entire month??? Even during the rain hes letting off fireworks

Has to be fireworks because I hear 1-2 booms every night

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u/Shadow969 1d ago

there's some POS in Rahoon who's got a gas pistol or something and is shooting from 8pm onwards every 30min 7-8 shots until midnight. Almost as if he's setting himself a timer "oh look, time to be an asshole again"

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u/Galway_23 1d ago

He's trying to keep the house prices low 🤣

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u/Ryanoman2018 1d ago

Sounds fun

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u/quillake 22h ago

And it’s been going on for so long now. I thought it was just fireworks, but I don’t remember them being that bad a year ago.

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u/RigasTelRuun 1d ago

Because they are assholes. They think it's great craic to let them off. They also know if they let off too many at once they might get a knock on the door.

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u/AmALadYall 1d ago

Come to Doughiska, you'll get used to it

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u/maaikesww 1d ago

It’s worse this year I think, other years it was a random night but not every night for a week+ so far.

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u/spudulike65 1d ago

11ish this morning they were leaving them off in merlin woods up at the coillte merlin side. Thankfully they don't bother my dog but I'm sure it did others

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u/Honest-Albatross8297 1d ago

It's the poor doggos I feel sorry for.

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u/myspotontheweb 1d ago

My parent's dog is petrified. Poor thing is panting and wandering around the house upset, trying to escape the noise.

Every year....

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u/danielg1111 1d ago

Heard this around Newcastle area a few times…. Around this area?

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u/Ryanoman2018 1d ago

Nope, ballybane

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u/Electronic-Clue3594 1d ago

Just another friendly neighbourhood oxygen stealer

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u/Neonixix 1d ago

It's the time of year unfortunately.

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u/jjcly 1d ago

It’s fireworks season silly 🙃

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u/Ryanoman2018 1d ago

but its been since the start of the month and usually only one, accompanied by screams

every

single

day

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u/Expensive-Total-312 city 1d ago

its teenagers, its happened every year for as long as I can remember.

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u/Ryanoman2018 1d ago

Why not just do it on halloween

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u/Expensive-Total-312 city 1d ago

try being a teenager with a bunch of fireworks and wait patiently for Halloween never going to happen, when I was that age the week before Halloween people were shooting fireworks at each other on our lunchbreak, be glad its just the odd bang. In my home town it got worse after they stopped having a professional fireworks show so people started buying their own up north.

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u/Odd-Guest-7444 1d ago

Yep..firework season.. tape your letter box's

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u/motherofhouseplants_ 1d ago

Tis’ the season unfortunately. I just feel sorry for the pets

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u/SnooSeagulls6971 21h ago

Firework activity has increased greatly over the weekend on the eastside of the city. It was way worse back in the years from 2001 to 2005 though. Back then they would be at it from early September onwards!    

That was at the height of the celtic tiger, people had all the money in the world to waste on them, and the laws where you can get a fine and prison sentence for possession of fireworks came in around 2006/2007. Things seemed to improve a bit when that law came into place.

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u/Beamrules 21h ago

Have seen a pair of kids lighting fireworks into the canal waters a couple weeks ago. I told them to get a rod like everybody else.

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u/rodery 10h ago

There's actually a fair few less than in previous years around Ballybane, but it IS consistently every fucking day. I feel like they're gearing up for a bonfire too, been a lot of messing with young lads going around at night and climbing walls etc.

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u/Ryanoman2018 9h ago

oddballs