Unfortunately the news on the graffiti in Blackrock Park is all bad – if you accept that local councils “haven’t the resources” to clean up graffiti, which usually appears after office hours.
In a country awash with money, the poor dears can’t find the few bob necessary for CCTV cameras on vulnerable sites.
After another trip through the park when I saw even more flat surfaces defaced, I came home boiling mad and phoned Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council as soon as I got in the door.
I got civil service-ese at its worst. NO attempt to clean up the wholesale defacement of Blackrock Park will be made in the near future. So we have to put up and shut up when it comes to this disfigurement of our environment, folks.
Here’s the good news: if a resident’s committee offered to do the job, the council would willingly offer advice, since some of the graffiti (eg that on the Martello Tower) is on old, fragile stone and needs special treatment.
But here’s the thing: we didn’t deface the walls in the first place. Get the gougers who did it and make them clean up their mess; let the punishment fit the crime.
Here’s another thought. The council will clean up any graffiti that is racist. Are council officials a race?
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