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easkey?
Diarmaid:
Hey guys,
I was talking to Caz on facebook tonight and she described the situation with the campsite to me.
The details appear to be:
Gents toilets boarded up.
Ladies toilets open, but:
one toilet has no flush handle
toilets are severely backed up
presumably, the rest of the bathroom is in a bit of a state too
The castle has litter and smells as if someone's gone potty in there too
The campsite has lots of litter and the remains of numerous fires.
It is out of the ordinary to have problems with the campsite on arrival, usually it's just the toilets that are nasty.
So some questions / items that come out of this:
1) Does anyone think it's worth moving? Does anyone know of anywhere better? (the only place I can think of would be Teletubbyland)... if Easkey is so trashed that it's not worth going, then we need to make alternative plans pretty sharpish.
2) failing that, can we organise the cleanup in advance so that we have all the stuff we need... there's no point in people showing up with black bags and bleach but no mops or buckets, you know?
3) is anyone a plumber or does anyone know anything about plumbing? how easy is it to fix a busted toilet handle? Even if we just take the cistern lid off and post up a sign saying to lift the stopper by hand, we should be able to get that other toilet working... I can't imagine 1 toilet for 150 people is going to work otherwise.
ps I know I'm not usually one for being gung-ho about or even participating in cleanup, but Easkey is a really nice spot and it would be a shame to have to spend the weekend somewhere that looks like Oxegen. I'll do my part, I've seen the rest of you often enough to know you all will too, but let's be organised and prepared about this, that's all.
Karen:
Easkey is so nice! Who trashed it!!?!?? >:( >:(
I'm not sure moving it is really feasible, given that other colleges and clubs come, you would have to spread the word and make so many people agree.
However, getting in touch with the other colleges mightn't be bad idea to get them to help. I remember rounding up some trinners last year and roping them into toilet cleaning.
JODY:
Trying to move the whole "event" of Easky elsewhere wont happen easily... anyway why go trash somewhere else? If its possible to get the facilities back up & running to some extent before the main crowd arrives that would be great.
Alternatively go somewhere else as a small group, maybe just UCD & Trinity??? Might be a good idea as it seems UCD get blamed for any crap that goes on in Easky anyway despite whether its down to teh club or not >:(
Diarmaid:
I think UCD has a tendency to overestimate how much UCD brings to the table. In Easkey, as in Kerry and Varsities (and lately even Colours, unlike back in the days when Trinity were douches :P ), the presence of the other colleges and the vibe that brings is, I think, really important. So I would say either we move together or not at all.
Also, we'd need to be moving to somewhere with nice toilets, because that's basically all this is about. So unless someone knows where that might be, moving probably isn't the option.
It just might be a suckier cleanup than usual this year.
kmck:
If there are no toilet facilites I would say I won't go. However if we could have some photos of exactly how bad it is we might be able to round up people to do a clean up.
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