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A VILLAGE SUPERMARKET in east Co Galway made its way though almost a month’s worth of fuel oil the past week, as it fired up generators to open its doors to “queues down the road” of customers, in a region badly affected by power outages.
With so many households without power, McCormicks’ Mace store became a go-to for locals for food and other supplies – but the outages meant its owners had to resort to old fashioned methods to feed the masses.
“We were afraid we wouldn’t get the ovens to work with the storm, so my father Tony spent six hours one morning frying rashers for the deli,” said Barry McCormick.
“We went through an extraordinary amount of food.”
Tony opened the store in 1987 and this past week was likely the busiest it has ever seen.
The shop has been helping to heat babies’ bottles, as well as serving hot food. It has also supplied fuel oil to customers for their own generators and chainsaws, to deal with fallen trees.
“We remained open with the generators,” said manager Ciarán Bracken. “But there were queues out the door, there were queues down the road. There were people coming from 20 miles to get fed at one point.
“We did struggle for milk and products – everybody was hungry. We pretty much fed the parish and every person here.
One shop in the east Galway area had to resort to signage asking customers to obey ‘quotas’ for the number of cartons of milk that could be bought.
While such rationing was not in place at McCormicks, Bracken said the past week saw “incredible” pressure on supermarkets and shops in the wider region in terms of coping with demand.
McCormick and Bracken paid tribute to other local businesses who donated goods such as milk, coffee beans and hot food for the deli to replenish the supermarket’s stock.
“We all looked out for each other in one way or another,” Barry said.
The storm resulted in extraordinary disruption to many businesses across the west of the country. At its peak over two million mobile customers – 35% of the total – experienced some level of disruption according to figures released by the government this week.
It also saw 281,000 fixed broadband customers, 10% of the total, completely without services.
One of the ways the power outages affected McCormicks was by knocking out their credit card machines for payment, something many customers only discovered as they walked through its doors.
“You have to put your faith in people, hoping they pay you back – but you have to do that in this type of situation I think and just trust people,” Barry said.
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I’m a little confused as to how the jury bought a story of accidental killing – followed by dismemberment.. Accidents can and do happen, but surely cutting up the body would add a dimension to the situation that would veer a long way from “accidental”, I mean, dismemberment is pretty deliberate..
How on earth did he get away with that?
Yeah I don’t get that either , I wonder if he paid off the jury ? Or is that only in the movies !
He said he was trying to avoid any attention because of his previous case with his wife. Bottom line he’s a nut job.
He probably claimed that the killing was an accident and that he panicked and tried to hide the body in case he was later blamed for ‘murdering’ him. No previous, no known motive and probably claimed he was friends with the victim and that he was sooooo sorry!
Since when are RTE non entities given the titles of legends any wonder they go around with their heads in the clouds. Ive never even heard of this one.
Well she deserves credit for being the first female newsreader in rte. But a legend ? No .
Most women were able to read in the 1970′s! What had gender got to do with it?
Durst looks like a psycho
Well spotted.
He will get off again, if you have seen the doc you will see he wants to be caught, he seems to get a rush for getting away with it and has the money to do so.
Whatever happened to bibi baskin?
@Buckwheat
I think this article from December 2013 answers your question.
Apologies.
I forgot to paste the address.
http://www.businessandleadership.com/exporting/item/43849-bibi-baskin-to-talk-about-h
See talking to yourself… no good can come of it.
you can leave an Irish man all alone for 24 hours and what will you hear on a mic?
Sweet sweet silence
His defence team managed to convince the jury that the neighbor had let himself into Dursts apartment and had a gun,the neighbour, Black, was a well known aggressive troublesome person who no one liked, he convinced them the gun went off during a struggle but that he didn’t shoot him intentionally. Try watch the documentaries they explain it better. Why not show the lady now instead of her in 1975, or at least as well as…..?
Leg End or butt end or is there a happy end at all at all??
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