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A €14,000 SPEND by the gardaí on sandwich/snack bags for members was part of the overall €107,625 catering payment to the Donald Trump owned Trump Doonbeg resort in west Clare.
That is according to new figures released by the gardaí concerning its €11.3 million over-time operation put in place to protect US President Donald Trump during his two-night stay at his Trump Doonbeg resort in June.
The figures released in response to a new Freedom of Information request show that the Trump Doonbeg resort catering bill was run up through a series of ‘Marquee Banquets’ for the gardaí where they consumed a variety of meals over five days in June at the resort.
The bill for providing gardaí with sandwich/snack bags was €2,800 per day over the five days while gardaí also spent €875 on “additional teas and coffees due to inclement weather” on 4 June.
The contents of the sandwich bag are not known but a west Clare retailer which also supplied sandwich bags to the gardaí during the operation included a sandwich, a drink, a bar of chocolate, a piece of fruit and a bag to Taytos at a cost of €5 each to the gardaí.
The breakdown of the €107,625 total shows that over three days of the five day overtime operation Trump Doonbeg earned over €26,000 each day.
The resort was one of a large number of Co Clare hotel businesses to benefit from the gardaí’s catering and accommodation spend during the Trump visit.
The gardaí on overtime at various locations throughout west Clare had their breakfast each morning at the marquee at the Trump Doonbeg resort and the breakfast bill over four days was €16,800 or €4,200 per day.
The gardaí also had lunch each day at Trump Doonbeg and the lunch bill over four days came to €21,000 or €5,250 each day.
In addition, the gardaí paid Trump Doonbeg €21,000 for serving dinner over four days at a daily cost of €5,250.
The gardaí also paid the resort €21,700 for late night snacks or €5,425 per night.
The gardaí also paid Trump Doonbeg resort a daily room hire or marquee hire fee of €2,450 with the total cost from room/marquee hire amounting to €12,250 over five days.
Along with the catering spend, the gardaí paid Trump Doonbeg €5,976 to stay in a four bedroom ‘classic links cottage’ during the Trump visit. The duration of the stay is not disclosed for commercial reasons.
The numbers of meals provided to the gardaí was redacted in the information supplied and the Garda FOI Unit has decided not to release the number of sandwich bags/breakfasts/lunches/dinners and late night meals as the release could prejudice the competitive position of the various suppliers by making the cost per unit publicly known.
Asked to comment on the logistics of catering for the gardaí working overtime, general manager of Trump Doonbeg, Joe Russell stated: “We geared up for that entire week, as expected and it went very well. I’m proud of our entire team.”
On the performance of Trump Doonbeg in 2019, the long serving general manager said: “We’ve had a good year so far, a few concerns about where Brexit will take us next year but we remain positive overall on our performance and outlook.”
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Filthy animals, the people dumping their rubbish that is.
What’s a picture of the Minister for social protection or self promotion doing in front of this story.
Not proud of the thought, but have we become the litter capital of Europe. Just so bad here in Dublin..
I thought you meant the Dail for a minute?
…and put your garbage in a garbage can, people. I can’t stress that enough.
There is litter strewn from 1 side of this country to another in every town, village, ditch in the place. Nobody takes any pride in our place, and these same people then complain about rodent problems. Cause and effect? It’s up to everyone to take responsibility for their own litter. The sooner we all realise this the better. Its not up to the gubbernment to clean up after everyone.
Now they are multiplying more complex maths is next. It’s only a matter of time before they develop rudimentary computer skills and take over. Run I tell you.
What Mr O’Grady should be shouting about is why these filthy vermin are not prosecuted for dumping waste
We had a neighbour who fired her rubbish into a disused wheelie bin.. when it got too full she just threw it beside the bin.. and along came the rats.. horrible disgusting animals..
So let me get this straight…
- people refuse to pay to get their rubbish collected
- people then complain when rats start multiplying on piles of rubbish…
Then Councillor calls on Council, of which he is a member, to “do something”…
Shotguns, lots of shotguns.
Terriers …
C4
I thought this was just a load of exaggeration until I saw them doing The Siege Of Ennis outside the cathedral
Interesting rats do not sweat. Rats’ front teeth grow 4½ to 5½ inches each year and a pair of brown rats can produce as many as 2,000 descendants in a year if left to breed unchecked. Rats usually just live 2 to 3 years and are quite intelligent. My cat has reached retirement age and has given up hunting so I often see rats and they are definitely getting bigger.
Slightly disappointed that he didn’t mean literally.
“Some people are unwilling or unable to pay”
Hmmm !! Where have we heard that before.
From the poor who keep getting hit with charges by a Taoiseach who thinks the minimum wage for a single person is 35 k. per annum is where !
The 350 Irish HSBC bank account holders?
Dublin?
“estates in Killarney are ‘dancing’ on top of rubbish piles”???? That must be some sight
A kind of…Tops of the Towns….meets Chicago musical number…is what I’m imagining!!
I taught the Labour party conference Killarney ended weeks ago.?
Get down on it !
Get down on it !
How you gonna do it if you really don’t want to dance!!!!
Get your back up off the wall…..
I assume it’s the Kerry Polka they are dancing.
Thought the might be doing a slow set to Ben!
It will all be sorted after the next General Election when Independents like Healy-Rae will hold one of the big parties to ransom and get a load of stuff for Kerry at the expense of every other county.
Of course till then people could just take some personal responsibility and bin their own rubbish and pay for it to be taken away like the rest of us…
Put them in the Gondolas and they’ll be grand !
I’m sure there’s a Healy-Rea there somewhere willing to don his Pied Piper outfit (and a cap of course) and rid them for ever.
Get that rat catcher/killer from that city in Pakistan he’s doing it for feck all!
Are they not practicing the set dancing for the annual paddy’s day drinkfest? Shame on them ……must be foreign rats here to get our dole money and steal our jobs as plague spreaders !
I taught the Labour party conference in Killarney ended weeks ago?
Ha ha
I love Roland rat.
Haeeeeeeeeeeen! !
No complaints from them when they can field one of them at corner forward though, is there. One year out injured & they’re already turning on the coopers in the kingdom, short memories!
The semi-final replay was an absolute disgrace from a refereeing point of view – I lost all respect for Kerry Football that day !
Put the Paddy Cullen episode into a whole new light for me !
Joan burton and labour party must stayed there dancing around only thing there good at
I thought it was an old time waltz…
That rat looks so cute !
Surely that’s a good thing, another attraction to sell to the yanks…..
The first thing that shocked me when I arrived in Ireland was the refuse service. Maybe in Dublin it works better?
In France the garbage is collected every single day, by a public service, and the fee is ridiculously small compared to Ireland. If the garbage haven’t been collected for more than two days it is considered as a serious health and safety issue, and you can sue quickly.
When I saw garbage accumulating sometimes for one week or more without being removed, I just couldn’t believe it….
I immediately thought about the potential heaven for rats :(…. This is just not acceptable for a European country. And yet it’s very expensive for such a unacceptable standard! Something should be done about it.
The way people waste food these days, it is a wonder that rats can still walk?
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