Cork City Council’s spent €19,770 for a dinner for Charles & Camilla along with 70 guests. In total €203,761. I have no issue with them visiting but I cannot stand over this type of expenditure when we have the high levels of homelessness, hospital waiting lists € much more. pic.twitter.com/WmaUK4SI6o
— CLLRThomas Gould (@ThomasGouldsf) December 11, 2018
Evidently.
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Did they install lighting for the whole city for the visit? How many lights would you get installed for €29.5grand? And how dirty were those offices that deep cleaning had to be done, as opposed to a quick dust and a hoover?
royal visit, royal prices, baby
All depends on who’s son is after getting the contract to supply them.
Installation of lighting: 29.5k
Lighting: 5.5k
Foyer Light 6.2k
Thats 40k on lights, and another 7k on electricians.
How many electricians to change a lightbulb, a feckin lot of its 40k worth of lights
Meh,Brenda doesn’t get out of bed for less than a quarter of a million.
500O grand for ” polishing door handles” I’m in the wrong job
I’m pretty sure that code for something else.
That amount only makes sense if they employed Charles himself to do the job
Ooh, Matron!
€5,936 or just under 6 grand
not 5000 grand.
yeah yeah you knew what I meant
Maybe it was expended on polishing a Royal Knob and a pair of Common Nockers:
I wonder, wonder, wonder who they hired the barriers from?
Selfserv
Did “Deep cleaning of offices” take place before…or after the visit?
that’s what the powerwashing was for – the scum of colonialism doesn’t shift easily
They could have hired Brother Barnabas’ Mam for half the price.
Polishing knobs is her speciality …
you’re only saying that because she’s black, aren’t you ?
Hard to believe youve been trolling under the same guise for over 6 years now, seoinin. When will it get old?
http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209757
The rebel county….hahahahahah
I did chuckle :)
Ah here, the prices are extortionate. Was there any tendering done?
€6,222 for changing the Foyer Light? Those long-lasting low-energy bulbs are fuppin’ expensive!
IT’S A GODDAMN FANCY LIGHT!
Yeer all just jealous. The City Hall is a beautiful building as befits one of the most fabulous cities in Europe. Probably THE most fabulous city, to be honest.
I’da polished them knobs for NOTHING for Cork, coz it’s CORK.
I am not trying to make excuses for others, but is this not part of the whole international deal? Official visits are covered by the host nation with, possibly, some recompense via the Embassy? Same happened with Obama’s visit way back when, if I recall correctly, although they did get his car stuck on the embassy gate speedbump :)
That was no car…that was THE BEAST.
And I love how every time a clip appears on t’InterWeb the boys of the secret Service take it down :)
On Liveline last week, there was a lady who was running a small cleaning company down the bog, who had a contract to clean a few Garda stations. Contract had to be tendered for again, the goal posts where changed, you had to have a million plus in liabilty, rolled districts together. Didnt even notify them that the contract needed to be renewed. Lost it to one of the massive Uk services crowd.
…ffs
Yeah. What happened to ‘shop local’?
Must have been broadband or something.
Less than 300 quid per head for a meal for actual royalty is probably not actually that bad, all things considered.
Yer laughing fishmonger feller down the English Market would have done it for free he had his nose so far up Brenda’s jacksie …
Royalty, pah!
Out-of-date concept.
Friends of mine holidaying there at the time couldn’t even enter Killarney National Park for three days.
I believe the cap-doffing was frightful.
We have to be tolerant and understanding of our closest neighbour’s quaint traditions.
I hate when all expenditure is evaluated in units of hospital beds or houses for homeless, there are other areas in which governments spend money, 200k wouldnt buy you a house in cork anyway, its a nonsense. that said i am sure some one made a killing in doing this work but thats should be evaluated on its own merits and not silly populism of dividing y hospital beds or nights in a b&b etc
They added decimal points on to that bill. Crazy expensive!
It’s interesting that Cork should be regaled as “The Rebel County” – there is the famous, “English Market” – and this? As some of the previous commenters mentioned, (I’m paraphrasing – where is the money for Cork?). I mean – a bill of 4 grand, euro, or sterling for polishing door handles? Of course, it’s quite the craft? I remember stories of yesteryear when my antecedants used to rub stones together and make fire. They would be so proud of these people who polish door-handles to make make them appear shiny for The English.
Amway did an excellent brass cleaner. Elbow grease not needed.
The Rebel County tag does actually relate to British royalty of sorts. It came about by Cork support for Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the British Throne in the 15th century and not as is generally assumed anything to do with the War of Independence.
https://stairnaheireann.net/2013/11/23/1499-pretender-to-the-throne-perkin-warbeck-is-hanged-for-reportedly-attempting-to-escape-from-the-tower-of-london/
As for the English market, it was thus named to distinguish it from the ‘Irish Market’, developed in the 1840’s. The former having been developed in 1788 by the ‘Protestant’ or ‘English’ City Fathers as they were then perceived.
Cork: it’s complicated.
Just whilst I recall, I thought I would put it out there of a “Royal Visit”. Princess Diana was scheduled to meet people of a town in Yorkshire – a certain family were contacted to say they would be visited by HRH. It was my friend’s mom ( a tv make-up artist – I only mention that, it’s how I know her) in her house. She lived on a council estate and spent £14,000 renovating her bathroom in case Princess/Lady Diana needed a pee. The day came and indeed Princess/Lady Diana visited my friiend’s mom’s house – she made tea – the £14,000 toilet was offered to the Princess – Lady Diana whispered into the mom’s ear, “Trust me, I pee like a stallion!”. She didn’t use the £14,000 bathroom.
£14K for a bathroom… 20+ years ago? That is £25K today[1]… or €27,500 for a bathroom
[1] that will be €9000 by April if Brexit goes through…
*includes 12-month contract for bathroom attendant, paid up in full day after visit
The Yorkshire people – what can I tell ya?
by guum!
The Yorkshire boyos used to be into drugs in a big way. They had their own brand. E-guum.
Paddies trying to do Yorkshire accents….
It’s ” eeh by gum. “
I mentioned that story about Lady Diana – the nice English are welcome. I gave her some 20ps for her meter on Kensington Church Street? I pretended I didn’t know who she was. She only had paper money – I told her, I’d see her next time.
I do love your stories Shayna.
So, they spend thousands sandblasted gates, and then decided to remove them for a few hundred.?
In fairness, Cork will have some fierce competition to be Ireland’s most royal friendly city after Brexit. Being relegated to the third most important would be hard enough like.