On the beach near where I live you feel that you are in another world. Good also to see that the gentle eccentrics like this chap cycling home across the wet sand are still out there!
Here are some more pictures of Blackrock Park, which so shocked me when I came back from Qatar. It is clear that some attempts have been made by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown to clean up the graffiti (the Martello tower is pristine), but why didn’t they start with the bandstand and the children’s playgrounds, which even if you think grafitti is art, should surely be kept clean? As you can see below, the wall around the traveller’s halting site was cleaned up but Grift and his pals have come back again.
See above for a visible obscenity which the council says it will will always remove immediately. This one is written by some idiot with a can of silver paint, and is just about visible on this pic. Remove it, DLR! Even better, get the lads who did this (since you do know who they are) and make them paint it over.
This is on the Rock Road. We used to live in a nice area, with a nice park until the young vandals started wrecking the park and the old vandals like Mr Michael McNamara decided to buy up every spare piece of ground they could find. Now we are invaded by cranes. They fancy they’re turning our area into the Knightsbridge of Dublin. It’s more like Ballymun part deux. But they’re “entrepreneurs” so of course everything they do is wonderful.
Unfortunately, the Martello Tower is again defiled. The only solution would be to put a wire fence about three inches from the surface.